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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sun, 27 June 2021 05:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] .txt? [I-D Action: draft-xxx.txt]
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On 27-Jun-21 14:40, John R Levine 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.

I fully agree. But isn't the submission page the primary place to put the necessary nudges and warnings?

I'm sure you and Robert know this, but between the ancient state of https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/ and the confusing state of https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/experimental.html, what is a poor user supposed to do, if they don't want to install and maintain their own copy of everything?

    Brian

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