Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

[Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie>]

Carl Malamud wrote:
> This is not a job for a committee-of-the-whole ... I'd be
> perfectly happy to let the IAB or IESG pick a religion and let
> a working group define the rules of procedure.  And, again,
> piggybacking on the w3c religion seems like a really easy
> way out of this never-ending debate.  

As a point of information, although w3c do do a fine job, they
do change their Pubrules [1] now and then too, so that roughly
every time you get to the equivalent of the rfc-editor, some
subtle rule has changed and you have to figure stuff out. Not
a show-stopper, but w3c's approach isn't hassle free and
mightn't travel that well in some respects.

Having said that, I'd be for us experimenting with a parallel
ascii/w3c-html approach and we even have an excellent precedent
with xmldsig [2,3].

Stephen.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Guide/pubrules
[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3275.txt
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/

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