John L

Since it's the issue of when and how to change the XML grammar, I wouldn't hold my breath. For this particular bug, since cref sections can't be normative, how about...

xml2rfc only has one grammar. Maybe it would be a good idea to have separate grammars for I-Ds and RFCs, but that's not how it works now. As I think...

You're right. The BSD code license only applies to documents with the normal TLP license, not to the no-modification one. This bit us earlier this year when the robots.txt draft...

Suggest truncate and notify, don't try anything more clever than that.

@dkg I've found it a lot easier to set up a venv and run xml2rfc in that, letting it pull in the library versions it needs rather than trying to...

> I'd prefer to ensure that the software i'm running is also in debian, as that ecosystem has a better history of long-term maintenance and reproducibility than any language-specific library...

The problem is that the addresses are currently fed into an abandonware library for formatting, and it has an internal table that maps country names into address formats. With the...

I don’t suppose we’ve had any authors from The Bahamas, The Gambia, or The Sudan. Anyway I’d rather delegate the decision to sensible editors than the abandonware library.

From munging is an ancient hack dating from the 1970s because the Unix mbox format uses "From " as a separator line. That's a lot older than any cryptographic software...

Take another look at my note. The actual message ID contained = and + signs that disappeared by the time it was put in the archive. They were present in...