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Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Mon, 26 October 2020 15:14 UTC

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:14:03 +0100
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: David Noveck <davenoveck@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, WG Chairs <wgchairs@ietf.org>, RFC Interest <rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:04:49AM -0400, David Noveck wrote:
> > I think what happened is that nobody thought about PDF where we continue
> > to have pages,
> 
>  I think that's probably true.

I always printed the .txt RFCs.

Pages are also a perfectly valid concept in the absence of sheets.
Its a measurement for the amount of text that is quite useful.

Cheers
    Toerless

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