[rfc-i] Re: [xml2rfc] request to deprecate numeric citations in xml2rfc

[Paul Hoffman / VPNC]

At 8:54 AM -0500 1/12/05, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
>I have to (partially) agree with Brian. Unless the symbolic 
>references are sorted alphabetically, it is a royal pain to find the 
>reference in a list that is more than a few entries long.

And, indeed the symbolic references should be alphabetized. Symbolic 
references are much more useful to the reader than numeric 
references, and having authors alphabetize is not onerous.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium