Re: New Version Notification for draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-02.txt

[Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>
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> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:41:51 -0700
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> On Sep 28, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen () fh-muenster de> wrote:
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> > On 28. Sep 2020, at 20:26, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf () sandelman ca> wrote:
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> > > internet-drafts () ietf org wrote:
> > > > Diff:
> > > > https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-02
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> > > Hi, I have converted the xml to markdown.
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> > Why? If we want to publish this, it will be published in xmlv3. So
> > better to use that format earlier...
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> There are tools to convert Markdown to v2 or v3 RFC XML:
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>         https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/tools/
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> so:
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>         1) is it easier to edit Markdown or RFC XML?
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>         2) is Markdown rich enough to do everything we want to do?
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> For 2), I note that
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>         https://github.com/pcapng/pcapng/blob/master/draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng.md
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> has a bunch of stuff that GitHub isn't treating as markup, such as the stuff prior to the "Introduction" heading, and 
> the tags such as "{::boilerplate bcp14}".  Is that an extension of Markdown not supported by GitHub's Markdown renderer 
> but supported by some Markdown-to-RFC XML converter, or incomplete parts of the RFC XML to Markdown conversion?
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> In addition, the XML version at
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>         https://github.com/pcapng/pcapng/blob/master/reference-draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng.xml
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> has some additional Decryption Secrets Block secret formats.  Those have data formats that *themselves* call for 
> figures, and I'd been trying, at one point, to determine how to do that in RFC XML v2 format - it might require v3 
> format.  Can that be handled with Markdown?
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