Henning Schulzrinne wrote: > I personally would welcome any pragmatic approach that maximizes the > long-term usefulness of our output. I hope we have general agreement > that a structured document format is better long-term than any > unstructured, presentation-oriented format, be it ASCII, Word or PDF. > The latter all lose information that then has to be manually added later > or guessed, with some probability of error, by tools.
The nice thing about ASCII is that you don't need Word or a PostScript viewer -- or for that matter a graphical O/S to read them. And it's stable. VERY stable. Show me something that is vendor neutral for five years AND A REAL REASON TO GO TO IT, and I'm mostly there. On the other hand, here's a reason to NOT go away from ASCII. As someone mentioned to me today, ASCII art forces people to think about conciseness and complexity. If you can't reasonably depict it in ASCII art perhaps you have a problem with one or the other. Eliot _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf