Static in the Ether » RFC http://lair.moria.org/blog Unix, Information Security & Systems Administration Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:14:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Another RFC to BibTeX script http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/45 http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/45#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:37:34 +0000 Barry Irwin http://lair.moria.org/blog/?p=45 Following form my earlier post regarding a pre-compiled bibTeX database of all Internet RFCs, I discovered while browsing the CTAN archives that Richard Mortier wrote a awk script back in 2000 while at Cambridge Computing Lab, that does something similar. For purists who don’t trust this new fangled XML and XSLT stuff its available at:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/misc/rfc2bib.awk

Or other CTAN mirrors closer to you.

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The 1.8 meg .bib file is probably a little large for general use but once can easily trim and copy entries required manually or using JabRef. Citations look like the following:

@MISC{rfc1466,
author = {E. Gerich},
title = {{Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space}},
howpublished = {RFC 1466 (Informational)},
month = may,
year = {1993},
note = {Obsoleted by RFC 2050},
number = {1466},
organisation = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
publisher = {IETF},
series = {Request for Comments},
timestamp = {2008.05.18},
url = {http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1466.txt}
}

A resource certain to save typing or multiple c & p operations. The one possible change one may want to make is to include the RFC number in the document tile such as:


title = {{RFC 1466: Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space}}


Another changes may be to use the @TechReport type as opposed to @Misc. An other alternative (although out of date) is the repository at University of Utah Maths Department.

Related to this the W3C have a web page which allows for automated generation of bibTeX citation information for their publications.

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