Re: [Tools-discuss] Idnits-2.16.02 feedback: -latest pattern

I would be in favor of the submission process assigning a number based on previous state. New documents get -00 and subsequent versions are assigned the next revision number. That way, the document doesn’t have to specify a version number.

Tom

> On Apr 6, 2019, at 12:43 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> Idnits should recognize the -latest pattern that Martin Thomson’s template uses and turn these four messages into one (or maybe even fix the fourth, because that very much can be figured out based on the pattern):
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
> 
>  Checking nits according to https://www.ietf.org/id-info/1id-guidelines.txt:
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  ** Missing revision: the document name given in the document,
>     'draft-ietf-core-multipart-ct-latest', does not give the document
>     revision number
> 
>  ~~ Missing draftname component: the document name given in the document,
>     'draft-ietf-core-multipart-ct-latest', does not seem to contain all the
>     document name components required ('draft' prefix, document source,
>     document name, and revision) -- see
>     https://www.ietf.org/id-info/guidelines#naming for more information.
> 
>  == Mismatching filename: the document gives the document name as
>     'draft-ietf-core-multipart-ct-latest', but the file name used is
>     'draft-ietf-core-multipart-ct'
> 
>  Miscellaneous warnings:
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  == Couldn't figure out when the document was first submitted -- there may
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>     work that could not be issued because of this.  Please check the Legal
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> 
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