Re: [Tools-discuss] Where are the IETF draft XML and TXT ?

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

> Your rsync list you have does not sync drafts that are not current, e.g.: expired
> or that have become RFC. Those where the ones i was primarily inquiring about.

Actually, it does (because it runs periodically, it syncs them while they are still current).
But I agree that doesn’t help if you haven’t been doing this for a decade or more.

> That full set of past drafts can be synced from
> rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.id.  Given how tools.ietf.org is likely condemned
> and/or maybe not maintained well anymore, i just checked:
> 
>  -  rsync.ietf.org::id-archive seems to have almost all the same files,
>     just missing very few.
> 
>  -  There is also rsync.ietf.org::xml2rfc.bibxml hopefully replacing 
>     xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org::xml2rfc.bibxml that you list below.

Thanks — these are useful updates for my list.
(Tools team:
It would be useful to have some documentation for what these are supposed to be, beyond the single-line summaries you get with
rsync rsync.ietf.org::
)

> And yes, you and i can use rsync, but do you think that should be the
> only choice to get to all current and past draft files ?

To get all drafts?  Yes, rsync is the choice.

To get any specific draft, say, in XML form?

https://www.google.com/search?q=draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-27+xml
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Grüße, Carsten