The IETF has thrived for many years using a document format which is
easy to produce, view, and edit on virtually any platform, and easy to
distribute via virtually any means. I'm not saying there is no room for
change, but any new format needs to do reasonably well with respect to
both of these properties -- only having one is _not_ sufficient.
[YJS] That is the whole problem. ASCII is NOT easy to produce,
it is close to impossible to produce with others,
and it is mind-breakingly frustrating to include even the
simplest figure. Until the tool team and others came up
with an on-line PDF converter it was also extremely
difficult and time-consuming to print.
Alternatively, it can be created using nroff,
(nroff: noun an obscure outdated mark-up language)
or by XML which was never meant to be a typesetting
language and requires installing a medley of tools
that don't work well together and also does not support
even simple graphics. Neither of these has any support
for cooperative work.
You must be using some new meaning for the word "easy"
that I haven't come across yet.
Y(J)S
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