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

[Tim Bray <tbray at textuality.com>]

On Jun 16, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Joe Touch wrote:

> Forcing the input format means one of two things:
>
> 	- edit source code (argh - back to the stone age)

I think we would generally get better results if Internet Standards  
were authored by people who are comfortable editing source code.

> 	- force a limited set of editing software

That's a fair complaint.

But for what it's worth, professional reference publishing  
organizations, who care a whole lot about the longevity and re- 
usability of the material they create, generally do standardize on  
the editable input format, and assume there will be a variety of  
output formats generated to meet consumer needs, which change from  
place to place and time to time.  -Tim


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