Re: Writing Internet Drafts on a Macintosh

[Bill Manning]

% 
% > > Also, why isn't HTML an accepted format for Internet Drafts, pretty 
% > > much everyone on the planet should be able to read an HTML file (even 
% > > using Lynx on a terminal)?
% > 
% > and that goes for pdf too, given that the irs uses it too :)
% 
% I'd like to see us accept HTML as an alternate format for I-Ds,
% and perhaps eventually RFCs.  One problem is that HTML is not
% in reality as portable as we would like. 


        re HTML/PDF:   cut&paste?
                       text search?
                       ease of conversion to other formats?

        or... why even bother with these incremental technologies?

        XML has also been offered up.  I'm not persuaded that any
        of these three are superiour to ASCII.  And there is nothing
        preventing one from taking the authoritative archive and
        doing the conversion to foramt'o'the day. A number of folks
        have done so.  But the authoritative base is still and should
        remain (for now) ASCII.

--bill