Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?)
Message-ID: <1989Sep29.185310.1606@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5446@asylum.SF.CA.US>  <932@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 18:53:10 GMT

In article <932@manta.NOSC.MIL> budden@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Rex A. Buddenberg) writes:
>At the risk of sounding too rational, why don't you employ
>the CALS standards for what they were settled on for?
>(SGML for text, IGES for CAD, CCITT Group 4 for images).

Because only a very small percentage of the intended audience has software
that can understand them, and the purpose of the exercise is supposed to
be communication, not standards conformance for its own sake.
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