Running code, actual interest to deploy, and an incremental deployment
model would probably take this matter further than the annual religious
argument :-)
Those who feel the pain should build/select tools and demonstrate that
(a) they can produce high-quality PDF/A, (b) that it provides additional
value, and (c) that you can start publishing drafts and RFCs that use
such a format without causing a problem for those who still read ASCII
or use rfcdiff.
No one prevents you from publishing .pdf in addition to .txt as a draft.
Just do it. For RFC 5534 we also got a permission to publish the .pdf
version alongside .txt so it the process does not prevent you from doing
it. (But I run out of time to fine-tune the RFC version of the PDF, so
for now at least there is only the text version.)
In short, just go do it.
Jari
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