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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 18:55 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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>> No, it's something the IETF explicitly considered and rejected when it 
>> designed the new format.
>
> Which "it"? If you meant epub, RFC7990 says

No, I meant paginated text RFCs.  The arguments against them, that people 
will misunderstand what they are and use the page numbers as references, 
still seem persuasive to me.  Indeed, what else would they use them for?

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John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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