No, your claim was a canard because it is a test that your preferred document format cannot meet. I do not need to have the evidence of 500 years of experience of using HTML to be able to demonstrate that HTML will be readable in 1000 years time. The difficulty of deciphering HTML is remarkably lower than the difficulty of deciphering Linear B (3500 years old), Egyptian hieroglyphs (last used 1600 years ago) or Mayan hieroglyphs (last used 400 years ago). Many people have successfully decoded HTML without any access to the standard whatsoever. The idea that we shoudld worry about lack of ability to decipher it is totally absurd. The value of information encoded in HTML is simply too great for that ever to happen as long as civilization lasts. I really don't think it is worth while arguing that the RFC series is of such utmost importance that we need worry about ability to maintain it any longer. On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Masataka Ohta <mohta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > >> Since nobody was using teleprinters 500 years ago the introduction of >> them here as a point of difference is ridiculous. > > I can't see your point. > > Are you begging our pardon and withdraw your stupid statement of > "being able to interpret them in 1000 years time"? > > Or? > > Masataka Ohta > > -- -- New Website: http://hallambaker.com/ View Quantum of Stupid podcasts, Tuesday and Thursday each week, http://quantumofstupid.com/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf