Hi, Sam,
Thank you for taking the time to explain this stuff to us. It is very
helpful.
Just on your last point:
pictures: I guess someone might want to include a photo or other
picture in an IETF spec. I'd kind of like to know why. Be sure to
explain what the point of the photo is in the text.
In RFC 2397, "The "data" URL scheme", the following URL appears:
<IMG
SRC="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhMAAwAPAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAMAAw
AAAC8IyPqcvt3wCcDkiLc7C0qwyGHhSWpjQu5yqmCYsapyuvUUlvONmOZtfzgFz
ByTB10QgxOR0TqBQejhRNzOfkVJ+5YiUqrXF5Y5lKh/DeuNcP5yLWGsEbtLiOSp
a/TPg7JpJHxyendzWTBfX0cxOnKPjgBzi4diinWGdkF8kjdfnycQZXZeYGejmJl
ZeGl9i2icVqaNVailT6F5iJ90m6mvuTS4OK05M0vDk0Q4XUtwvKOzrcd3iq9uis
F81M1OIcR7lEewwcLp7tuNNkM3uNna3F2JQFo97Vriy/Xl4/f1cf5VWzXyym7PH
hhx4dbgYKAAA7"
ALT="Larry">
If you cut-and-paste this text into an HTML document and view it with a
browser that supports RFC 2397 (last I looked, Netscape and Mozilla did and
IE did not, but that's been a while), you see either a black-and-white GIF
of Larry Masinter that's about the size of your thumbnail, or "Larry" as the
ALT text.
That's not quite "putting a picture in an RFC", but it's close :-)
I'm also thinking that if an RFC is bad enough, having pictures of
authors/editors might make it easier to recognize the guilty parties and
organize a lynch mob, and that might do more to improve our quality than
anything since Kobe...
Have a great day,
Spencer
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