On 10/28/25 5:25 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
On Oct 28, 2025, at 22:58, Jean Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
FWIW, the LARGE GREEN CIRCLE doesn't display in the PDF format of the I-D:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/pdf/draft-rswg-rfc7997bis-05
The datatracker uses its own PDF generation mechanism that is unrelated to the
xml2rfc-based one used by the RPC.
This mechanism has its own bugs and leads to all kinds of spurious review
comments when people are using those PDFs to review drafts.
I have no idea why we are doing this.
Because people have insisted on it in the past (they wanted pdf of the
htmlized documents from before the rfcxml era).
This needs to stop and the broken PDFs discarded.
I would like to make exactly this change. In addition to the review
confusion you mention, there are potential security issues with running
the transformation and the tradeoffs managing the resulting documents to
consider. I think we have agreement in the IESG, at least, to stop
producing these as well, but am looking/asking for an artifact saying so.
There is a parallel discussion at creating pdf out of ppt* for slides at
meetings instead of asking people to make their own pdf and supply it.
Grüße, Carsten
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