RFC 8996 seems to be creating problems

[martinthomson]

Describe the issue

https://bib.ietf.org/search/?query=rfc8996&allow_format_fallback=True&bypass_cache=True is quite slow:

2 database queries against 265188 items took 3.194 and 0.711 sec.

https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8996.xml has timed out a few times for me.

https://bib.ietf.org/get-one/by-docid/?docid=RFC+8996&doctype=IETF&query=rfc8996&query_format=docid_regex&page=1 produced a timeout from the Cloudflare CDN.

This document is special in that it has an extraordinarily large number of "Updates" links. That could be it.

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the IETF's Code of Conduct

[ajeanmahoney]

Can confirm that timeouts are seen when accessing the URL https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8996.xml and that xml2rfc errors when it is included as an xi:include:

Error: Unable to resolve external request: "https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8996.xml"
Error: XInclude processing failed: could not load https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8996.xml, and no fallback was found, line 1681
Unable to complete processing draft-ietf-oauth-resource-metadata-13.original.v2v3.xml