[Infrastructure] Baseline Requirements - Markdown Output

[Ben Wilson]

Thanks,  Ryan.

 

I think we ought to change what we can (presentation issues) and re-generate the PDF.  

 

Also, I like the way that the automated generation method (not the one I used) adds page numbers and doesn’t insert a page break before the section headings for the tables.

 

 

From: Ryan Sleevi <sleevi at google.com> 
Sent: Monday, November 5, 2018 9:27 AM
To: Ben Wilson <ben.wilson at digicert.com>
Cc: infrastructure at cabforum.org
Subject: Re: [Infrastructure] Baseline Requirements - Markdown Output

 

And here are the versions automatically being produced as part of our infrastructure:

 

https://cabforum-travis-artifacts.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/builds/master/BR.html

https://cabforum-travis-artifacts.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/builds/master/BR.pdf

 

I would presume that, in context, we have a couple requirements from the past discussions about format:

 

1) A format that folks can edit without the use of/requirement of certain platforms and/or third-party software

2) A format that is stable between versions (i.e. opening in a newer version of some software won't change the formatting)

3) A format that produces stable output (e.g. two different people can produce the same output and ensure there aren't visual differences/artifacts)

 

It's unclear, from the context of requirements, whether there is a fourth requirement

4) Assuming all those things above are equal, a format that minimizes the number of steps to produce output should be preferred over other formats, on the basis that more steps to produce output creates more opportunities for human error or requires more manual intervention

 

 

Separately, both versions of the documents (what Ben provided and what's being produced) 'suffer' from the same formatting issues at present. One is the use of footnotes re: "registry-controlled" (which appear at the end of the document, rather than the page printed on) and the other is the use of block formatting in the profile.

 

With respect to the ballots themselves, the footnote is controlled by Ballot 96 ( https://cabforum.org/2013/02/20/ballot-96-wildcard-certificates-and-new-gtlds/ ) and doesn't require any 'special' treatment - i.e. without requiring a new ballot, the presentation of that section 'could' be adjusted. With respect to the block formatting (see 5.4.1, 7.1.2.2, 7.1.2.3), that's fairly easy to fix and presentational, without changing any of the text.

 

I'm specifically avoiding the suggestions of making structural or balloted changes to those documents in this WG, given the charter.

 

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 10:00 AM Ben Wilson <ben.wilson at digicert.com <mailto:ben.wilson at digicert.com> > wrote:

FWIW - Here is what it looks like when I export BR.md to PDF using Typora.

 

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