I think there are quite a few reasons. Mine are: 1) Ability to render in alternate ways to improve readability and accessibility 2) Ability to cross reference documents 3) More uniformity in, e.g. references Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Hoffman / IMC [mailto:phoffman@imc.org] > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:06 PM > To: Rosen, Brian; 'ietf@ietf.org' > Subject: Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml > > > At 6:15 PM -0400 8/27/03, Rosen, Brian wrote: > >I therefore have a modest proposal: > > > >Allow the submission of an xml file meeting the requirements > of RFC2629 > >along with the text file (and optional ps file) for an > Internet Draft. > > You didn't say what the additional value would be. We know the > additional value of a .ps file (drawings that don't translate to > ASCII art). What is the value of XML? It certainly isn't > searchability or readability. > > --Paul Hoffman, Director > --Internet Mail Consortium >