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ietf-tools / idnits

Library / CLI to inspect Internet-Draft documents for a variety of conditions to conform with IETF policies.
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Missing References #23

Open mjethanandani opened 1 year ago

mjethanandani commented 1 year ago

The latest version of this tool complains about missing references when it is regular text in the draft. For example if the text in the draft says the following:

   [64496 64500]
      Matches the AS_PATH where at least one of the ASes is either 64496
      or 64500.

   [^64496 64500]
      Matches the AS_PATH where neither 64496 nor 64500 are present in
      the AS_PATH.

   [64496-64511]
      Matches the AS_PATH where at least one AS number is in the range
      64496..64511, inclusive.  This matches the documentation AS
      numbers in [RFC5398].

The tools reports the following error:

  == Missing Reference: '64496 64500' is mentioned on line 7881, but
     not defined

  == Missing Reference: '64496-64511' is mentioned on line 7889, but
     not defined

  == Missing Reference: '64505-64511' is mentioned on line 7901, but
     not defined
rjsparks commented 1 year ago

We'll add this as a place to improve the behavior for the re-implementation of idnits.