your over a decade too late. at one point, the default was ASCII text, then there was a reason to support PDF as canonical (the NTP suite). Once the camel got his nose in the tent, a variety of forms now flourish. There is a strong sense of loss when ASCII was abandoned. And the IETF productivity has gone through a noticeable decline in technical contribution and a dramatic rise in administrative overload. /bill Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. On 17December2013Tuesday, at 9:40, t.p. <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to see a constraint on the formatting of the minutes of WGs > that meet at an IETF meeting (similar to the way in which we constrain > the formatting of RFC). > > I just tried to read two such and got > "This type of file could harm your computer" > the format being Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX. > > I am sure that the secretariat will have stripped anything evil from the > minutes before posting them on the website and doubtless the formatting > enables a richer user experience, but even so, such formatting does > diminish their usability to the world at large, IMO, and so would be > better avoided. > > Tom Petch > >