Re: RFCs should be distributed in XML (Was: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

[Andrew Newton <andy at hxr.us>]

On Nov 8, 2005, at 4:26 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> BTW, does anyone who knows IETF and the RFC-editor function better
> than I do, can tell why RFC 2629 is not the mandatory official format
> for RFC, even now after six years?

My guess is that it is not a trivial matter to convert RFCs submitted  
in other forms into 2629 xml format.  And though I prefer to use  
xml2rfc, there are many people desiring some of the word processor  
features (track changes, etc...) that are just not found in the xml  
authoring tools.

-andy

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