> http://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/RPC-Proposed-SoW-2013-final.doc > >I know that I should not this, but... I am a bit surprised >(disappointed) in seeing a proprietary format used here. I am not >saying that you should not use the Office suite to write it, but you >could convert it to PDF (better, PDF/A) before publishing it. > >Anyway, I use Linux, so I guess I will not be able to give my input about it. Hmmn. Is there some reason you are unable to install OpenOffice? It opens and displays the SoW including the redline just fine. I suppose she could have sent it out in OpenOffice's .odt format which is nominally more open, but then the people who use MS Word (I hear there are still a few of them) couldn't read it. There's no great way to send around a redlined document and I'd say that Word formats are currently the least bad. I presume you know that the more recent .docx file format is ISO/IEC 29500, so that should make everyone happy, modulo the detail that it's so complicated that in practice the older nominally un-open .doc interoperates a lot more reliably. R's, John