> Does anyone know why RFCs are still formatted as if they were written on a typewriter in the seventies?
They are formatted in plain text with fixed page sizes because that's what they've always done, it works fine, and there's no compelling reason to change.
> also, how do people write this?
The thing about keeping the same format for a few decades rather than changing it with each shift in popular fashion is that there is plenty of supporting tooling.
They are formatted in plain text with fixed page sizes because that's what they've always done, it works fine, and there's no compelling reason to change.
> also, how do people write this?
The thing about keeping the same format for a few decades rather than changing it with each shift in popular fashion is that there is plenty of supporting tooling.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/tools/
https://tools.ietf.org/