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RFCs should be distributed in XML (Was: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 08 November 2005 09:27 UTC

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On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:24:51AM -0800,
 Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker@verisign.com> wrote 
 a message of 36 lines which said:

> The problems with HTML are almost entirely the result of people
> trying to give the author control over the final format which is
> none of the author's beeswax.

BTW, does anyone who knows IETF and the RFC-editor function better
than I do, can tell why RFC 2629 is not the mandatory official format
for RFC, even now after six years?

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