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Re: [Emailcore] Navigating 5321bis (and predecessors)

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Thu, 07 January 2021 09:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Emailcore] Navigating 5321bis (and predecessors)
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On Fri 01/Jan/2021 21:18:28 +0100 John C Klensin wrote:
>
> Two questions I'd like WG participants to think about:
> 
> (1) How much reorganizing and rewriting do we want to do and what are our
> stopping rules?

Minimal reorganizing and rewriting, but not less.


> (2) Are there ways that we can mitigate the problems with finding things.
> [...]  Would that be worth doing in terms of finding information or is the
> table of contents sufficient?   Other ideas?

I think an index is useless nowadays, since page numbers are not a univocal 
reference anymore (they only appear in PDFs and are presumably going to depend 
on paper formats.)

Rather, I'd insert [See also <xref>] notes wherever appropriate.


Best
Ale
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