Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)
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Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)




Julian Reschke wrote:
> Joe Touch schrieb:
>>
>> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:01:22AM -0700,
>>>  Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU> wrote  a message of 34 lines which said:
>>>
>>>>> IMHO, IETF should always publish the "source" of its documents
>>>>> (the current RFC process is far from perfect in that respect).
>>>> Which source
>>> The source. The author certainly knows it (yes, I'm aware that the RFC
>>> editor performs changes which are not backported in the author's copy,
>>> a really annoying thing; that's why I said the current process is
>>> bad).
>>
>> That's part of the problem. The other is that 'source' is useful only
>> with a snapshot of the tools that are used to process it. XML2RFC is a
>> moving target in that regard, as is Word.
> 
> Re XML2RFC: why do you need a snapshot if future development produces
> versions that continue to implement the semantics defined in RFC2629?

It doesn't use 2329; it extends it based on its unofficial successor
(see the web pages).

Joe

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