Closed martinthomson closed 1 year ago
There are a few tooling changes that might be worth pursuing here, but I don't intend to make any changes in response to this issue.
I believe the tooling used still creates a large number of useless and distracting links in the document. I've created an agenda item to this weeks IESG's Informal meeting to discuss this.
Was there any outcome of the IESG discussion?
(The tooling does what it is told to do. Auto-creating links obviously needs to be applied sparingly... We did have some discussion about making auto-created links less visible/inviting than manually created ones, but RFCXML is not very flexible here.)
Oh, that change actually happened:
https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/commit/dbdda51a16083da0762355ebe0902c3bc2a78a39
In xml2rfc 3.17.0.
Steps have been taken. The index remains problematic, but that's (again) on xml2rfc.
Comment by @paulwouters
It seems some automated tooling was used to creating links within the document, eg for "key configuration": 7 times in Section 3, pointing to a few lines below in section 3.1, and even one time within section 3.1 itself pointing recursively back to itself, and 3 more times in section 3.2, and then I stopped counting.
The same for things like "client", Oblivious Gateway Resource", etc etc culminating in Section 5 that's more blue than black, making the blue links, uhm, oblivious :P