At 4:45 PM -0400 8/26/08, Russ Housley wrote: >It has already been done: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc97.pdf The IETF has done lots of things that don't scale well to multiple tool sets. >PDF is an ISO standard, So is OOXML. >and the RFC Editor has already set a >precedent by using this format when they are unable to locate an >electronic copy of a very old RFC. This is a fine precedent for prehistoric RFCs. I'm pretty sure the recent thread was for current RFCs. >This seems like a fine format to capture images, pictures, glyphs, >and other such things that are difficult to render in ASCII. It sure it. It just turns out to be a terrible format for extracting text as anything other than lines, and even then doesn't work reliably with commonly-used tools --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf