----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale R. Worley" <worley(_at_)ariadne(_dot_)com>
To: "t.p." <daedulus(_at_)btconnect(_dot_)com>
Cc: <rfc-interest(_at_)rfc-editor(_dot_)org>; <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 7:56 PM
From: "t.p." <daedulus(_at_)btconnect(_dot_)com>
The result was 32kbyte, ie the
formatting used by another SDO had increased the size 16-fold, a
16-fold
increase in network traffic, a 16-fold increase in the storage
needed
for as long as the document was stored.
Repeat this across the IETF's I-Ds and the ability to produce RFCs
would
be substantially reduced.
Certainly larger formats are less desirable than smaller formats. But
since RFC 1000 (1987), the size of disk drives has increased over
1000-fold
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_drive_capacity_over_time.png),
and communication speeds have also increased greatly. So size
increases of a factor of 10 over periods of decades is unlikely to
reduce our ability to work.
Agreed; I fear a 16-fold increase overnight if, for example, the archive
is converted to a format making inefficient use of a more sophisticated
markup..
Tom Petch
Dale
