Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 29 November 2019 19:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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On 29.11.2019 18:29, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2019, at 18:07, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> In any case, this really sounds like the comeback of a discussion we had
>> ~7 years ago (with probably thousands of emails), leading to the
>> publication of RFC 6949.
>
> Yes!
>
> We are now starting to gain actual experience with the brave new world instead of just random guessing how that will feel (with a heavy dose of process confabulation at the time).  In software, obtaining end-user experience generally leads to iterations.
> ...

Yes, the transition takes too much time. It should have been done
several years ago, but it's still not finished (despite claims that it
is). I really wish that energy would go into finishing the actual format
conversion, and not bike-shedding the text format :-).

Keep in mind that it's a compromise. At the one extreme there were
people asking for no change at all (thus, no non-ASCII). At the other
end of the spectrum, people proposed no page-breaking and no
line-breaking (seriously).

What's currently generated is really very close to what we had before.

Best regards, Julian