XML2RFC submission would be based on an IETF standard, and I understand
that many will find that attractive. However, for me, this is
problematic.
An interesting part of the current text format is that it is defined in
a very simple way: so many lines, so many columns, that's about it.
Compare that to an XML grammar: we define lines and lines of rules,
attributes, sub attributes, and their expected meaning.
Guess what: we are engineers, and engineers like to tinker. Given that
tinkering with XML grammars is both very easy and very tempting, we can
be pretty sure that there will be many revisions. An XML format is going
to be much less stable than the current status!
As a preparation tool, XML2RFC is probably OK. But it cannot be as
stable and future proof as ASCII text as a "final product" format.
-- Christian Huitema
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