At 9:28 PM -0600 3/21/06, Stephen Hayes (TX/EUS) wrote:
> From: Elwyn Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
s3.19: I think that we should explicitly require that the editorial
style guide is published.
I thought the IETF was trying to stay away from an explicit style guide.
That would be a Bad Thing. Having a style guide helps reduce the
number of edits that a conscientious author will face in Auth48. It
is very disconcerting to have, for example, to have the title of your
RFC-to-be changed just before it is published based on style
considerations that you didn't know about.
I had not explicitly assumed that a style guide exists in the
requirements. In my experience having a published style guide
starts you down the road to fairly bureaucratic processing of
documents and only really starts becoming useful when you shift away
from ascii or xml generated drafts.
Going down that road is not a requirement. Many of us who have
written books for multiple publishers have seen a range of how
bureaucratic the copyediting and formatting of documents based on
house style guides.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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