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 A few people have been messing about with XML-ising RFCs. There used to be a company (which I can no longer find; XML and RFC gets far too many matches in Google) who were paying students to mark up RFCs into their XML structure. There have been a few efforts to do basic markup of RFCs in XML, but too many of them still just rely on large <pre> - style sections for the diagrams and so on. What would be ideal is to have something like DocBook for RFCs, that can be rendered into the standard plain text style with a combination of XSLT and other software, but can also be put into HTML and other formats. And the real killer app would be if the ABNF and packet diagrams had a formal notation in the XML, making it possible for protocol analyser tools like Ethereal and tcpdump to take RFCs as input and automatically generate parsers for IETF protocols! Particularly useful in the Assigned Numbers RFCs. There are three prongs to this work: 1) Making a decent DTD that handles all the different types of tables and diagrams found in RFCs, or at least the important ones; diagrams that are purely for illustration would have less priority than diagrams that could be used to automatically drive conformance test systems and derive skeleton implementations. 2) Marking up existing RFCs (time consuming, but individually trivial) 3) Getting the IETF interested in publishing new RFCs in this format for the greater good of humanity Comments? ABS -- A city is like a large, complex, rabbit - ARP 
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