Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

["Paul Hoffman" <[e-mail]>]

On 28 Nov 2019, at 8:33, John C Klensin wrote:

> (copying the IETF list -- this is not an ART matter alone)
> 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].

I strongly believe you are wrong: no such promise was made. If you can 
find any actual message that made such a promise, I'm happy to stand 
corrected.

--Paul Hoffman