Render RFC references

[andrew2net]

Render RFC references

[opoudjis]

Your question is, where is bibliography building handled in RFC. The answer is that they are indeed handled in ref_section(); but asciidoctor-rfc already has functionality to query the RFC bibliographic database and add references from there: common/base.rb, cache_biblio() and insert_biblio(). No functionality needs to be added to asciidoctor-rfc.

Hypothetically, we could add isobib functionality to asciidoctor-rfc; that would necessitate translating Relaton XML to RFC XML. In practice, let's not do that unless Ronald asks for it; it will make things messier, and RFC documents don't cite outside of the IETF often enough for it to add much value.

[ronaldtse]

We should actually extract rfcbib from asciidoctor-rfc and move it to a common framework that combines IsoBib, gbbib and rfcbib.

[opoudjis]

The two bibliographies of ISO and rfc are fetched completely differently, and serialised completely differently. If we keep the two separate, conflating some in the one gem is not useful. if we attempt to merge them, but somehow mapping rfc bibliographies that are already in the correct format into Relaton XML and back, it is even less useful.

[ronaldtse]

They are fetched differently but the fetched reference should be stored in ISODOC in the exact same format (i.e. Relaton XML). So it is useful to generalize this framework:

Fetch RFC/ISO/GB/IEC/IEV ---> Relaton model ---> Insert into ISODOC ---> Render into WhateverFormat

[andrew2net]

@ronaldtse I finished RfcBib gem. If we shouldn't integrate it into asciidoctor-rfc, when what is next step?

[opoudjis]

It is intended for integration into asciidoctor-iso and asciidoctor-gb. I will assign myself tickets to do so.

[ronaldtse]

The other part is to refactor asciidoctor-rfc into the same structure as asciidoctor-iso and asciidoctor-gb, but it's separate from this ticket.

[ronaldtse]

(https://github.com/riboseinc/asciidoctor-rfc/issues/105)