I stumbled on a link to a rather interesting "word processor" called Draft: The main claim to fame here is support for collaborative writing and review with better incremental/history management than certain other browser-centric document production tools. It also uses a wiki-like inline markup language for formatting, which it translates to HTML markup for display. This raises some thoughts: 1) Something like Draft might make a simpler tool for I-D collaboration than github (which I used recently for a large I-D project). An author team could make use of it as-is. 2) Perhaps a wiki-like formatting language could be adapted to I-D writing; it could be made to generate XML2RFC output instead of HTML. If we had a "Draft" that generated XML2RFC (particularly with a bi-directional transform) and a closely-mated issue tracker, the combination might be very cool. -- Dean Willis |