RE: Announcement: New Boilerplate Text Required for all new Submissions to IETF

"Ed Juskevicius" <edj@nortel.com> Wed, 12 November 2008 16:29 UTC

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From: Ed Juskevicius <edj@nortel.com>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, IETF Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>
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> Can't we just get rid of this nonsense in our
> drafts and have only a pointer?

Unfortunately, "no".   Sorry! 

Best Regards,

Ed  J.


-----Original Message-----
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:17 AM
To: Tim Chown
Cc: Juskevicius, Ed (CAR:1A12); IETF Discussion
Subject: Re: Announcement: New Boilerplate Text Required for all new
Submissions to IETF

On 12 nov 2008, at 16:12, Tim Chown wrote:

> It would be great if the ietf list could be reminded when the new 
> version of the rather excellent xml2rfc tool is issued, so we don't 
> need to keep checking back for it.

Can't we just get rid of this nonsense in our drafts and have only a
pointer?

30% of my 6 page draft is boiler plate.
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