IETF dress code

Re:IETF dress code by spolsky on Friday February 05, 2010 @09:57PM (#1105637)

I love the way the IETF is still issuing reports formatted for ancient mainframe line printers, with hard-coded headers and footers and whatnot.

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Re:IETF dress code by rbanffy on Friday February 05, 2010 @10:06PM (#1105647)

Think of it as future-proofing their documents.

Paper has two advantages: it keeps carbon from becoming a greenhouse gas and quite probably outlasts all our other backup mediums.

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Re:IETF dress code by dmoney on Saturday February 06, 2010 @12:41AM (#1105847)

Except clay tablets and this: http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/

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Re:IETF dress code by gurtwo on Saturday February 06, 2010 @08:46AM (#1106205)

Ugh! Nasty crash on their website; http://staging.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-mic...

"You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page."

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Re:IETF dress code by joshwa on Saturday February 06, 2010 @11:40AM (#1106344)

seems they linked to their staging site (publicly accessible!!) by accident. Same page without staging subdomain:

http://www.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-micro-e...

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Re:IETF dress code by blogimus on Saturday February 06, 2010 @02:14AM (#1105951)

And unlike clay tablets, the rosetta disk even has some ISO compliance.

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Re:IETF dress code by dmoney on Monday February 08, 2010 @08:00PM (#1111199)

Which ISO is that?

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Re:IETF dress code by jacquesm on Saturday February 06, 2010 @05:04AM (#1106084)

The RFCS are all in this format, and since this provides some continuity across the whole set, I'm all for continuing in this way.

Think about what would happen if they made them all spiffy pdfs and then some guy 20 years from now would try to read them.

ASCII is forever, and having a page header on every page is relatively cheap, and helps to keep the context of which document you're looking at clear, the header is never more than 1/2 a page away.

It's quite hard to make a scrolling window with a steady header on a piece of paper ;)

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Re:IETF dress code by malkia on Friday February 05, 2010 @10:57PM (#1105704)

I preffer it that way. I can easily copy + paste it, put in a comment in the source code. It's way easier to exchange.

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Re:IETF dress code by _delirium on Friday February 05, 2010 @11:18PM (#1105733)

I like the ASCII text aspect for that reason, but does it really need the hard-coded headers and footers every 50 lines?

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