Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

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One of the persistent problem today is that "bis" drafts are harder to write than they should be. Rather than being able to work from the final source, there are often only almost-final, pre-RFC-editor versions in XML (or Word), where one then has to make sure that no late-stage changes are being missed. It can be done, but its tedious. (Even access to the pre-final versions relies on individuals keeping old files around.) Having a more organized and documented source management mechanism in place would help.

Joe Touch wrote:

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
...
IMHO, IETF should always publish the "source" of its documents (the
current RFC process is far from perfect in that respect).

Which source (XML2RFC is only one; some use troff, and others use Word,
among others)? Why would inter-source conversion be more useful than
cut-and-paste?

Joe



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