David Morris wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Robinson Tryon wrote: > > > > If authors take on the responsibility of creating and verifying the > > fidelity of exported versions, then I think everything will be peachy. > > What can we do to encourage this practice? > > Start by compensating them for the work required to conform to this > requirement? > > The IETF is a bunch of volunteers, most of whom carve out time for > participation from time needed to satisfy other responsiblities. > > The authors already have issues with the basic tool set and compatiblity > with the computing environments needed for other life responsiblities. > Now you want to dictate a new step. The awkward xml2rfc I-D authoring process can hardly be compared to the effort of a minuscule mousemove when saving your presentation. The additional effort on save + upload (especially for those boasting about bleeding-edge bells'n'whistles slide-making software) is less than 10 seconds to select a different format (PDF) on save. For the data that is uploaded during the IETF Meeting (which is a significant fraction) network bandwith is not an issue, its local. Assuming an engineer with $100/hour, 10 seconds = 0.28 cents. How about the IESG having a box of special brownies at IETF meetings to reward those nice presentations authors who save the all of the IETF participants downloading form datatracker combined a few hours hours per document. -Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf