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Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Fri, 29 November 2019 05:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting
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On 11/28/19 11:33 AM, John C Klensin wrote:

> Hi.  I realize it is very late, probably too late, to be
> complaining about this, but my clear recollection was that, when
> the v3 project was started, the community was promised that,
> while the authoritative/ canonical/ archival format would shift
> to the XML and fully-functional HTML and PDF format (not just
> HTML and PDF produced from plain text forms) would become
> available, the plain text format would be preserved sufficiently
> that tools [1] that were designed for, and used with, RFCs for
> the last 40-odd years would continue to work and work equally
> well [2].

FWIW, I also recall this promise, at least being made verbally.

I hope it's not too late to fix this.

Keith

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