On 5/15/19 6:09 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
p.s. The failure so far to find a good way of annotating text in HTML
actually illustrates a deep underlying flaw in the SGML/XML/HTML model of
text - annotated text is not hierarchically structured (even if the subject
text is, which is by no means certain) and Procrustean attempts to annotated
text into a tree-structured model are somewhere between needlessly complex
or doomed to failure.
Yes, no HTML for IETF email work.
The practical consequence of which might "everybody who wants to
participate in IETF should use a different (approved) MUA for IETF work".
I don't like it, but maybe we need to find a way to let people use
modern/broken MUAs.
But it's certainly fair to recognize that email is becoming
more-and-more broken all the time as various vendors decide to make
arbitrary changes to how they construct sent emails and/or present
received emails.
(resisting the temptation to add a litany of heinous practices here)
Keith
