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Re: [Tools-discuss] missing DC.Creator in some RFCs for HTML versions

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Tue, 11 December 2018 23:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] missing DC.Creator in some RFCs for HTML versions
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Hi Daniel,

I'll respond to all 3 DC\..* subject emails in one, as the response is
pretty much the same: The underlying code is quite old, varying from
10 to 15 years old by this time, and did not (and does not) have any of
the sophisticated data available which we have today through the
datatracker database.  It does not have the ability, for instance, to
differentiate between author sets for different versions of the document.

Rewriting the code today to fetch information from the database instead
would give much better results.  That's not on the table at present, but
is something I might spend some time on when all the xml2rfc and idnits
rewrite deliverables are out, and I've recovered.  Maybe in the spring.

However, with respect to author information for old RFCs and drafts, the
datatracker also has missing information.  In a different context it has
recently been discussed whether to try to manually fill in the gaps in
that information.  The format of early drafts and RFCs are sufficiently
irregular that I don't see anything but manual data entry as workable.


Best regards,

	Henrik

On 2018-12-11 21:24, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> A handful of published RFCs have an author/editor listed, but do not
> include any <meta> tags that identify DC.Creator.  They're listed at the
> end of this e-mail.
> 
> I don't know why they're missing, but it would be great if we could
> refresh these RFCs HTML versions so that they have the correct metadata
> elements.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         --dkg
> 
> published RFCs that are missing DC.Creator tags:
> 
>   rfc109
>   rfc206
>   rfc347
>   rfc571
>   rfc588
>   rfc616
>   rfc1465
>   rfc1591
>   rfc2070
>   rfc2201
>   rfc2279
>   rfc2634
>   rfc2886
>   rfc2901
>   rfc2941
>   rfc2946
>   rfc2953
>   rfc3117
>   rfc3296
>   rfc3305
>   rfc3564
>   rfc3619
>   rfc5540
>   rfc5941
>   rfc6207
>   rfc6262
>   rfc6414
>   rfc6604
> 
> 
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