At 4:45 PM -0400 8/26/08, Russ Housley wrote:
It has already been done: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc97.pdf
The IETF has done lots of things that don't scale well to multiple tool sets.
PDF is an ISO standard,
So is OOXML.
and the RFC Editor has already set a
precedent by using this format when they are unable to locate an
electronic copy of a very old RFC.
This is a fine precedent for prehistoric RFCs. I'm pretty sure the
recent thread was for current RFCs.
This seems like a fine format to capture images, pictures, glyphs,
and other such things that are difficult to render in ASCII.
It sure it. It just turns out to be a terrible format for extracting
text as anything other than lines, and even then doesn't work
reliably with commonly-used tools
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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