We don’t have a supported author friendly for a for ID’s. This is really 
getting ahead of ourselves.

I expect we will agree to support some flavor of markdown at some point, but 
we’re not there yet.

Please consider the environment before reading this message.
John Levine, [email protected] 

> On Jan 31, 2026, at 22:24, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 01-Feb-26 15:54, John Levine wrote:
>> It appears that Brian E Carpenter  <[email protected]> said:
>>>> 1. I'm not opposed to saying that MathML is what needs to go into RFC XML, 
>>>> but weakly prefer not to.
>>> 
>>> I think we can say that it's an RPC decision but that MathML is a strong 
>>> candidate.
>> Sure. Perhaps the draft can refer to those two reports.
>>>> 2. I'm somewhat opposed to saying that LaTeX is a format that authors need 
>>>> to have available to them.  Only really because it's
>>> a little outside of this groups policy scope.
>>> 
>>> Agreed, but again it can be cited as a strong candidate. As far as I can 
>>> tell it is by a large margin the solution most widely
>>> used by mathematicians and scientists (and has been since the 1980s).
>> I don't think that authoring tools are in the scope of this document.  Very 
>> few
>> of us write RFCs directly in XML and we seem to survive.  Similarly I doubt 
>> many
>> people will write math expressions directly in MathML.
> 
> I agree, but maybe it's a matter of policy to say that there should be a 
> supported author-friendly format. I won't fight on the barricades for that, 
> however.
> 
>   Brian
> 

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