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I didn't know RFCs are being written with xml2rfc directly anymore; I was under the impression most work was now happening through https://github.com/cabo/kramdown-rfc, which lets you hand-write markdown instead of hand-writing XML.

And then https://github.com/martinthomson/i-d-template, though a bit elaborate, does automate a lot of IETF stuff, including use of kramdown-rfc.

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A lot of people do write in markdown but when things finally get the RFC Production Center they work with the XML directly. This can actually cause problems if you want to produce a revised RFC (jargon: a "-bis") later, because the copy edit changes are in the XML and need to be backported to the markdown. The pro move is to backport the changes during the publication cycle as part of reviewing the copy-edit changes the RPC makes.

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