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