Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

["Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>]

Douglas Otis <dotis at mail dash abuse dot org> wrote:

> Word's closed code is continuously changing.   Availability of this 
> closed application depends upon OS compatibility and version 
> regressions.   Both are moving targets.  In addition, Word formats 
> permit inclusion of potentially destructive scripts within highly 
> flexible and obfuscating structures...

I didn't hear anyone ask to make evil Word from evil Microsoft the 
standard format for I-Ds and RFCs.  I did hear a suggestion to enhance 
xml2rfc so it can interpret the XML generated by evil Word.  The 
resulting code generated by xml2rfc would presumably have all of the 
evilness purged.

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