Nice tool. However, I am wondering why the tool changes the order of the names. There is actually a reason why documents list names in a specific order.
Some of the citations appear to be incomplete, see RFC3410. Cheers, Mehmet > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of ext Ole > Jacobsen > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:17 AM > To: The IETF > Cc: RSOC; Heather Flanagan; r...@rfc-editor.org > Subject: RFC and I-D Citation Tool > > > In The Internet Protocol Journal I have been using the following > citation format, best illustrated by an example: > > Julien Meuric, Diego Caviglia, Don Fedyk, Attila Takacs, and Lou > Berger, "GMPLS Asymmetric Bandwidth Bidirectional Label Switched > Paths (LSPs)," RFC 6387, September 2011. > > So, that's full author names "and" before the last author name, title, > document number and date, using the American "quotation outside > punctuation rule." > > I got tired of doing this "by hand" so I asked Henrik if he could > write me a tool. He did (THANKS!), and the result is here: > > http://tools.ietf.org/tools/citation/ > > This will take either the draft name or the RFC number as input and > produce a citation similar to the one above. You can of course play > with the elements and generate a format that suits your own taste, for > example, for I-Ds, in print it might be good to have the FILE NAME as > the last entry: > > Adam Langley, "Serializing DNS Records with DNSSEC Authentication," > Internet Draft, work in progress, July 2011, > draft-agl-dane-serializechain-01 > > ...since I like having filenames or URLs on one line (not wrapping) > as much as possible. > > Many thanks again to Henrik, and I hope you will find it useful too! > > Ole > > > > Ole J. Jacobsen > Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal > Cisco Systems > Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 > E-mail: o...@cisco.com URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj > Skype: organdemo
