>There should be an immutable requirement that any alternative format >MUST NOT increase the size by more than a factor of two compared to >ASCII text. So you're saying you're unalterably opposed to the RFC editor providing PDF, HTML, epub, mobipocket, and every other format that people actually use on modern computers, as well as anything that includes reasonably legible images? If that's not what you mean, what DO you mean? We all seem to agree that we want to continue to provide the traditional line printer image format, but on today's Internet where 20Mb/sec cable modems aren't particularly fast, it's silly to demand that documents be sized for floppy disks. R's, John