Easier access to diffs, etc.

[Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]>]

On a related note, I've been wishing that the I-D Action announcement 
messages provided more convenient access to info about the draft.
A link to the diff with the previous version would be nice,
as would a link to the html version of the document in the tools area 
(which in turn has links to all sorts of renditions of the doc.)

I find that the link that is currently provided is rarely the one I 
want, so I'm always having to copy the name, and then search for the 
form I want. Its easier to just click. :-)

	Thanks,
	Paul

On 3/13/12 1:08 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:08 +0100, Benoit Claise wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm wondering how to do, with the IETF tools, a diff between a WG
>> document "RFC bis" and the "RFC" in the following example:
>>
>>       1. RFC 5101 was published
>>       2. And individual draft was published to update it
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-claise-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-02
>>       3.
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01 was
>> accepted as a WG document
>>
>> The tools
>> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01)
>> allows the diffs between the 2. and 3.. And I would like the automatic
>> diff between 1. and .3
>>
>> Any other ways than loading the different versions in
>> http://www.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/?
>
> As you probably know, the tools page for an internet-draft, like
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01
> includes links for jumping from one version to the next, and for showing
> the differences between the version you're viewing and the previous
> version.  When one document succeeds another, such as a WG document
> replacing an individual one or, in this case, the individual document
> being the start of a revision of RFC5101, those links inlcude the
> ability to jump from one document to the next, and to compare the first
> version of one document with the last version of the document before it.
>
> So, if you go to the page for draft-claise-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-00
> and click the "Diff1" link, you'll see differences in that document
> since RFC5101.
>
> As far as I know, there is no "friendly" way to click on something and
> see differences between two documents that are not immediately adjacent
> versions.  However, you can fairly easily edit the URL to get what you
> want.  Simply bring up the diff page for the later document, and add
> "&url1=XXX" to the end of the URL, where XXX is the document you want to
> compare against.  Acceptable forms include draft-foo-bar-00 and rfcXXXX.
>
> So, to see the differences between the most recent rfc5101bis and the
> original rfc5101, try this:
>
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01.txt&url1=rfc5101
>
> -- Jeff
>
>