[rfc-i] getting SVG of RFC diagrams

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 23 November 2023 10:23 UTC

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Subject: [rfc-i] getting SVG of RFC diagrams
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RFC9334, for instance, as a few really nice SVG diagrams in it.

I know how to Show-Source, and then find the diagram I want, and then copy
and paste the SVG out into a file.  Others might find that harder to work
out.  In general, I'd prefer that people citing the document and diagrams did
so using the vector form of the diagram, rather than some 100dpi screen shot.

Perhaps for some use cases, there are some copyright issues, but certainly
not for talks about the RFC itself (reasonable use, criticism, etc.), or for
other I-D.

The question is: how to make these SVG files more easily available from the
HTML version of the RFC?

{I hope this belongs on this list}





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