"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:19:11 +0200 > Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Hi. I'm sitting here reviewing changes to a document to see if I >> > can last call it. >> > >> > As part of a response to AD review comments, one of the references >> > were changed. This document uses numeric references. Starting at >> > reference 16, everything was renumbered. That makes the diff a >> > pain. >> > >> > For this and many other reasons, I strongly encourage people to >> > avoid numeric references in their documents. >> >> That makes sense, but I believe the default for the xml2rfc tool is to >> produce numeric references. Does xml2rfc support symbolic references? >> If the defaults in xml2rfc is changed to symbolic references, I think >> we'd see that a lot of documents would adopt the new approach. >> > Use the line > > <?rfc symrefs="yes" ?> > > to get symbolic references. Neat. Maybe we can lobby for it to become the default. Is there some IDNit rule that suggest or imply that references should be numeric? A lot of documents have numeric references, so I could imagine that it is used in some examples, and therefor used by default by tools. /Simon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf