Re: [Tools-discuss] nits version mismatch

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Sat, 17 May 2008 00:45 UTC

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Hi Sandy,

Inline:

On 2008-05-15 23:02 Sandra Murphy said the following:
> In a discussion of draft-ietf-l1vpn-basic-mode-04.txt for secdir, I 
> reported that that the nit checker showed 7 nits.  Adrian Farrell said:
> 
>> Hmmm. I wonder which nit checker you used.
>> http://tools.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ only reports one warning to me as a
>> referenced I-D has subsequently been published as an RFC.
> 
> to which I replied:
> 
>    I looked at the page:
>    http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/l1vpn/draft-ietf-l1vpn-basic-mode/
>    which reports:
> 
> 
>     2008-02-21 16:40 draft-ietf-l1vpn-basic-mode-04.txt
>    [txt/plain]  [txt/pdf]  [nits]  [diff -from-03, wdiff, txt]
>      (7 errors (**), 0 warnings (==), 0 comments (--).)

Hmm.  Right.  When I set up the script which creates that page, the
things that idnits checked were more limited, and in particular
the check result weren't dependent on referenced IDs later being
published.  I need to change the page to provide a link to a real-time
run of idnits.

...

>>  ** Downref: Normative reference to an Unknown state RFC: RFC 3471
> 
> Bug in the tool :-(

Hm.  When was this run?  There was a glitch where the RFC state information
was unavailable for about a day some time ago -- this might be from that time.
Otherwise I need more information to debug it.  FWIW idnits does not show
that warning now:

If you go to the html version of the draft, at
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-l1vpn-basic-mode-04
there is a link at the top right which leads to an on-the-fly run of idnits,
which a moment ago returned:

...
  == Outdated reference: draft-ietf-ccamp-lsp-stitching has been published as
     RFC 5150


     Summary: 0 errors (**), 1 warning (==), 0 comments (--).
...

> The RFC clearly states...
> Category: Standards Track
> 
> 
> And I volunteered to alert the Tools Team.
> 
> Hopefully, this is the right address to use for such alerts.

It is :-)

Thanks.  I'll change the static information on pages like the one you
originally used so that it will lead to an on-the-fly check, which should
be as good as is possible given the changing state of published documents.


	Henrik
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