Re: [xml2rfc] RFC Bibtex format doi numbering incorrect

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2017-05-30 00:26, John R Levine wrote:
> ...
> Among the reasons not to change it is that RFCs can contain references 
> to other kinds of documents, some of those other things also have DOIs, 
> and those DOIs always have to be looked up.  I hope we agree that code 
> that tried to guess some DOIs while looking up others would be fragile 
> and likely to break in obscure ways.
> ...

I did not suggest anything about non-RFC DOIs.

> As far as I can tell all of the code around the IETF that handles DOIs 
> does it correctly except for Julian's, and by this time he could have 
> fixed it with less effort than he's spent arguing that he doesn't want to.

The code we're talking about is *validation* code. It works for all 
published RFCs, and already has helped fixing broken references (when 
someone else copy/pasted a reference entry together).

I could fix this if there was an efficient way to lookup RFC information 
from rfc-editor.org, but that would require:

1) that the information is available per RFC (or set of RFCs), so it's 
not needed to pull the whole database

2) that the information is CORS-enabled, so it can be retrieved as side 
effect of displaying something in a browser

(that request isn't new, FWIW)

Best regards, Julian