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 ====== Definitions ====== ====== Definitions ======
-Submission format, Input format = Internet-Draft as submitted to the RFC Editor; may or may not be the same as any other format (though it would make the workflow somewhat simpler for the RFC Editor if it were); if necessary, will be converted to another format for further processing and publication+Source format, aka Submission format, Input format = the format used by authors, etc., when writing an I-D. Currently: XML (can be uploaded to the I-D submission tool currently), NROFF, .doc, .txt 
 +  * may or may not be the same as any other format (though it would make the workflow somewhat simpler for the RFC Editor if it were);  
 +  * will be converted to another format for further processing and publication if necessary
  
-Canonical format = the authorized, recognized, accepted, official version of the documentother document types may be derived from this format; may or may not be one of the possible output formats+Canonical format = the authorized, recognized, accepted, official version of the document 
 +  * other document types may be derived from this format; may or may not be one of the possible output formats
  
-Archival format = currently the printed, paper copy of the RFC+Archival format = currently the printed, paper copy AND the digital .txt of the RFC 
 +  * currently the same as the canonical format
  
 Output format, Display format = format as it may be read or printed after publication process has completed; currently ASCII, PDF, and HTML are common output or display formats Output format, Display format = format as it may be read or printed after publication process has completed; currently ASCII, PDF, and HTML are common output or display formats
- +  * For I-D: TXT*, PDF*, PS*, HTML. 
-Reference format = the version of the RFC commonly used as a normative or informative reference; currently the ASCII format; need to determine if this format can/will be the equivalent to the Canonical formatand if notwhat is the appropriate format to reference +  * For RFC: TXT.TXT.PDFEnhanced PDF (rare) 
 +  * Outside RFC Editor: HTML (via rfcmarkup), HTML (via datatracker), PDF, perhaps others.
  
 ====== Physical format ====== ====== Physical format ======
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 Character encoding - UTF-8 Character encoding - UTF-8
-  * For8: Allows authors to spell their names correctly; certain special characters in equations or quoted from other texts allowed; citations of web pages using more international characters possible; in discussions of internationalization, actually being able to +  * For: Allows authors to spell their names correctly; certain special characters in equations or quoted from other texts allowed; citations of web pages using more international characters possible; in discussions of internationalization, actually being able to illustrate the issue is rather helpful, and you can't illustrate a Unicode code point with "U+nnnn".
-illustrate the issue is rather helpful, and you can't illustrate a Unicode code point with "U+nnnn".+
   * Against: Exactly what characters are allowed and where the line should be drawn remains unclear (why some characters commonly used in European languages and not other, non-Latin characters? This is just pushing the problem around.)   * Against: Exactly what characters are allowed and where the line should be drawn remains unclear (why some characters commonly used in European languages and not other, non-Latin characters? This is just pushing the problem around.)
   * Additional thoughts: just moving from ASCII to UTF-8 (as opposed to UTF-8 and HTML or XML) leaves us with dependencies on the local file systems and processors to be configured properly and do the right thing with the document though adding a byte-order mark (BOM) to the beginning of each non-HTML UTF-8 text file will go a long way towards recognition; browsers will recognize UTF-8 and can declare the encoding definitively   * Additional thoughts: just moving from ASCII to UTF-8 (as opposed to UTF-8 and HTML or XML) leaves us with dependencies on the local file systems and processors to be configured properly and do the right thing with the document though adding a byte-order mark (BOM) to the beginning of each non-HTML UTF-8 text file will go a long way towards recognition; browsers will recognize UTF-8 and can declare the encoding definitively
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   * For: We should take their needs for format flexibility (reflow) in to account   * For: We should take their needs for format flexibility (reflow) in to account
   * Against: Not enough people use mobile devices, and those that can can generally scroll, so this should be treated as an edge case at best   * Against: Not enough people use mobile devices, and those that can can generally scroll, so this should be treated as an edge case at best
-  * Additional thoughts: interesting numbers regarding mobile device web browsing: http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/b#mobilepageviews and http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/b#mobile-only+  * Additional thoughts: interesting numbers regarding mobile device web browsing: [[https://vivipins.com/mobile-marketing-statistics/]]
  
  
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