I think there are quite a few reasons. Mine are:
1) Ability to render in alternate ways to improve
readability and accessibility
2) Ability to cross reference documents
3) More uniformity in, e.g. references
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hoffman / IMC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:06 PM
> To: Rosen, Brian; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml
>
>
> At 6:15 PM -0400 8/27/03, Rosen, Brian wrote:
> >I therefore have a modest proposal:
> >
> >Allow the submission of an xml file meeting the requirements
> of RFC2629
> >along with the text file (and optional ps file) for an
> Internet Draft.
>
> You didn't say what the additional value would be. We know the
> additional value of a .ps file (drawings that don't translate to
> ASCII art). What is the value of XML? It certainly isn't
> searchability or readability.
>
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --Internet Mail Consortium
>
