RE: Image attachments to ASCII RFCs (was: Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats))

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu>]

On Friday, June 16, 2006 02:31:51 PM -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" 
<pbaker at verisign.com> wrote:

> > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch at muada.com]
>
> > When I was 16 years old, I wrote a text editor in BASIC that
> > would probably have allowed me to edit RFCs.
>
> I wrote a text editor in Basic for the ZxSpectrum that was published
> commercially when I was 15.
>
> I guess I could use it to edit RFCs as well if I could find a ZxSpectrum
> that still worked to read the program off the cassette tape.
>
>
> My computing needs have grown somewhat since then.


... and, you've completely missed the point.

Currently, RFC's are published and distributed in a form which is so 
straightforward that a child could write software to view or produce it.

Show me a PDF viewer written by a 16-year-old in BASIC, or whatever it is 
that bored kids write software in these days.

-- Jeff

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