Re: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 03:48:07PM -0400, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> So there can be an "official" plain text version in that it
> > is on the RFC Editor's website, but it is not authoritative or immutable.
> >
> 
> There already is an official plain text rendering on the RFC
> Editor's website. See, for example,
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8905.txt, and
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8905, which has the button to press to
> get it.

Right.  My point is that it is only "official" in scare quotes, since it's
not the immutable archival artifact representing the RFC.

> That said, the plain text version is the least useful rendering for
> reading, since it can't include any SVG drawings. It's really only useful
> as input to rfcdiff. If you want to read on a screen, use the HTML
> rendering, and if you want to print it, use the PDF rendering.

Of course.

-Ben




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