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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 18:24 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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> But when the community asks that the tools produce something different for 
> their local use, and it's easy and inexpensive to add and maintain, it 
> doesn't seem like it's the right thing to do to deny it by policy.

I see one grumpy author who wants page numbers.  If we're going to add 
every tweak that one person wants, it's going to get awfully expensive.

> The RFC editor does not publish an epub format, for example. If someone were 
> to contribute an epub formatter that was reasonable to merge and maintain, we 
> should merge that. Allowing the tools to produce page numbers for local use 
> falls pretty close to that doesn't it?

No, it's something the IETF explicitly considered and rejected when it 
designed the new format.

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