On 10/10/11 02:23 , t.petch wrote: > ---- Original Message ----- > From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> > To: "t.petch" <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Frank Ellermann" <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@xxxxxxxxx>; <ietf@ > ietf.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 3:07 PM > > >> >> On 2011-10-08 09:20, t.petch wrote: >> >> If I'm looking for an internet draft where I only know parts of the name I >> usually use a search engine; that's what they are for. >> With the current flavour of the IETF web site, I usually go via charters - > WG - >> I-D list and then find 103 I-Ds in an order I cannot divine, give up and > accept >> that I will have to type in >> d r a f t - i e t f - w g etc etc. Another waste of my time along with gif >> download, xml processing etc oh, did I mention all the javascripts that try to >> out think me and get in the way? mutter mutter >> ... >> >> What does XML have to do with all of this? > > Julian > > On a thread on this list some time ago, IANA reported progress in converting > their web site to XML and at the same time, apologised for how long it now takes > to access the Port Registry. Having accessed it - a good chance to complete The > Times crossword! - I found an XML file in excess of 1Mbyte on my workstation. It's in excess of a bit more than a megabyte. Zorch:Desktop jjaeggli$ du -h service-names-port-numbers.xml 3.8M (as rendered using the xsl) service-names-port-numbers.xml 3.0M (bare) service-names-port-numbers.xml > Making a wild leap of imagination, I guessed that the time it took to access the > web page was due, at least in part, to these multi-megagbytes of XML, but I > could be wrong. when we make dogfood, we can be expected to eat it from time to time. just maybe a flat file of structured data isn't the best way to render 9125 registerd ports and 4330 people for the web. > Tom Petch >> >> Best regards, Julian >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf