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

Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> Wed, 12 November 2008 15:17 UTC

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From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Announcement: New Boilerplate Text Required for all new Submissions to IETF
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:16:44 +0100
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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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