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Re: A sad farewell

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Fri, 06 November 2020 20:24 UTC

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From: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:24:26 -0500
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Subject: Re: A sad farewell
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 7:41 PM Salz, Rich <rsalz=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
wrote:

>  *...*
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> The IETF has to have a standard input format for things that the authors
> intend to become RFC’s.  Are you arguing about that?  Or do you just not
> like that the official choice is XML with custom tags?
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> You’re not obligated to use that – there are converters that take MSWord,
> markdown, integrate with github actions, etc. You just have to get to XML
> so the IETF can work with it.
>

I periodically do documents that get published as RFCs and I'm not sure if
I've submitted even one in XML. Actually I think there was one case some
time ago where I was making minor changes to a document that was already in
XML. I and a number of other people just submit text documents in the form
of internet-drafts, produced by nroff or whatever. Works fine without any
need on my part to "get to XML".

Thanks,
Donald
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