Re: In support of symbolic references

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On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:00:24 +0200
Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> >> 
> > 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.
> 
No, there's no such rule; symbolic references are explicitly
permitted.  See Section 2.7 of
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-editor/instructions2authors.txt


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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