Re: fetching IETF/IRTF material programmatically

> It's possible that there are better tools available - please let me 
> know if you aware of anything.
A related tool (I won't say "better") is a CLI tool for opening drafts 
and RFCs, Datatracker pages, and so on:
   http://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietf-cli/

--Paul Hoffman