On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 01:39:38PM -0700, Bob Braden wrote: > It would be good if RFC authors put atleast as much care into the > clarity and organization of their contents as you are devoting to a > discussion of the formatting. The contents are what matter, and fancy > formatting may (or may not) be a distraction from the more important > issues of contents. I fully agree, and it is why I was so vexed by Donald Eastlake's inital claim that the I-D and RFC format is "plain ASCII". In my view, we have an actual serious problem in that there is an increasingly high barrier to I-D submission because idnits has a large number of rules, nearly all of which are about formatting. I don't believe that authors of documents or WG-appointed editors ought to have to worry terribly much about that, except maybe near the time when the document is ready for publication. It's absurd, given the tools available, that document authors need to worry as much about line lengths and number of pages (!) in initial submissions as they need to worry about completeness and clarity of their text. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf