David Morris wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Robinson Tryon wrote:
If authors take on the responsibility of creating and verifying the
fidelity of exported versions, then I think everything will be peachy.
What can we do to encourage this practice?
Start by compensating them for the work required to conform to this
requirement?
The IETF is a bunch of volunteers, most of whom carve out time for
participation from time needed to satisfy other responsiblities.
The authors already have issues with the basic tool set and compatiblity
with the computing environments needed for other life responsiblities.
Now you want to dictate a new step.
The awkward xml2rfc I-D authoring process can hardly be compared to
the effort of a minuscule mousemove when saving your presentation.
The additional effort on save + upload (especially for those boasting
about bleeding-edge bells'n'whistles slide-making software) is
less than 10 seconds to select a different format (PDF) on save.
For the data that is uploaded during the IETF Meeting (which is
a significant fraction) network bandwith is not an issue, its local.
Assuming an engineer with $100/hour, 10 seconds = 0.28 cents.
How about the IESG having a box of special brownies at IETF meetings
to reward those nice presentations authors who save the all of the
IETF participants downloading form datatracker combined
a few hours hours per document.
-Martin
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