I think that is an excellent suggestion.
I personally would like to see a bias towards the XML source,
but leaving it "open" for now is a good step in the right
direction.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:Harald(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:59 AM
To: Marshall T. Rose; Vernon Schryver; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: An I-D experiment (Re: HTML better for small PDAs)
At 18:30 26/02/2001 -0800, Marshall T. Rose wrote:
There is a use for XML or nroff versions of I-D's (but
not RFC's) that
has not been mentioned much (maybe first in your mention
of "ASCII memos
can't be reformatted"). It saves lots of work to
exchange editorial
changes
as deltas to a mark up language version.
i agree. this certainly is of value to the folks who author I-Ds.
Perhaps in other words, allow XML in
ftp.isi.edu:internet-drafts but
not in ftp.isi.edu:in-notes
i agree. i'm not asking that we publish RFCs in any new formats. i'm
suggesting that we experiment for 9 months in the I-D area.
A slight modification (I changed the subject line to
concentrate on the
constructive thread out of this):
Let's say that we accept I-Ds in ASCII format.
Let's also say that for each I-D, the secretariat will accept
up to 1 file
containing "source", where "source" can be NROFF macros, XML
(Marshall's
DTD) text or Word documents.
To be stored in the "internet-drafts/source" subdirectory.
(for completeness, there should also be a note saying how to
produce the
ASCII from the source; my Word stuff differs from the
official Word stuff -
but this makes the use/submission more complex)
After 9 months, we can ask people to evaluate:
- Whether they used "source" at all
- What formats they found that were useful
- What formats they found that caused trouble
This thread should go somewhere else....
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