Re: [Tools-discuss] Reference to NIST document

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sat, 19 June 2021 19:47 UTC

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Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
    > When I look up the list of bibxml databases in
    > https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/, there’s a “Miscellaneous” section with
    > two links. One is broken, and one (bibxml2) seems to be outdated. In
    > any case it barely contains any NIST documents.

My understanding is that everything there is dusty, and will get renovated.

Since we mostly just *add* to these things, with rare updates/fixes, I wonder
if this isn't something that git{hub} wouldn't be good at?  I.e. if you find
yourself needing something else, you should add it to a copy you keep
locally,  and send a pull request.

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

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