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Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-11 11:05:47
Besides your eyes, (only one in some cases), you don't need any extra
junkware to be able to read the RFCs, even better, without eyes you
still can do it since text to speech works very nicely with ASCII.

There could be some compatibility problems with some ancient blueware
still using EBCDIC.

Keep the ASCII

Cheers
Jorge

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
Periodically, there are flame wars on the IETF mailing list that the
IETF should / shouldn't adopt the latest fad is document formats,
postscript, PDF, whatever, since, after all, "everyone" uses them,
claims they are too complicated and keep changing resulting in
version/font/... problems are overblow, etc. As a data point, I would
refer people to
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/031010-hackers-love-to-exploit-pdf.html

Thanks,
Donald
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