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

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

I only converted the last rfc i was editor for during the final revisions to go to rfc,
and i only did this so i could use the only one new feature of v3 that i felt i wanted
to use, name the Contributors tag. I still don't know what else i as an author
would benefit from in v3.

I did find the conversion sufficient for that last mile to RFC editor, but not persuasive to
suggest it to authors if/when they want to continue doing mayor edits to the document. This
is primarily beceause the v3 ended up with a tag-verbose XMLv3 than the v2 i had
edited for years. This specifically included inlining the rfc/draft references as opposed 
to keeping the references, but also several other tags that where written out more verbosely
and with a lot of default parameters (unnecessarily).  Hope i remember this all correctly.

This v2->v3 conversion process feels a bit like attempting to have a good idea but then
outsource the conversion cost.  Reminds me of linux. Great new SDK/Library, but now all
the third-party apps developed against an older version have to be rewritten. In comparison,
in Windows i can have 10 versions of the same core SDK co-installed and all the old but
still useful programs will still run. But no linux distributions do not support such slotting
or do not compile all old library versions, and library developers don't care about supporting
multi-slotting... *sigh*

Chers
    Toerless

On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 10:40:40PM -0400, 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.
> 
> Regards,
> John Levine, [e-mail], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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