In your previous mail you wrote: I deliberately wanted to make the poll binary, but my assumption is that 'neither' must mainly represent that proprietary solution. I can't imagine many people generate I-Ds using a plain text editor, => why? I used a plain text editor before moving to xml2rfc (xml edited with a plain text editor too) because of the new boiler stuff pressure... and intuitively OpenOffice doesn't seem likely either. => to prefer emacs to OOo is a subtle way to like open source (:-). It's easy to create your own poll at the same site. We're at 11/43/10 now, by the way. It looks as if XML suits about 2/3 of our authors, but we have a substantial nroff party. => nroff is not so bad. The problem is the community which supported it moved to Latex many years ago... And for short I-Ds direct writing is easier/faster/etc. BTW IMHO the best tool should be so painful that I-Ds would be very small (:-)? Regards Francis.Dupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PS: what we need is a rfc2xml. It seems there is a secret rfc2nroff... _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf