Re: [Tools-discuss] Google Scholar not indexing Internet-Drafts

Several times, I've been asked to claim I-Ds by Google Scholar and have
rejected them. I doubt if there's an active feed, but if they analyze the
citations in a publication that cites an I-D, it will get into their system.

The fact that they point to a University of Auckland site for RFC8799
is direct proof that they either index the university's publication
repository, or that they index the entirety of repositories based on
symplectic.co.uk.

They do have some very strange things, though. With a little effort,
you can extract this citation:
@article{carpenter1994aeiou,
  title={AEIOU: Address extension by IP option usage},
  author={Carpenter, B},
  journal={Internet draft-carpenter-aeiou-00. txt},
  year={1994}
}

Regards
   Brian

On 30-Jul-21 23:35, John R Levine wrote:
>> Clearly, Google Scholar should be taught to find the canonical RFCs at 
https://rfc-editor.org/rfc - having many secondary copies is an SEO anathema.
> 
> Right.  I hope some sitemaps will help.
> 
>> Internet-Drafts, hmm.  Many are not arxiv quality, and we don’t want the 
>> I-D repository as a dumping ground for people who just want to get their 
>> garbage into Scholar.  But the main problem is that the references to 
>> the drafts will stay active even when the RFC has been published(*) (or 
>> the I-D replaced), so we should be very careful with what we offer under 
>> the URI that will be indexed.
> 
> I agree they're not what Scholar is looking for.
> 
> I'm not worried about people gaming it, you should be able to get anything 
> into Scholar if you put it on a web server with the right metadata, but 

> the last thing I want is yet another reason people will imagine that every 
> I-D is an Internet Standard.
> 
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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