[Tools-discuss] Re: Making xi:include links to non-RFCs with bibxml

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Tue, 12 August 2025 13:31 UTC

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Well, again, if we could greenfield we might not have named them that way.

An alternate universe of

{name-of-bib-service}.ietf.org/reference.{unique-token-for-reference}

is enticing, but would the disruption to the large existing corpus be 
worth it?

RjS

On 8/11/25 6:56 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2025, at 07:42, Robert Sparks wrote:
>> There are better semantic names already in place, but the numbers are so
>> pervasive that they must work for the foreseeable future (even if, at
>> some point, via redirect).
>>
>> bibxml2 is bibxml-misc
> [...]
>
> Do these really need to include the string "bibxml"?  Is that some sort of brand name or trademark?