I hereby formally add my voice to the list of people who think that
draft-ash-alt-formats should not be published in its present form as the
basis for an RFC 3933 experiment.
I would change this opinion if:
- The description of the evaluation of the experiment was extended to
include:
- Ability of people with a variety of different PDF readers to
display the document (including Frank's OS/2 viewer!)
- Ability of people with disabilities (blind, visually handicapped)
to understand the document
- Ability of people to excerpt from the document
- The security section of the document were extended to describe the
security issues surrounding PDF, including executable embedding, and
possible countermeasures
- The document admitted itself as one of the three documents to be
processed under its own exception
Other people have raised other points that probably should be addressed.
These are mine.
I think the idea of running an experiment, and, if necesary, sacrificing
the long-time retrievability of the two RFCs on the altar of the great
god Progress, is a good idea.
But I think the document is not ready for publication in this version.
Harald
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