> But one of the important criteria for an acceptable alternate > form, one which came up in the earlier discussion on this list, > is that the format be searchable. In case it wasn't clear, my quite informal suggestion was that one might attach a few GIF illusttrations to an ASCII document, sort of like a paper book that has a few color plates glued in the back. I agree it would be nuts to put text into GIF. > More generally and to reinforce a point that I think Bob Braden > made, I believe there was general consensus on this IETF list > when the earlier discussion occurred that PDF, if it was to be > used, be narrowly profiled so as to permit only those variations > that appeared to be stable and meet various other criteria, > notably ease of searching and extraction by text copying > operations. It seems to me that this draft, by omitting > specifics about versions and features of PDF to be permitted > and, if it isn't obvious, how the submission or editing process > automatically verifies that those rules were followed, is not > responsive to that consensus. Arguably, on that basis, it > should never have been Last Called. Entirely agree. Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf