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From: kasten@interlan.interlan.COM (Frank Kastenholz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  About RFCs in Postscript and Ascii
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Date: 5 Feb 90 15:25:38 GMT
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I think that this is an excellent solution to the Postscript vs Ascii
debate.

My only concern is that there may be useful information that is lost in going
from Postscript to ASCII. For example, if the TCP RFC were originally done in
Postscript and 'ported' to ASCII, the TCP header and state transition diagrams
could be lost. Will any effort be made to preserve these diagrams?

Also, given the possible information loss, which version of the RFC will be
the 'official' one?

As an aside - maybe diagrams could be made available via "FAX over TCP"?
I seem to recall that there was a discussion thread on the TCP/FAX topic
on the TCP-IP list within the past 2 or 3 months so there is some
interest in the general subject.

Cheers
Frank Kastenholz
Racal Interlan