Re: Document diffs... Re: A sad farewell

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

> 
> Carsten has a legacy thing

That is a fun subject, and maybe something that can actually give back to the discussion that this subject has forked off from.

In the IETF, drafts often have a long and protracted life.
Over a time of half a decade and more.
So stability in the authoring formats is gold.
(Which irks me, because there are some small aspects of kramdown-rfc I would otherwise improve [on the other hand, I am surprised how well it kept over its first decade].)

How is this relevant to the main thread discussion?
Only someone who is familiar with the actual work can properly assess (or even come up with) this “requirement” (read: objective with a strong weighting).
We need to treat people who have acquired this familiarity (and have the intellectual versatility to actively make use of it) with respect.
(Even if they happen to straddle the boundary between respected community member and “just a contractor”(*).)

Grüße, Carsten

(*) You know where you heard this phrase first.