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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 26 October 2020 17:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On 2020-10-26, at 16:04, David Noveck <davenoveck@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Obviously, with canonical XML, there is no good solution to this problem: 
> 
> It's not clear what problem you are referring to.

The problem will become very evident once you get an RFP asking that your product implement the procedure on page 68 of RFC 9815.

You cannot really argue this based on whether people SHOULD be using section numbers etc.  This is a real downside in the real world.

Now whether that downside is overriding all the other upsides of having page numbers, can be a subject of discussion.

Grüße, Carsten

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