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Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-02 18:37:51
On 7/2/09 at 4:05 PM +0100, Stewart Bryant wrote:

Tim Bray wrote:
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum<iljitsch(_at_)muada(_dot_)com> wrote:

A much better solution would be HTML, if it's sufficiently constrained.

Or, gee, we could generalize to a very constrained XML format.....oh....wait....

I certainly agree that some text-based markup with reasonable tools for folks like Dave Mills (and others) to easily convert to a readable (or listenable) format is absolutely essential. As Dave put it, the current RFC format is "unfriendly, unnecessary, possibly unethical and just plain wrong." I'd remove the "possibly."

The showstopper has always been with figures which need to do in separate files. How do you manipulate the collection of files as a single object?

At least with pdf you know you have the whole thing.

We've actually got a standard for that: RFC 2387 and its brethren.

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