Re: URLs for RFCs and more (sigh!) on HTML RFCs (long)

Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org> Wed, 01 February 1995 21:13 UTC

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To: "James E. [Jed] Donnelley" <jed@llnl.gov>
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From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Subject: Re: URLs for RFCs and more (sigh!) on HTML RFCs (long)
Cc: Bob Aiken <aiken@es.net>, Vernon Schryver <vjs@rhyolite.denver.sgi.com>, ietf@CNRI.Reston.VA.US

"James E. [Jed] Donnelley" <jed@llnl.gov> wrote:
>I just argue that by providing the opportunity to have an:
>
>http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1714.html
>
>we add some communication value at negligible
>cost.

Some value, but not what I would eventually hope for.  I would like the
logical structure of the RFC to be fully reflected in the html marked up
version.

Has anyone tried building such beasts?

I am interested enough in what an html-ed RFC would look like that I just
might have to try to write one myself...


-kb

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