Subject: PDF usage

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:38:36 -0500

Barry Reinhold asks: 

> [David B: This looks better in a .pdf....are we allowed to use pdfs on
this
> reflector?]

Not exactly.  PDFs, drafts, etc. (basically anything
large) should *never* be sent to the reflector.  Put
them on a web site and send a URL to the reflector.
It's ok to use PDFs for diagrams related to drafts or
work underway in the WG, although any diagram that
is to appear in a standards track RFC has to be
reduced to ASCII graphics prior to Last Call on
the draft that contains it.

While it's ok to use PDFs for initial and interim 
versions of diagrams, I would strongly encourage
ASCII for the sort of header layout and format
issues that motivated Barry's original question.

--David

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