Hi all,

The HTML file (available from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8176 
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8176>) was generated using rfc2html 
(https://www.pypi.org/project/rfc2html 
<https://www.pypi.org/project/rfc2html>). Please feel free to direct questions 
to the maintainers listed on that page.

Thanks,
RFC Editor/sg


> On Oct 20, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> [adding back rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org]
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I am quite far removed from the actual operation of the script and the
> rfc-editor.org website, so I don't know the answer to your question.  That
> said, my understanding is that it's set up with automation that assumes the
> script is idempotent, and can regenerate various bits from scratch in
> certain cases, so a manual edit might not be very reliable.
> 
> -Ben
> 
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:26:21AM -0700, David Brossard wrote:
>> 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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>> 
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