Re: New ID-Checklist to replace ID-nits (fwd)

[Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Scott Bradner wrote:
> >  there is absolutely no need for a crash effort to update old
> > I-Ds to have the new boilerplate. 
> 
> agreed - but there is little reason to not change the boilerplate
> when an ID is updated for other reasons

Remember, many folks aren't hand-editing their documents with notepad
:).  Some may use Word templates (where changing this is probably
possible).  Quite a few use their more or less custom nroff (-based)  
scripts (at least for earlier work items), and updating those could be
painful.  Those who have used xml even for the earlier work are in a
simple situation, but I'm not sure how feasible this is considering
xml2rfc hasn't been around and deployed for all that many years yet.

I.e., what I'm saying is that changing the boilerplates might in many 
cases also imply changing the document formatting tools in flight, 
which might be considered undesirable just for this purpose.

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