> Consider the problem of answering the question "Is the RFC on my screen > or printer the same as your document? Was either version edited by > someone or something?" > Then no matter what DTD verifiers the RFC Editor runs, we will have > people saying "RFC 98765432 says blah de blah right here on this > sheet of paper" because they printed it with a User Friendly XML > printer that fixes spelling errors and deletes bits that infringe on > Microsoft's business plans and the RIAA's intellectual property. Vernon, if you honestly believe this to be true, then the only format you could possibly advocate is printed hardcopy locked up in a vault. Even ASCII documents are subject to bit rot, be it on media, during transmission, while in memory, etc. --lyndon