Re: [xml2rfc] RFC Bibtex format doi numbering incorrect

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sun, 28 May 2017 21:30 UTC

Return-Path: <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
X-Original-To: xml2rfc@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: xml2rfc@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A542129492 for <xml2rfc@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 28 May 2017 14:30:22 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -3.5
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_05=-0.5, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-2.8, RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM=0.5, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([4.31.198.44]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3J-XiouxOZvZ for <xml2rfc@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 28 May 2017 14:30:21 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19817120046 for <xml2rfc@ietf.org>; Sun, 28 May 2017 14:30:20 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [192.168.178.20] ([93.217.99.52]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Mfn88-1dc8um12ou-00NDad; Sun, 28 May 2017 23:29:56 +0200
To: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>, "Dale R. Worley" <worley@ariadne.com>
Cc: xml2rfc@ietf.org
References: <87shjphx4o.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> <alpine.OSX.2.21.1705281102580.45932@ary.qy>
From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <a9e981dc-d452-026a-915b-613a61863809@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 23:29:56 +0200
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.21.1705281102580.45932@ary.qy>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed"
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:X3vAW3hlo56+VdxXdVuKdl49eP09bNcOFZ8TKjbmqS4tDMTkHgA MUf623RJ8vSKKKvQ8/5+tfFjKjTk8SdDNmGqnLgHCtmKkILTVEIZAqud1c3aX3mugqmmPlS h8R3p35PnKbIE6TR1J4P9fzJlVtyIIEbyq7HYE/7GaZl2WfhztBJzSIFzWVWOArEUNu5PhB YB9++Jx36LSI7CRu8Xlxg==
X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:XpWbRLAntQ4=:XScn80RgxvyeBTtksxbWfa Nx6Qi1TA6td1gthTnW7wcnLYcKmcD0CPV7sPPhtUW3kdnMVi0GPN2IY35RHVnseYP3H4ShHIo BWohtegrOe7F0/YMHSHamkUMV7ymL4W49aBpAC9uJgKj6u1JDIfa8as6oGw2HEWx+Vg4oiNhJ E/xxqrUx22eTK8rNc2X72ju6Oq2Kazz5svqZGZhCpv603GanDPC2BBSJLRvOJ5dAzTt54Bk/o V7M7eZ8kmxzojMPElRxI7TO6KTmHqEBN9YSWOqDS77ZoFWVlmvEPcBMLD2VhZ6zTTV2XN2Yjh OVOkhQL+WIq2tEXihePQurqIr6/IUfS4pjMqVH5C1Irz4njlqI6K4AK1ZEDL087S3zXIl6XDb i+J63SH1ItxZJRkO1fAXtWcBOh7vkNWbxU8mhb3kxo7rDg13QQLHpcfUEQkisxneUSmp67zxz ipNTHiUCigevIiOdaH22DO0BHz/oRiI+ocZisXpatJ4n0SmRZJThXX4ck51zIlSN7LzKZZ/SK /7faX84Urh/0zHFY4SPhnGxeyWqkGVpacX323CtjeD+ic+5BWS3Z8mb81aFQpnlfgkDCKpH3E lzIA4yDQvrG4gziMaw9KlFq1f1uVEyChQkUrovoX8zfG8vBb/1FW+5ihxvCJvjj2TjRHKIygQ bGNnyRigy9abEr9UW/E6gvUxS1KmixGMRMPwjRlL1BfE/DWZrTw3F618RoC+rBsmynSTbamD2 IKmtvkpk4H97OLREQa67OeXSOHN/6UPvgG0TEYHEzz3VPECUfcwvW8EOch3QzktL9QD3kvBqa Fgau1vq
Archived-At: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/xml2rfc/nWMpvo05b0T34pdYz2ixP4-CwC4>
Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] RFC Bibtex format doi numbering incorrect
X-BeenThere: xml2rfc@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22
Precedence: list
List-Id: <xml2rfc.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/xml2rfc>, <mailto:xml2rfc-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/xml2rfc/>
List-Post: <mailto:xml2rfc@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:xml2rfc-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/xml2rfc>, <mailto:xml2rfc-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 21:30:22 -0000

On 2017-05-28 17:04, John R Levine wrote:
>> I don't know why, but presumably because it allows future flexibility.
>> In any case, the DOIs for existing RFCs have been *assigned*.  If you
>> use rsync to fetch ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs/rfc-index.txt,
> 
> It's easier to parse stuff out of rfc-index.xml in the same directory. 
> Yes, Julian, there is a doi field.

Which makes something that should be easy hard.

The only problem in computing you can't fix with additional indirections 
is the problem of too many indirections. And this is one too much, IMHO.

Best regards, Julian