Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc-dev] [xml2rfc] New xml2rfc release: v2.25.0

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 30.08.2019 06:43, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2019, at 06:21, Julian Reschke <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>> I need to find where 'consensus' is explained.
>>> ...
>>
>> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7991.html#element.rfc.attribute.consensus>
>
> I’m not sure whether you are serious when you say the attribute is “explained” there.
> Yes, there is text about this attribute.
> No, it is not explained.
> The reference to 7841 just points to more text about “consensus” there, but not about the meaning of this attribute.

There's more text at
<https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7991.html#attribute-consensus>;
and the main definition should reference that:

> A.3. The "consensus" Attribute
>
> For some of the publication streams (see Appendix A.2), the "Status of This Memo" section depends on whether there was a consensus to publish (again, see Section 3.4 of [RFC7841]).
>
> The consensus attribute can be used to supply this information. The acceptable values are "true" (the default) and "false"; "yes" and "no" from v2 are deprecated.
>
> The effect of this value for the various streams is:
>
>     "independent": none.
>     "IAB": mention that there was an IAB consensus.
>     "IETF": mention that there was an IETF consensus.
>     "IRTF": mention that there was a research group consensus (where the name of the research group is extracted from the <workgroup> element).

Best regards, Julian