Hi, The draft says:
"Mathematical notation in RFCs will no longer be accepted in Unicode or Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) for RFCXML or the HTML publication format." I think that has to be qualified. It could happen that a diagram contains a fragment of math notation, for example in the label of the axis of a graph, and we don't want to accidentally forbid that. Regards/Ngā mihi Brian Carpenter On 28-Jan-26 08:36, 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 <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 <https://github.com/alexisannerossi/id-mathinrfcs> Thanks, Alexis [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-editorial-rswg-svgsinrfcs/04/ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-editorial-rswg-svgsinrfcs/04/> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>>, Lars Eggert <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, Martin Thomson <[email protected] <mailto:[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 <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.txt> Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs/ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs/> HTML: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.html <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.html> HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs <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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