My my it must be springtime! Time for our annual food fight ritual of ASCII in RFC's. Actually I was thinking that the IETF should approach the International Digital Publishing Forum with the thought that they consider making the .epub format an IETF standard. .epub is getting considerable traction and I've personally found it to useful to convert some RFC's into .epub for storage on my Amazon kindle and soon to have iPad. You have to use desktop Stanza to convert again to the Kindle native format but this permits the document to be read and more important the fonts to be adjusted on the display for those of us with increasing issues with 10 point type. http://www.openebook.org/ I do get the arguments in favour of ASCII, though I think there are some pretty serious countervailing arguments (like, for instance, that we can't spell many contributors' names, to take an easy one). But the RFC format _is not_ plain ASCII. Just ask anyone whose draft has failed the increasingly stringent and lengthy list of IDNits tests due to bad pagination in their I-D. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf