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Re: [Tools-discuss] Reference to NIST document

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sat, 19 June 2021 21:41 UTC

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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > The idea is so great Mark Nottingham has started something…
    > https://www.specref.org

oh, that's very nice.
It seems like the IETF should renovate to use that tool.
Still needs IEEE, ITU, ANSI, content, but that might not be hard to fix.

    mcr> This solves much of the stability and airplane problem if one has it locally.
    mcr> (I've often rsync'ed it)

    > A git pull is so much easier than getting an rsync right!
    > (And git also doesn’t resend data that hasn’t changed — some rfc editor
    > info gets new file dates for each RFC every day even without content
    > changes, which can be very time consuming even with rsync.)

Also, I can maintain a local patch on something that I find is wrong, and
then keep rebasing until it gets accepted.  (or I give up)





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