your over a decade too late. at one point, the default was ASCII text, then
there was a reason to
support PDF as canonical (the NTP suite). Once the camel got his nose in the
tent, a variety of forms
now flourish. There is a strong sense of loss when ASCII was abandoned. And
the IETF productivity
has gone through a noticeable decline in technical contribution and a dramatic
rise in administrative overload.
/bill
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.
On 17December2013Tuesday, at 9:40, t.p. <daedulus(_at_)btconnect(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I would like to see a constraint on the formatting of the minutes of WGs
that meet at an IETF meeting (similar to the way in which we constrain
the formatting of RFC).
I just tried to read two such and got
"This type of file could harm your computer"
the format being Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX.
I am sure that the secretariat will have stripped anything evil from the
minutes before posting them on the website and doubtless the formatting
enables a richer user experience, but even so, such formatting does
diminish their usability to the world at large, IMO, and so would be
better avoided.
Tom Petch