Hi Alexis, Thanks for posting this. I think this is an important topic.
At present it's a bit unclear to me what this document is proposing, so I'm not sure whether I agree. It seems to me that there are two types of things that need to be specified: - The input syntax that goes into RFCXML - The output format that is going to be produced It seems like this document outsources decisions about the second of these to the RPC and doesn't say much about the first at all. As an author, however, a lot of my concerns are about being able to write documents with math in them, so I think we do need to specify some sensible thing that xml2rfc will accept, as long as that remains our common input format [0]. Accordingly, I think we need to add something like: The RPC shall define an input format for mathematical notation and requirements for enhancing xml2rfc to translate that input format into the output format defined in Section XYZ. That input format shall be based on pre-existing defined mathematical notation input formats. -Ekr [0] Recognizing here that there are questions about whether the same format should be used for draft authoring as for RFC publication. On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 11:37 AM Alexis Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We'd like to allow better mathematical notation in RFCs, so Martin, Lars > and I put together this policy draft: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs > > The language is very similar to the SVG doc that just made it through > AUTH48 [1]. > > Please let us know what you think. > > If you prefer to use github, the repository is located here: > https://github.com/alexisannerossi/id-mathinrfcs > > Thanks, > Alexis > > [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-editorial-rswg-svgsinrfcs/04/ > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 11:11 AM > Subject: New Version Notification for draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.txt > To: Alexis Rossi <[email protected]>, Lars Eggert <[email protected]>, > Martin Thomson <[email protected]> > > > A new version of Internet-Draft draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.txt has been > successfully submitted by Alexis Rossi and posted to the > IETF repository. > > Name: draft-rossi-mathinrfcs > Revision: 00 > Title: Mathematical notation in RFCs > Date: 2026-01-27 > Group: Individual Submission > Pages: 4 > URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.txt > Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs/ > HTML: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs-00.html > HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-rossi-mathinrfcs > > > Abstract: > > This document defines policy and allows new technology for the > representation of mathematical notation in RFCXML and relevant > publication formats. After implementation of this policy, > mathematical notation in RFCXML and the HTML publication format will > no longer be accepted in Unicode or Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs). > -- > rswg mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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