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Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Sun, 01 December 2019 17:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting
To: "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>
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Joel M. Halpern wrote on 30/11/2019 23:46:
> It seems that it ought to take a consensus call (here, rfc-interest, 
> somewhere else?) to change the default output prouced by the IETF tools. 
>   The question of pagination of output was more contentious than I would 
> have expected in previous rounds.

Not even slightly unexpected - this is a classic bikeshed issue.

I'd be happy for pagination to be the default if there were rough 
consensus that the primary medium for reading RFCs was printed paper.

Nick

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