Thanks Ben (and apologies about the double submission).

In this case, given the reference is not an RFC, that would explain why the
script failed. Can we do a manual fix after the script has run to update
the RFC?

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:24 AM Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:21:45AM -0700, RFC Errata System wrote:
> >  --VERIFIER NOTES--
> > Errata reports are for reporting issues with the authoritative RFC
> version(s) as published by the RFC Editor.  RFC 8176 predates the usage of
> the "v3 XML" format, so the plain text version is the authoritative one,
> and thus questions of HTML links are irrelevant for it.
>
> For what it's worth, this "bad HTML link" situation occurs with some
> regularity -- the "html" versions of non-v3-XML RFCs are created by running
> a script over the text version.  The script uses heuristics to convert
> certain types of text into links, and "Section <N>" gets expanded to this
> document unless followed by "of RFC <Y>".  I believe this script is
> open-source and patches would be welcome, though I don't know the location
> of the source-code repository in question off the top of my head.
>
> -Ben
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