On 22/1/19 20:31, Hector Santos wrote: > My opinion. > > My only concern is the perception that the IETF is now "requiring" to > learn a new suite of 3rd party tools for a single purpose - RFC Draft > submissions publishing. For people doing this all the time, and > probably also using the same tools for other parts of their career, I > can understand it would be productive, but not for the occasional author. > > After several decades, I believe an application level IETF online RFC > publishing tool should be available. In the past, I used XML2RFC (a > java app) to outline, produce and publish my drafts. Isn't this > available any more? I would think a HTML5 version would be doable > today, and of course, some vcs would be integrated at the backend. > > I personally don't want wish to be learning git details and all the > other scripting tools and text formats for a single purpose. I would if > I have to at some top level rudimentary level just to get the job, but > it is not desirable, and certainly not a career requirement for me. Don't worry: https://xkcd.com/1597/ (yes, there's a lot of truth to it :-) ) Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492
