RE: Alternative formats for IDs

["Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s at rad.com>]

Title: Re: Alternative formats for IDs

 

> Word is of course out of the question since it is proprietary,
> undocumented, and unstable.  I hope we have consensus on that.

Sorry, no such consensus.

 

I don't see why the editor you use needs to be open-standard.

As far as I know the IETF is attempting to standardize IP-related

communications protocols, not editors.

 

I do hope that the monitor and keyboard you are using

while reading and sending emails have their schematic diagrams

in the public domain. And please do not write any IETF documents

while using a mouse from a certain proprietary company who holds

dozens of patents on mouse technology.

 

More seriously, Word is the only commonly used editor

with an integrated tracking mechanism. I assume that even

the purists who insist on nroff occasionally write an ID

with others. I personally prefer to use TeX as a typesetting

format when writing on my own, but use word for IDs

since I have to cooperate with co-authors.

 

Y(J)S

 

 

 

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