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Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Hi, Thanks for this. Is there any reason not to add the stream info to the .txt version of the index? Regards Brian
Brian,This is the result of a 10-year old policy at the RFC Editor. After Joyce and I took over the job, the desire arose to add additional fields to rfc-index.txt. However, input from various people in the community convinced us that a fair number of hard-core Internauts had written their own code to parse the obscure syntax of rfc-index.txt and reformat it for their own purposes. We feared that adding new fields to rfc-index.txt would screw these people. We therefore decided to freeze the format of rfc-index.txt at the 1989 level, and instead make an html version (and later an xml version) with extended fields. So all changes or extensions to the index format go only into the .xml and .html versions.
Now that XML has taken over the world, maybe this policy should be revisited.
Bob Braden