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Re: [Tools-discuss] .txt? [I-D Action: draft-xxx.txt]

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 27 June 2021 06:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] .txt? [I-D Action: draft-xxx.txt]
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On 27. Jun 2021, at 04:40, John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Among the many things on the to-do list is to redo the I-D submission page
>>> to make it clearer that you only need to submit one version of a draft,
>>> and that we'd appreciate the XML version if you have one.
>> 
>> Excellent. Is there any reason not to run the v2 to v3 converter automatically?
> 
> We really want people to stop using v2.  It's obsolete and missing some semantic features of v3.

People are now often submitting v2 with v3 features, which is perfectly fine until v3 stabilises.
Why doesn’t the submission page run this through the v2 to v3 converter?

The behaviour that runs last decade’s tools when it detects v2 may have been acceptable as a safety measure for a couple of months when the transition started but is completely broken now.  This really needs to be fixed NOW.  Sheesh.

Grüße, Carsten

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