[rfc-i] Re: Regarding RPC effort in producing XML RFCs

[Jean Mahoney <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

On 9/8/26 11:15 AM, Robert Sparks wrote:
> 
> On 9/8/26 10:54 AM, Bob Hinden wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>>> On Sep 8, 2026, at 8:37 AM, Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8 Sep 2026, at 8:32, Bob Hinden wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do we have any data on how many plain text submissions there are?
>>> More importantly: what percent of the plain text submissions become 
>>> WG documents and/or RFCs? I suspect that the number is so low that 
>>> making an XML requirement will not even noticeably affect the IETF's 
>>> work.
>> The question was about RPC work.   I don’t think it matters how many 
>> IDs are not XML.   What is important is how much work the RPC is doing 
>> to handle non-XML drafts.
> With that point taken, accept this bit of data hopefully without it 
> turning into too much of a diversion. Counting only 2026 submissions, 
> overall about 10% of draft submissions are text only. About 5% of wg 
> draft submissions are txt only. That 5% comes from a couple of dozen 
> submitters and spans 30 working groups. However, only a very small 
> number were submitted to the RPC as txt only.

[JM] Within the last year, 3 documents were submitted to the queue in 
text format. Instead of using id2xml, the RPC finds that it is easier to 
convert a text submission to kramdown-rfc and then convert that file to 
RFCXML.

This is another avenue of LLM exploration for us.

Best regards,
Jean

>>
>> Bob
>>
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