Re: ASCII, Postscript or PDF in IETF drafts

[Karl Auerbach <karl at CaveBear.com>]

> At present, RFCs can be supplied in either ASCII only, or in both 
> ASCII and Postscript format....

My own preference is to follow direction pointed out by Marshall Rose in 
"Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML" RFC2629.

It provides semantic labelling of the parts of the document, thus making
it better material for more next-generation search engines.

Plus it can be readily converted to either raw ascii or HTML and thus has
a degree of output device independence.

And it's still in ascii (actually UTF-8) that one can read by eye if
necessary, digitally sign (once folks settle on a standard method),
and "grep".

Yes, drawings and graphics would still be an nuisance.

		--karl--