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Re: page headers in I-Ds



On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:03:26PM +0300, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:

> I just encountered a case where smistrip did not perform well with an
> I-D that passed the id-nits tool filter because it expected the page
> headers to be formatted exactly as xml2rfc if formatting. 
>  
> However, life is more interesting, and some people still use nroff or
> word. 
>  
> Does anyone know a reference that says how header format should look
> like in an I-D, saying for example that "Internet Draft" is OK, but
> "Internet-Draft" is not?

I recall the times where ID was really easy to create because there
were almost no rules, no legal blabla, and just someone who checked
the name and put the file on an FTP server. I would love to go back to
those times, but I realize that the IETF has passed the point of
return.

/js

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