RE: IPS: FCIP & this list

[Robert Snively <rsnively@Brocade.COM>]

Dave,

At the open-mic session at the last IETF meeting, I specifically 
raised the issue of pdf as a documentation capability.  If I
interpreted the reply correctly, the primary document must
be text only.  However, versions of the documents in pdf format
were explicitly allowed in order to bring graphics and
better text formatting to the task of making the document
clearer.

>From that, I would have expected that, as long as you provided
paired txt and pdf documents, that they should both be
available on the IETF web-sites and registered through the
I-D servers.  In the case of personal drafts, it would be
even possible that only the pdf existed, since they would be
notes and supplemental texts to the txt formal drafts.

I would like to push the IETF to step up to their stated
flexibility in this area, if they have not already done so.

Bob

> That's a judgment call.  Actually sending the PDFs to the list
> or the I-D servers is a no-no, but it would be ok to put them
> on a web site and post URLs to the list, as long as new text
> versions of the draft do go to the I-D servers at reasonable
> intervals.  It would also be ok to keep the interim PDF versions
> private among the authors until the next major revision of
> the draft is ready for the I-D servers.  There's
> no requirement to make all working notes visible.