On 11/16/2011 01:45 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
Just saying, but if we want to ensure that presentations are readable 50 years from now, and do not embed some kind of malicious code, we might stick to ASCII text, right?
Yes, clearly. It's hard to know what to say about the suggestion that PowerPoint is an appropriate archival format, other than maybe it's time for folks to learn more about archiving. To be honest it's my impression that it's just people trying to find some reason - any reason - to justify their preferred tools. The notion that current PowerPoint formats being the ones most likely to be interpretable in 2061, of the formats now available, really doesn't hold up under serious scrutiny. But hey, now we know that at least the proponents of the archival view are going to have crud-free slides, in the interest of parsability at unknown future times. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf