Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!UDEL.EDU!Mills From: Mills@UDEL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?) Message-ID: <8909302326.aa13204@huey.udel.edu> Date: 1 Oct 89 03:26:13 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 John (and others), I have a serious dillema. My students and I work with several text, image and statistics systems, all of which produce PostScript. My advice has been to use the best technology currently available to maximize research productivity and exposure in the many scientific and engineering archives available to us, including RFCs. Unless a document is in fact pure text, this usually means PostScript. This is how we submit articles for publication in conference proceedings, archive journals and even our dear own Computer Communication Review. For the reasons mentioned in my recent message, we are not prepared to render every document in ASCII, regardless of content, and are not prepared to maintain documents in more than one form. Thus, the real question is whether PostScript submissions will be allowed in the RFC archives or whether they will be published elsewhere and not appear in the RFC archives at all. I am a stout supporter of the RFC process and would hope that our community can be viewed as a leader in technology of electric publishing, archiving and distribution. Just as CCR is viewed as a pioneer in print publishing by encouraging article submission in electric form (currently PostScript), I would hope our community can show that it is possible to save the production cost and even a few trees by remote access of the archives, while preserving the full capabilities of print media. There are lots of things that PostScript does not provide and that may become available in future, including ODA. When the standards have stabilized, when software is available and when such capability has spread even to the sites that have no PostScript printers now, I promise to become a zealot. Dave