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Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Sun, 01 December 2019 02:33 UTC

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 21:32:57 -0500
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>, Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Joel,

FWIW, I think that measuring consensus on rfc-interest and
assuming that represented consensus of RFC users, and others
dependent on them, or even that of the IETF, may be what got us
into this mess.
 
   john\

--On Saturday, November 30, 2019 18:46 -0500 "Joel M. Halpern"
<jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:

> It seems that it ought to take a consensus call (here,
> rfc-interest, somewhere else?) to change the default output
> prouced by the IETF tools.   The question of pagination of
> output was more contentious than I would have expected in
> previous rounds.
> 
> Yours,
> Joel
> 
> On 11/30/2019 5:58 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
>> On 11/30/19 5:22 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> 
>>> On Nov 30, 2019, at 21:26, Henrik
>>> Levkowetz<henrik@levkowetz.com>  wrote:
>>>> If being able to generate paginated text output for
>>>> published v3 RFC XML files is desirable, I'm happy to add a
>>>> switch to do that.
>>> Please do.
>> 
>> Yes, please do.   Though IMO this should be the default.
>> (paginated, not  necessarily including page numbers).
>> 
>> Keith
>> 
>> 
>

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