In message <ed6d469d0511240917u349654b5g3caeba38f5ee9c9a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bill Fenner writes: >On 11/24/05, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If we adopt some new format, though, I think we >> really need the ability to generate diffs of different versions of the >> same document. > >The solution that comes to mind for diffs is to format the old version >(to text), format the new version, and use the existing tools >(htmlwdiff, rfcdiff, or others). There's no sensible way to do a diff >of a graphic so I think diffing the text form is sensible. > That's certainly one reasonable approach. My concern was if we decided that PDF was the right way to publish RFCs -- we'd have no easy way to do diffs, since some people would use XML, some Word, some OpenOffice, etc. Put another way, I'm primarily stating a requirement. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf