Subject: [Tools-discuss] Bad (but not harmful) output at the top of the nits checker

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:10:36 -0700

When resolving <http://tools.ietf.org/idnits?url=http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-kivinen-ipsecme-ikev2-rfc5996bis-03.txt>

tmp/draft-kivinen-ipsecme-ikev2-rfc5996bis-03.txt:
   Attempted to download rfc020 state...
   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.
   Attempted to download rfc0879 state...
   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.
   Attempted to download rfc4500 state...
   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.
   Attempted to download rfc8192 state...
   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.
   Attempted to download rfc9519 state...
   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.
   Attempted to download rfc9827 state...
   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.

They all seem to come from some bad heuristics on guessing which RFCs were referenced. The last three are particularly humorous.

--Paul Hoffman