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It's annoying that IETF so behind the times that they still don't use HTML for their RFCs. In the last 20 years they've published 3 specs for hypertext transform protocol, but are still unsure about actually using hypertext yet.

They're probably very concerned about readability on a VT-100 by users who don't have enough memory to run Lynx.

In the meantime the spec is unreadable on a mobile phone screen (their "HTML" version of the RFC is still the same fixed-width text stuffed in a `<pre>` tag).




There's probably a XML version, which mean you can use the standard XSLT sheet to get HTML output that's not confined to 75 characters on a line.

But completely agree... they still haven't agreed on UTF-8 either, and still require ASCII.




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