Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 08:33 pm

Sun 2002-11-10 17:03, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> You can only extend the standard or obsolete it.

 > Ok, Txy is obsolete.  T:xy is the new standard.

 > Better?

Now try getting that past the FTSC.  Oh wait, you can't.  Damn.

I don't see any need to change from Txy to T:xy really.  Whoever gets elected 
to the FTSC may have a different idea though.

 > The reason I mention it to you is because it's easier to have the flag 
 > translations built into the node translation that it would be to modify 
 > it later after native HRN software is already using Txy.

No need.  The idea is to get HRN used as the primary nodelist format used for 
distribution by the ZCs.  Then people without a HRN compiler can use software 
(like rnlcvt but more complete) to convert to St Louis.  Once that's done, the 
St Louis flags after the "Operating [Dialup] [FTS-1] [at] [phonenumber]" should 
be copied verbatim from the HRN if you're converting to St Louis format.  But 
people shouldn't be _regularly_ converting the existing St Louis nodelist to 
HRN format
unless they have a dire need to (because the nodelist will normally be 
distributed in HRN format by the ZCs).  That's the plan, anyway!

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