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Re: please review rfc-index.xml
- To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
- Subject: Re: please review rfc-index.xml
- From: Aaron Falk <falk@ISI.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:47:39 -0800
- Cc: Bob Braden <braden@ISI.EDU>, smb@research.att.com, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org, iesg@ietf.org, iab@ietf.org, ietf-xml@ops.ietf.org
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Well, you could start with
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rsync-help.html...
---aaron
Fred Baker wrote:
> At 06:31 PM 3/18/2003 -0800, Bob Braden wrote:
> >Would you care to give a testimonial? ;=)
>
> Well, think about it this way. Every night, I have a job that runs that
> generates:
>
> ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/internal/cisco-internet-drafts.html
> ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/internal/stds.html
>
> ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/rfc-index/rfc.html
> ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/rfc-index/drafts.html
> ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/rfc-index/std.html
>
> The first two are only visible within Cisco; the others are kept visible
> outside, and at least one of them is pointed to from the RFC Editor's page.
>
> I generate them from http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/1id-index.txt and
> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.txt. I do this using a
> collection of awk scripts.
>
> Think about it.
>
> It would be really nice if I could start from something moderately regular,
> that had the right information, and one could imagine generating them in a
> different order, with the abstract, or etc.
>
> I'm all for it...