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To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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Subject: Re: small comments on abnf-03 
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:54:42 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


"Eric S. Raymond" writes:
> > 	I don't object to issuing such a version but there is no official
> > permission or support for it.  Perhaps it is time to get the RFC Editor to
> > permit html versions as an adjunct copy, along with the current permission
> > for postscript?
> 
> I would strongly support such a move.  We are rapidly approaching the
> day when everything is Web and all pre-HTML forms of on-line documentation
> will be rightly considered obsolete.

Can someone please tell me what the "standard" for HTML is? It appears
that "standard" HTML is a figment of the imagination, subject to the
whims of Microsoft and Netscape and not even commonly agreed upon.

.pm