> From: "t.p." <[email protected]> > > The result was 32kbyte, ie the > formatting used by another SDO had increased the size 16-fold, a 16-fold > increase in network traffic, a 16-fold increase in the storage needed > for as long as the document was stored. > > Repeat this across the IETF's I-Ds and the ability to produce RFCs would > be substantially reduced.
Certainly larger formats are less desirable than smaller formats. But since RFC 1000 (1987), the size of disk drives has increased over 1000-fold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_drive_capacity_over_time.png), and communication speeds have also increased greatly. So size increases of a factor of 10 over periods of decades is unlikely to reduce our ability to work. Dale
