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Re: [Tools-discuss] Bizarre error in bibxml3

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 06 May 2021 05:08 UTC

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Now https://github.com/rfc-format/draft-flanagan-7322bis/issues/2

Grüße, Carsten


> On 2021-04-27, at 18:33, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
> 
> During the discussions that led to XMLv3, I proposed that we get rid of the "initials" field altogether and only use full names or surnames. Using initials is a historic academic format created by people who didn't care about names that don't easily have clear initials.
> 
> My proposal failed, and yet we still have the same problems. I would be happy to again suggest that Internet Drafts and RFCs refer to authors by their actual names, not forced into a construct that is trivially shown to hamper both understanding while reading and searchability of our documents.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman
>

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