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Re: [rfc-i] Really not a poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?

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From: John Scudder <jgs@juniper.net>
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Thread-Topic: [rfc-i] Really not a poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?
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Subject: Re: [rfc-i] Really not a poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?
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On Oct 28, 2020, at 10:37 AM, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
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> But let me ask you: why is it not a good solution to put the section number and paragraph number in the header? Doesn’t that accomplish the same purpose in a way that can’t be mistakenly used?  You still have strictly increasing numbering, the TOC is still useful, and it makes the canonical reference format that we actually decided to use easier to use.

Pages are of fixed size. Paragraphs and especially sections, are not. Page numbers will be better for random access. Also, people have decades of practice randomly accessing documents using page numbers. 

I mean, paragraph or section is better than a sharp stick in the eye, but that’s a low bar. 

—John
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