[Tools-discuss] Idnits-1.84 feedback

I just ran a document through the idnits checker.  It produced some
unexpected results:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sieve-3431bis-04.txt

Output:

idnits 1.84 

tmp/draft-ietf-sieve-3431bis-04.txt:

  Checking nits according to http://www.ietf.org/ID-Checklist.html:

    Checking conformance with RFC 3978/3979 boilerplate...

  * The document seems to lack an RFC 3978 Section 5.4 Copyright Line --
    however, there's a paragraph with a matching beginning. Boilerplate
error?

    RFC 3978 Section 5.4 paragraph 1 text:
    "Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006)."

    ... text found in draft:
    "Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005).  This document is subject
............................................^
    to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and
    except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights.")

  * The document seems to lack an RFC 3978 Section 5.4 Reference to BCP 78. 

    RFC 3978 Section 5.4 paragraph 2 text:
    "This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions
    contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors
    retain all their rights."

  Checking nits according to http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt:
    Nothing found here (but these checks do not cover all of
    1id-guidelines.txt yet).

  Miscellaneous warnings:
    None.

It looks like the tool is checking for 2006 copyright dates now that we're
in 2006, but that will be a problem for documents that were written in 2005.

The BCP 78 error is interesting.  The text is in the document, but it exists
after the copyright notice.  Did the tool skip it because of the copyright
date error?

-Scott-

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