GETAUTHORS Tool

This tool extracts author name, company, e-mail address, and country information from Internet Drafts and RFCs.

Usage:

getauthors draft-foo-00.txt ...

Output will be consist of one row per each author, with fields separated by colons. These fields are as follows:

• The document file name.
• The name of the author.
• The author's company, determined from the e-mail address below or through the database of the tool for exceptional cases.
• The author's e-mail address.
• The country corresponding to the author's given postal address, or determined through exception database or whois data for the author's domain.
• The length of the draft in pages, calculated as the number of lines divided by 59.
• Publication month.
• Publication year.
• Publication day.
• Features used in the draft. The currently recognized features are postscript (Postscript file also available), pdf (PDF file also available), figure (document has a figure), format (packet format diagram), abnf (document has an ABNF definition), asn1 (document has ASN.1), xml (document has XML), code (document has C code), kwd (document has RFC 2119 keywords), seccons (document has a security considerations section), ianacons (IANA considerations section), and errata (document is an RFC that has a published errata).
• Source of the author information (doc, xml).

For the last five fields, if the data cannot be determined, the value "UNKNOWN" is used instead.

Examples

  % getauthors draft-ietf-eap-keying-07.txt
  draft-ietf-eap-keying-07.txt:Bernard Aboba:microsoft:bernarda@microsoft.com:usa:55:oct:2005:
  draft-ietf-eap-keying-07.txt:Dan Simon:microsoft:dansimon@microsoft.com:usa:55:oct:2005:
  draft-ietf-eap-keying-07.txt:Jari Arkko:ericsson:jari.arkko@ericsson.com:finland:55:oct:2005:
  draft-ietf-eap-keying-07.txt:Pasi Eronen:nokia:pasi.eronen@nokia.com:finland:55:oct:2005:
  draft-ietf-eap-keying-07.txt:Henrik Levkowetz:ericsson:henrik@levkowetz.com:sweden:55:oct:2005:

Download

The tool can be requested from the author. Current version is 5.0.1. See also authorstats, getidtype and getrfctype.

Rights

This software was written by Jari Arkko and its use and modification is free.

Disclaimer

No warranty is given: use this software at your own risk.

This tool is a hack and in a serious need of a total rewrite. Please contribute. More data about the accuracy of the tool can be found here.