Re: An I-D experiment (Re: HTML better for small PDAs)

[Marshall T. Rose]

> Taking the sort of paranoid approach that befits assurances of stability,
> needed for people doing critical operations, I look for a well-established
> range of products and for wide-spread use.  Because IETF documents are
used
> far beyond the confines of the IETF, the term "wide-spread" needs to work
> with Internet scaling, not just IETF scaling.

dave - i don't know how to say this politely, so i'll just say it: the ietf
is one of the least xml-friendly communities out there. i think that colors
your thinking.

> Until then, it is not appropriate to change the massively-stable base that
> forms the encoding rules for RFCs.  XML as an adjunct is fine.  As a
> primary form for RFCs?  Not yet.

err, i don't recall anyone proposing this. if you're going to argue against
something, first make sure that someone proposed it, ok?

/mtr