Re: RFCs should be distributed in XML (Was: Faux Pas -- web publication

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:53:33AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message 
> <ed6d469d0511141114w652c55d3te7df6ec33e8526de(_at_)mail(_dot_)gmail(_dot_)com>,
>  Bill 
> Fenner writes:
> > I've been pondering change tracking, in the context of copy-editing,
> > but I haven't come up with a complete thought yet.
> CVS?  Should the Secretariat make CVS archives available to WG 
> document editors?  I've written a book and many joint papers via CVS; 
> it works very well for line-oriented ASCII input, whether XML, LaTeX, 
> nroff, or what have you.
I think Bill was talking about making his editing plug-in display
changes to the document as change bars or whatnot.  But that's just my
interpretation.

WRT revision control software on I-Ds, I think it's an excellent idea,
but authors should use whatever they agree on.  IMHO, the IETF doesn't
need to provide a system.  CVS vs. RCS vs. subversion vs. $DIETY knows
what is too much of a mess to wade into for the benefit.  If the
Secretariat is going to provide something it may as well be wdiff
(ASCII/HTML) output which is human readable.  IMHO.

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