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Re: [rfc-i] getting SVG of RFC diagrams

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sun, 26 November 2023 23:07 UTC

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On 26 Nov 2023, at 14:53, Paul Kyzivat wrote:

> OK, it seems Carsten and I are in violent agreement.
> Can we hear from some others here on rfc-interest on whether this is popular enough to pursue further? At some point it probably needs to be discussed on the tools list.

This discussion started with "I want to be able to extract $x" and veered into "the RPC should be making $x available to everyone for every RFC". A different path would be "it would be nice if I could extract $x from one or more RFCs locally".

Given that no one has asked the original question before now, it seems likely to only be needed by a small number (maybe less than a few dozen) people. Thus, a discoverable tool that does it might be better than making the RPC add the tool and the process for everyone.

--Paul Hoffman

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