On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:56:03AM -0400, The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 18 lines which said: > - 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text ' > <draft-ash-alt-formats-02.txt> as an Experimental RFC This draft is a bad answer to a very real and important problem. I agree with many of the nagtive remarks done on the IETF mailing list. But I want to add one: authorizing an *output* format without the corresponding *input* format (the "source") would be a very dangerous step away from open formats. Because it would mean a great difficulty, should we need to modify the RFC for a future version. Even a simple bug fix would be difficult. IMHO, IETF should always publish the "source" of its documents (the current RFC process is far from perfect in that respect). BTW, the draft completely fails to mention that there are text formats which are better than ordinary raw ASCII and able to be automatically translated to a nice rendering (typical candidates are LaTeX for equations and Graphviz for state machines). In short: no. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf