----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale R. Worley" <worley@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "t.p." <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <rfc-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 7:56 PM > > From: "t.p." <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The result was 32kbyte, ie the > > formatting used by another SDO had increased the size 16-fold, a 16-fold > > increase in network traffic, a 16-fold increase in the storage needed > > for as long as the document was stored. > > > > Repeat this across the IETF's I-Ds and the ability to produce RFCs would > > be substantially reduced. > > Certainly larger formats are less desirable than smaller formats. But > since RFC 1000 (1987), the size of disk drives has increased over > 1000-fold > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_drive_capacity_over_time.png), > and communication speeds have also increased greatly. So size > increases of a factor of 10 over periods of decades is unlikely to > reduce our ability to work. Agreed; I fear a 16-fold increase overnight if, for example, the archive is converted to a format making inefficient use of a more sophisticated markup.. Tom Petch > > Dale >
