The IETF has thrived for many years using a document format which is easy to produce, view, and edit on virtually any platform, and easy to distribute via virtually any means. I'm not saying there is no room for change, but any new format needs to do reasonably well with respect to both of these properties -- only having one is _not_ sufficient. [YJS] That is the whole problem. ASCII is NOT easy to produce, it is close to impossible to produce with others, and it is mind-breakingly frustrating to include even the simplest figure. Until the tool team and others came up with an on-line PDF converter it was also extremely difficult and time-consuming to print. Alternatively, it can be created using nroff, (nroff: noun an obscure outdated mark-up language) or by XML which was never meant to be a typesetting language and requires installing a medley of tools that don't work well together and also does not support even simple graphics. Neither of these has any support for cooperative work. You must be using some new meaning for the word "easy" that I haven't come across yet. Y(J)S _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf