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Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 03 November 2020 07:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?
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Am 02.11.2020 um 19:42 schrieb Robert Sparks:
> ...
>> My recollection is that we preserved support for plain text exactly
>> *because* we did not want to disrupt existing tool chains. And we did
>> not, right?
>>
>> What was news to me is that there are documents which have
>> artwork/sourcecode that spans 50 pages, and thus people would like to
>> use page numbers. I don't recall that use case being mentioned in
>> context of the format transition.
>>
>> IMHO, publishing large blobs of source code as-is is weird. We publish
>> specs for *readers*, not for automatic processing. Is this specific to
>> the YANG community, or does it apply to other areas as well?
>
> ABNF can get pretty large (certainly more than one traditional page).
> ...

Many specs have the ABNF defined in context (HTTP, URI...). That makes
it much easier to refer to specific rules.

(In HTTP as of 2014, we have additionally included a "collected" ABNF as
appendix).

Best regards, Julian
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