Internet-Draft Archive Tool

Internet-Draft Archive

Enter a full or partial draft name ("draft-something..."):

This is a proof-of-concept of a tool which provides stable references (URLs) for internet drafts, and also some search capability. The tool is implemented as an apache 404 error handler, available here: ID archive 404.cgi

The current prototype has the following features:

Given an URL of the form http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-name-subject, with a complete name but without explicit version number, the most recent version in the archive will be shown.
Example: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6
Given an URL of the form http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-name-subject-NN.txt, complete with explicit version number, that specific version will be returned if it exists in the repository.
Example: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-12.txt
If a given an URL of the form http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-name-subject-NN.txt does not exist in the repository, a Not Found page will be generated. If the draft is listed in all_id.txt as expired, that will be indicated. If other versions of the given draft exists in the repository, a link to the latest version will be provided. Example: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-crocker-edi-00.txt
Given an incomplete URL of the form http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-something, up to 100 matches with the prefix draft-something will be shown.
Example: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-iab-
Given an incomplete URL of the form http://tools.ietf.org/id/REGEXP, where REGEXP is a perl / python style regular expression, a list of up to 100 matches for the regular expression will be shown.
Example: http://tools.ietf.org/id/iab.*ipv6
If the last version of a document in the archive is a tombstone, the version of the draft which the tombstone refers to will be shown (if it is in the archive).
The tool does not require any changes to the archive content. It is implemented as a apache error document handler, and may be easily deployed for the current ietf internet-drafts repository (but will then only show drafts which are less than 6 months old).
For the benefit of tool access to the archive, any request which does not result in the retrieval of one unique document will result in a 404 error return, with the list of partial matches in the document body.

Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at tools.ietf.org Port 443