On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > +1 > > Since nobody was using teleprinters 500 years ago the introduction of > them here as a point of difference is ridiculous. > > And the idea that HTML is any less stable than the hacks people have > developed to make non-ASCII characters work in ASCII is totally > absurd. We can reasonably expect that within the next ten, twenty > years, handwriting recognition will render such hacks obsolete and the > memory of them will be as obscure as Morse code is today. I'd love to see you trapped in a basement after an earthquake with only a stick trying to remember how to tap S-O-S. Hard to believe but Morse is still in use and required for certain classes of radio operators. Cheers Jorge _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf