[Bloat] Letter to CACM?

[Simon Leinen]

>> If you/we want to submit an Internet-Draft for discussion, the cut-off
>> dates are 7 March for initial contributions (-00 drafts), and 14 March
>> for revisions. (http://www.ietf.org/meeting/cutoff-dates-2011.html).

> Thanks for the dates; I dunno if I can have something written by
> then, much less to ID formatting standards; it's been a while since
> I was in the ID submission business, though the lord knows I've
> submitted a lot of them for RFC 2068 and 2616.  I have no idea what
> tools are best for that these days.

The most popular tool seems to be xml2rfc (http://xml.resource.org/).
Emacs and nxml-mode work nicely with this, but any other XML editor
should be fine.  On http://tools.ietf.org/ there's a lot of useful
information about how to format and submit Internet-Drafts.
-- 
Simon.