I think that is an excellent suggestion.
I personally would like to see a bias towards the XML source,
but leaving it "open" for now is a good step in the right
direction.
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:59 AM
> To: Marshall T. Rose; Vernon Schryver; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: An I-D experiment (Re: HTML better for small PDAs)
>
>
> At 18:30 26/02/2001 -0800, Marshall T. Rose wrote:
> > > There is a use for XML or nroff versions of I-D's (but
> not RFC's) that
> > > has not been mentioned much (maybe first in your mention
> of "ASCII memos
> > > can't be reformatted"). It saves lots of work to
> exchange editorial
> >changes
> > > as deltas to a mark up language version.
> >
> >i agree. this certainly is of value to the folks who author I-Ds.
> >
> > > Perhaps in other words, allow XML in
> ftp.isi.edu:internet-drafts but
> > > not in ftp.isi.edu:in-notes
> >
> >i agree. i'm not asking that we publish RFCs in any new formats. i'm
> >suggesting that we experiment for 9 months in the I-D area.
> A slight modification (I changed the subject line to
> concentrate on the
> constructive thread out of this):
>
> Let's say that we accept I-Ds in ASCII format.
> Let's also say that for each I-D, the secretariat will accept
> up to 1 file
> containing "source", where "source" can be NROFF macros, XML
> (Marshall's
> DTD) text or Word documents.
>
> To be stored in the "internet-drafts/source" subdirectory.
> (for completeness, there should also be a note saying how to
> produce the
> ASCII from the source; my Word stuff differs from the
> official Word stuff -
> but this makes the use/submission more complex)
>
> After 9 months, we can ask people to evaluate:
>
> - Whether they used "source" at all
> - What formats they found that were useful
> - What formats they found that caused trouble
>
> This thread should go somewhere else....
>
>
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