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Re: Things that used to be clear (was Re: Evolving Documents (nee "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Wed, 10 July 2019 15:05 UTC

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From: Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:05:36 -0400
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Subject: Re: Things that used to be clear (was Re: Evolving Documents (nee "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, IETF Rinse Repeat <ietf@ietf.org>
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:56 AM Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:

> On Jul 10, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:
>
> I'm glad it works for you.  The non-IETF-habituated new authors I've
> worked with have found it mystifying.  Including everyone from junior
> engineers to Fellows of major engineering organizations.
>
>
> What do they use instead?
>

The web-based Markdown tool I wrote a little while ago [1] has a few
users.  The more motivated ones clone Martin Thomson's template repo [2]
and work from there in Markdown.

I'm guessing many more just don't contribute.

--Richard

[1] https://ipv.sx/draftr
[2] https://github.com/martinthomson/i-d-template

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