Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

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

On 28 Nov 2019, at 11:57, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:25 AM Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]> 
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/format-faq/#10 points to
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6949.html#section-3.3, which 
> explicitly
> retires pagination as a goal.

Yes, of course. That's a significant amount less that what John was 
(possibly mis-remembering) in the "promise" he spoke about.

--Paul Hoffman