The Tools Team will be rolling out some major improvements to
datatracker.ietf.org within the next 1-2 months.
These improvements should make information about drafts and their
status easier to find. The IESG has been testing this interface for
some time already, and has found it a big improvement over the current
one.
However, scripts that do "screen-scraping" (parse information from the
HTML pages) are likely to break. Instead of screen-scraping HTML, it
would be better to provide the information in machine-readable form;
some interfaces are already available, and adding more can be
considered. If you want to know more, please join the tools-discuss
list, and tell what information your scripts need.
Note that this code is developed by volunteers, so bug reports and
other comments should be sent to the tools-discuss(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org list, not
the IETF secretariat. If you have complaints you'd like to see
addressed, or suggestions for improvements, please also consider
volunteering to help: an IETF code sprint will be arranged in
Anaheim, too.
Instructions for joining the tools-discuss list can be found here:
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tools-discuss/
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