On 11/15/2011 01:13 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
Incidentally, I am not a supporter of free-for-all file format support, but solely because of posterity support: the ietf archives will be of interest to historians one day, and there is no better way to make it difficult to analyse things than by accepting a multitude of file formats, some of which change rapidly or have bizarrely different and incompatible implementations (e.g. odf).
Librarian, here. As a fan of the unusual argument I love the suggestion that future researchers will have an easier time with undocumented, proprietary formats, and therefore in the present day we should all be required to run behemothware so that we can be able to look at slides loaded with the sort of Features that Tufte warned us about. Odd to see an IETF participant arguing against interoperability, BTW. Anyway, I remain unconvinced. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf