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Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-14 19:17:18
The key question is whether there exists a format which is likely to be
sufficiently stable that we won't have to revisit this decision in
another 35 years. All the proposed formats - including PDF, XML, etc. -
are moving targets at this time.

That's why I suggested GIF. Like ASCII, GIF has its shortcomings, but its definition hasn't changed in 16 years and I've never seen GIF software that doesn't interoperate.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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