Re: page headers in I-Ds

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
> I just encountered a case where smistrip did not perform well with an 
> I-D that passed the id-nits tool filter because it expected the page 
> headers to be formatted exactly as xml2rfc if formatting.
>  
> However, life is more interesting, and some people still use nroff or word.
>  
> Does anyone know a reference that says how header format should look 
> like in an I-D, saying for example that "Internet Draft" is OK, but 
> "Internet-Draft" is not?
>  

Both forms have been in I-Ds forever.
This issue has been in smistrip forever.
It should check for space or dash.  Beyond that,
other variants may break.


> Thanks,
>  
> Dan

Andy