In OASIS the de facto document markup during the preparation of the
documents is Word. The principle reason for this is that Word allows for
changes to the document to be highlighted.
The ability to see the differences to the document is critical if you
want people to read it thoroughly more than once.
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Behalf Of Juergen Schoenwaelder
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:25 AM
To: Ted Faber
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Subject: Re: RFCs should be distributed in XML (Was: Faux Pas
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:45:00AM -0800, Ted Faber wrote:
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.
I strongly disagree. I fact, I would love if the IETF could
settle on a system and in the long term, even the RFC editor
would just use it.
It will make my life much easier if I do not have to manually
track changes applied by the RFC editor to put them back into
my version controlled repository so that the editorial fixes
are not lost when the ID is up for revision.
It seems that the open source community much better
understands what it means to edit documents and how important
it is to even agree on style guidelines in order to be
efficient. The IETF is really in the stone age as an
organization in this respect.
Perhaps the reason is that those who still know how to write
and maintain code have become the minority in the IETF.
/js
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<http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561,
28725 Bremen, Germany
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