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Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 28 November 2019 16:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On Nov 28, 2019, at 17:33, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:
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> So, even if it is too late to reconsider these decisions, I hope
> we can at least be aware of possible negative side effects.

It is never too late to fix this bug.

I think the last few months have uncovered a lot of usages for the plain text form of RFCs, as well as the fact that “nobody will ever look at the plain text now that we have HTML” is maybe true for 80 %, but not for 100 %.

Grüße, Carsten

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