On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 01:39:38PM -0700, Bob Braden wrote:
It would be good if RFC authors put atleast as much care into the
clarity and organization of their contents as you are devoting to a
discussion of the formatting. The contents are what matter, and fancy
formatting may (or may not) be a distraction from the more important
issues of contents.
I fully agree, and it is why I was so vexed by Donald Eastlake's
inital claim that the I-D and RFC format is "plain ASCII".
In my view, we have an actual serious problem in that there is an
increasingly high barrier to I-D submission because idnits has a large
number of rules, nearly all of which are about formatting. I don't
believe that authors of documents or WG-appointed editors ought to
have to worry terribly much about that, except maybe near the time
when the document is ready for publication. It's absurd, given the
tools available, that document authors need to worry as much about
line lengths and number of pages (!) in initial submissions as they
need to worry about completeness and clarity of their text.
A
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Andrew Sullivan
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