RE: MIB template issues

["David B Harrington" <dbharrington@comcast.net>]

Hi Mike,

> Ironically, I did try to strictly follow the guidelines in 2223bis
> when I laid out the sections in the MIB review guidelines doc, and
> so RFC 4181 has (unnumbered) appendices before the (unnumbered)
> references.  But I did it all in nroff.  Some time ago Bert floated
> the idea of converting the guidelines doc into xml2rfc.  Looks like
> my efforts to follow the published style rules have made that hard.

1) s/published style rules/proposed style recommendations/

"Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
   and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
any
   time."

"We therefore recommend that, in general,
         references follow the Appendixes in an RFC."

2) I STRONGLY recommend xml2rfc. XML is being taught in schools; I
don't know how much nroff is being taught now. If you plan to turn
over the editorship to others, converting to xml2rfc might give us a
larger pool of willing potential editors to draw from.

David Harrington
dbharrington@comcast.net