[Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs
Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> Mon, 02 February 2026 03:20 UTC
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On 02-Feb-26 15:11, John R Levine wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2026, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> A facility to preserve information in the publication form for another authoring cycle definitely is, though.
>
> It is my strong impression that's what RFCXML is supposed to be. I
> realize there are people who consider XML to be unreadable, but I'd prefer
> to have that fight somewhere else.
>
> Adding MathML to it seems consistent with that plan.
Adding an <annotation/> element embedding the LaTeX source also seems consistent, and I think that is ~ what Carsten was getting at.
Brian
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Eric Rescorla
- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Martin Thomson
- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Eric Rescorla
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- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] mathematical notation in RFCs Stephen Farrell
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- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] mathematical notation in RFCs Carsten Bormann
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] mathematical notation in RFCs Paul Hoffman
- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Carsten Bormann
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] mathematical notation in RFCs Carsten Bormann
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- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Michael Richardson
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- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] mathematical notation in RFCs Paul Hoffman
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- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Michael Richardson
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] mathematical notation in RFCs Stephen Farrell
- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Carsten Bormann
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- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs John R Levine
- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Alexis Rossi
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Paul Hoffman
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Alexis Rossi
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Paul Hoffman
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Martin Thomson
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Brian E Carpenter
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Alexis Rossi
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Martin Thomson
- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs John R Levine
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Brian E Carpenter
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Martin Thomson
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs John Levine
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Brian E Carpenter
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- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Carsten Bormann
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs John R Levine
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Carsten Bormann
- [Rswg] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Martin Thomson
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs John R Levine
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Joel Halpern
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] mathematical notation in RFCs Martin Thomson
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs John R Levine
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Jay Daley
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs John R Levine
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Brian E Carpenter
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs John R Levine
- [Rswg] Re: [Ext] Re: mathematical notation in RFCs Brian Carpenter
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