RE: An I-D experiment (Re: HTML better for small PDAs)

["Rosen, Brian" <Brian.Rosen at marconi.com>]

I think that is an excellent suggestion.

I personally would like to see a bias towards the XML source,
but leaving it "open" for now is a good step in the right
direction.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:Harald at alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:59 AM
> To: Marshall T. Rose; Vernon Schryver; ietf at ietf.org
> Subject: An I-D experiment (Re: HTML better for small PDAs)
> 
> 
> At 18:30 26/02/2001 -0800, Marshall T. Rose wrote:
> > > There is a use for XML or nroff versions of I-D's (but 
> not RFC's) that
> > > has not been mentioned much (maybe first in your mention 
> of "ASCII memos
> > > can't be reformatted").  It saves lots of work to 
> exchange editorial
> >changes
> > > as deltas to a mark up language version.
> >
> >i agree. this certainly is of value to the folks who author I-Ds.
> >
> > > Perhaps in other words, allow XML in 
> ftp.isi.edu:internet-drafts but
> > > not in ftp.isi.edu:in-notes
> >
> >i agree. i'm not asking that we publish RFCs in any new formats. i'm
> >suggesting that we experiment for 9 months in the I-D area.
> A slight modification (I changed the subject line to 
> concentrate on the 
> constructive thread out of this):
> 
> Let's say that we accept I-Ds in ASCII format.
> Let's also say that for each I-D, the secretariat will accept 
> up to 1 file 
> containing "source", where "source" can be NROFF macros, XML 
> (Marshall's 
> DTD) text or Word documents.
> 
> To be stored in the "internet-drafts/source" subdirectory.
> (for completeness, there should also be a note saying how to 
> produce the 
> ASCII from the source; my Word stuff differs from the 
> official Word stuff - 
> but this makes the use/submission more complex)
> 
> After 9 months, we can ask people to evaluate:
> 
> - Whether they used "source" at all
> - What formats they found that were useful
> - What formats they found that caused trouble
> 
> This thread should go somewhere else....
> 
> 
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