John,
JM> Although it may seem silly to
JM> some (and some of you may not want to hear from them anyway), the
JM> IETF's formatting rules do present a (relatively small) hurdle to
JM> public policy advocates and other outsiders.
well, this is an unexpected benefit of our formatting rules...
the IETF is a technical body, not a place for public policy debates.
and to the extent you want to pursue the matter seriously, there are
at least two critical items to remembers:
1. The format requirements are easy to satisfy, with support for MS
Word and XML-based documents readily available;
2. Technical standards bodies typically have some sort of format
standard. Within my limited experience, the IETF requirements are
easily the easiest.
d/
JM> I personally think that there is value in allowing those less
d/
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