Re: [mpowr] Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-wasserman-rfc2418-ml-update-00.txt

Hi Margaret,

    Since I'm replying to your xml2rfc question at the bottom, I might
as well touch on the rest too..

Wednesday 11 February 2004, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
> How about changing that final sentence to a separate paragraph that
> says:
> 
> This mechanism is intended to permit a WG chair to suspend posting privileges
> of a disruptive individual for a short period of time.  This mechanism does
> not permit WG chairs to suspend an individual's posting privileges for
> a period longer than 30 days regardless of the type or severity of the
> disruptive incident.  However, further disruptive behaviour by the same
> individual will be considered separately and may result in further warnings
> or suspensions.  Other methods of mailing list control, including longer
> suspensions, must be approved by the IESG or carried out in accordance with
> other IESG-approved procedures.

I find this is an improvement over both -00 and Johns alternative.

> >(2) The -01 version of this, if there is one, needs spell-checking.
> 
> Sorry, I produced it under a rather tight deadline.  I expect to publish
> an -01 update shortly after Seoul (hopefully for IETF Last Call), and I'll
> do better.

If you are running a system with ispell on it (linux, or windows with
cygwin) you can use ispell with the -h flag on the .xml file before running
it through xml2rfc.  Works well.

> >(3) The procedural change I'd most like to see --not, in any sense, the 
> >one that is the most important, but one of those I find most irritating -- 
> >would result in an Internet Draft with two or three pages of substance not 
> >ending up nine pages long. I think those 8 1/2 pages are yet another 
> >symptom that things have gotten somewhat out of hand.

Agree.

> Me, too.  Some of the length can be attributed to the fact that the
> formatting tool I use puts each section on a new page.  Does anyone
> know if there is an option in xml2rfc to override that?

Add this at the top of the .xml file (after the XML declaration):
    <?rfc compact='yes'?>

	Henrik

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