Re: Drafts getting bounced with little explanation

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Acee,

    This one passes, for instance:

http://ietf.levkowetz.com/drafts/eap/rfc2284bis/draft-ietf-eap-rfc2284bis-10.e.txt

For more information from the idnits tool, you can run it with
the --verbose option.

	Henrik

On Friday,  9 Jul 2004, Acee Lindem wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
> Can you (or somebody) point me to a draft that passes all the
> nits? I tried a draft that "thought" conformed to 3667/3668 yet
> the tools says I'm using RFC 2026 boilerplate.
> Thanks,
> Acee 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Henrik Levkowetz" <[e-mail]>
> Cc: <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 5:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Drafts getting bounced with little explanation
> 
> 
> > 
> > I've also run into one instance of a draft returned without explanatory
> > details, and it's quite frustrating.
> > 
> > One possible help in finding out what the trouble is with a particular
> > document could be to use the idnits tool I've written 
> >  ( http://ietf.levkowetz.com/tools/idnits ) - that should report any
> > ID-checklist violation that doesn't require human judgement.  
> > 
> > But it would be nicer and easier if the secretariat would just indicate
> > why it is bouncing a document...
> > 
> > Henrik
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday,  9 Jul 2004, Gorry Fairhurst wrote:
> > > This is frustrating, and I note that the ones that are not bounced do 
> > > not have consistent heading and ordering either.... :-)
> > > 
> > > Waiting 1-2 days to receive this confusing message is certainly not 
> > > encouraging to new authors/editors.
> > > 
> > > Gorry Fairhurst
> > > 
> > > Bernard Aboba wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Yes.  I had to compare my (bounced) draft to the ones that were getting
> > > > through and then submit new boilerplate.   I still don't know what exactly
> > > > was wrong, but they did get through after I copied successful boilerplate.
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >>Just a heads-up: drafts that are not in perfect format are being
> > > >>bounced with the message:
> > > >>
> > > >>According to the new procedure your I-D has to include some statements.
> > > >>Please check the
> > > >>http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg00244.html
> > > >>for more details.
> > > >>
> > > >>The two rejections that I have seen did not say what was missing.
> > > >>
> > > >>--Paul Hoffman, Director
> > > >>--VPN Consortium
> > > >>
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> >