Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?
Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 26 October 2020 21:37 UTC
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Subject: Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?
To: John Scudder <jgs@juniper.net>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:37:39 +1300
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On 27-Oct-20 10:14, John Scudder wrote: > On Oct 26, 2020, at 2:56 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com <mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> As Julian Reschke observed on the rfc-interest list, since the >> new RFC format was implemented: >> >>> page numbers should not be used to refer to parts of the >>> RFC, because page breaks vary with output formats >> >> So I can only see confusion if people use page numbers for >> any purpose whatever. So it doesn't matter if people want >> page numbers; they're now useless. So I won't be answering >> a poll, and I don't think the results are interesting. > > The argument that page numbers are harmful as a way of referring to a section of the RFC is reasonable. > > The argument that page numbers are harmful for *any* *purpose* *whatever* is not reasonable. To offer one glaringly obvious counterexample, people (I, for one) sometimes print RFCs for the purpose of reading them. Sometimes we want to make use of some kind of facility for indexing from a list of headings to facilitate direct access to the right section of the pile of printout. A table of contents, in short. This is literally what tables of contents were invented for. They remain useful for this purpose… unless some bright spark chooses to remove the page numbers from them, because they forgot what tables of contents are FOR. Well yes... but iirc the input to the new format discussion was that most people read RFCs and drafts on-screen and mostly with the htmlized versions. So the needs of the occasional eccentrics who print them for off-line reading were set aside. (I can say that because I am such an eccentric.) > (Also, I think the use of the ToC for quickly estimating a document’s throw weight is a valid one. I previously suggested associating a BogoPages metric with each non paginated RFC for this purpose.) Well, the byte count serves fairly well for that too. Regards Brian
- Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / prefe… Toerless Eckert
- Re: Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / p… David Noveck
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Carsten Bormann
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Toerless Eckert
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… David Noveck
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Toerless Eckert
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Benjamin Kaduk
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Toerless Eckert
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Henrik Levkowetz
- John/rsoc: Re: Page numbers in RFCs questions / p… Toerless Eckert
- Re: John/rsoc: Re: Page numbers in RFCs questions… John R. Levine
- Re: John/rsoc: Re: Page numbers in RFCs questions… Robert Sparks
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Carsten Bormann
- Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? (w… Toerless Eckert
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Toerless Eckert
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) … Robert Sparks
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Warren Kumari
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Acee Lindem (acee)
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Toerless Eckert
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? John Scudder
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Jeffrey Haas
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Carsten Bormann
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Benjamin Kaduk
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Wes Hardaker
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Flemming Andreasen
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Henk Birkholz
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Andrew G. Malis
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? John C Klensin
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Henk Birkholz
- Re: [rfc-i] [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFC… Toerless Eckert
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Toerless Eckert
- Re: [rfc-i] [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFC… Wes Hardaker
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Toerless Eckert
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? David Noveck
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? John C Klensin
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Toerless Eckert
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Ronald Tse
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? John C Klensin
- Re: Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / p… Fred Baker
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Toerless Eckert
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … John C Klensin
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Ronald Tse
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Ronald Tse
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … John C Klensin
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Ronald Tse
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Larry Masinter
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Keith Drage
- Re: [irsg] [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (… Carsten Bormann
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Paul Kyzivat
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Toerless Eckert
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … HANSEN, TONY L
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Henrik Levkowetz
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … HANSEN, TONY L
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Paul Kyzivat
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Jeffrey Haas
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Henrik Levkowetz
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Toerless Eckert
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Benjamin Kaduk
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Jeffrey Haas
- Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questi… Benjamin Kaduk
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … HANSEN, TONY L
- RE: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Andrew Campling
- Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? Mark Andrews
- Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty … Paul Kyzivat