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Re: [rfc-i] John/rsoc: Re: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Mon, 26 October 2020 17:47 UTC

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From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>, rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>, rsoc@iab.org
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> John - you've answered why RFCs are not published with page numbers and 
> where/when the community discussion that took place for that decision.
>
> You haven't answered whether/how the RSOC engaged the community on the 
> question of whether the tools should let someone produce an RFC locally that 
> has page numbers in it for themselves if they want to. The reasoning for not 
> letting the tools produce such a thing is certainly not explicitly captured 
> in the series of RFCs you point to.

I am not Heather and I do not remember all the details, but I cannot 
imagine why you would want to reopen this can of worms.

People can write whatever they want for their own use, but the tools we 
are paying for produce the output formats that our consensus documents 
describe.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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