Mohsen BANAN wrote: > Of course many now visit the ietf.org site primarily > for the restaurant guide. http://www.google.com/custom?q=cache:73jsCm44tooJ:www.ietf.org/meetings/Restaurant_Guide_Map.ppt+restaurant&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 > Is big business now so entrenched at the ietf that use > of Microsoft's PowerPoint is being encouraged at the > ietf.org website? PPT slide shows of the tutorials are converted to HTML, e.g. ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-online-proceedings/05mar/proceedings/slides/wgchair-0/sld1.htm http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/05aug/slides/newcomer-0/sld1.htm That's perfectly readable from my POV, unlike some forms of PDF ("cannot extract embedded font" is now an ISO standard). > True to form, like an experienced cult leader, you have > again trivialized a real problem. http://www.ietf.org/instructions/meeting_materials.html | .TXT Plain text (Unix / Mac / Dos) | .DOC MS Word Document (v 95 - latest version) | .PDF Adobe Portable Document Format (Acrobat 3 - latest version) | .PPT MS PowerPoint (v 95 - latest version) | | For incorporation into the proceedings, presentation slides | submitted in ppt and doc WILL BE converted to html and pdf, | respectively. I can only hope that they pick HTML for all slides that might interest me later. > Publication of anything in Microsoft PowerPoint format > at the ietf.org website is utterly inappropriate and wrong. With PPT I'm sure that I can't read it, with PDF I never know without "experiment", that can be rather expensive with V.90. > a vendor-specific proprietary format http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ms-powerpoint Bye, Frank _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf