> Pardon my reverse-parochialism, but I think the need to be able to > spell editors' and contributors' names correctly, and give examples of > messages containing payloads which are not expressible in 7-bit > characters, dwarfs in importance the need to decorate RFCs with > pictures. -Tim But then again the spell-check and name-checking would assumably be in the ASCII portion of the text (leaving aside L8N author names for the moment) and all that wuld be needed is for the RFC editor to run the checks on the text portion of the document before making the final copy. Making again the point made hundreds of times before, the figures are not there for decoration. I personally had to abandon writing drafts on 2 occasions because I could not capture equations or formal diagrams. One became a patent application instead of becoming IPR-free (interestingly, patent offices the world over allow modern formats, and archive granted patents going back to their beginnings) and the second became an ITU-T Recommendation (where PDFs are the normative format). Y(J)S _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf