On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:25 AM Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28 Nov 2019, at 8:33, John C Klensin wrote:
> (copying the IETF list -- this is not an ART matter alone)
> Hi. I realize it is very late, probably too late, to be
> complaining about this, but my clear recollection was that, when
> the v3 project was started, the community was promised that,
> while the authoritative/ canonical/ archival format would shift
> to the XML and fully-functional HTML and PDF format (not just
> HTML and PDF produced from plain text forms) would become
> available, the plain text format would be preserved sufficiently
> that tools [1] that were designed for, and used with, RFCs for
> the last 40-odd years would continue to work and work equally
> well [2].
I strongly believe you are wrong: no such promise was made. If you can
find any actual message that made such a promise, I'm happy to stand
corrected.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/format-faq/#10 points to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6949.html#section-3.3, which explicitly retires pagination as a goal.
Jeffrey
