Hiya,
I had a read but am not that keen on this approach to improving things. I reckon a better approach might be to open up the RFC series to additional forms of mathematical notation as being allowed, and then later, if some become dominant, deprecate others. Starting off, as this does, by saying: "you can't do what you've been doing, but you must now start doing some other thing we've not defined yet" seems wrong. I'm fine if the RPC decide which kinds of notation are included in the set that's ok (in consultation with the community etc.) but deprecating old ones should clear a higher bar of some sort I think. Cheers, S. On 27/01/2026 19:36, Alexis Rossi wrote:
Hello, We'd like to allow better mathematical notation in RFCs, so Martin, Lars and I put together this policy draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs The language is very similar to the SVG doc that just made it through AUTH48 [1]. Please let us know what you think. If you prefer to use github, the repository is located here: https://github.com/alexisannerossi/id-mathinrfcs Thanks, Alexis [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-editorial-rswg-svgsinrfcs/04/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 11:11 AM Subject: New Version Notification for draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.txt To: Alexis Rossi <[email protected]>, Lars Eggert <[email protected]>, Martin Thomson <[email protected]> A new version of Internet-Draft draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Alexis Rossi and posted to the IETF repository. Name: draft-rossi-mathinrfcs Revision: 00 Title: Mathematical notation in RFCs Date: 2026-01-27 Group: Individual Submission Pages: 4 URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.txt Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs/ HTML: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.html HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs Abstract: This document defines policy and allows new technology for the representation of mathematical notation in RFCXML and relevant publication formats. After implementation of this policy, mathematical notation in RFCXML and the HTML publication format will no longer be accepted in Unicode or Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs).
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