[ncc-services-wg] Pre-PDP discussion: "All RIPE documents should be plain text"

Hi,

>  The canonical and binding format of all documents is plain text in
> UTF-8 encoding.
>  If a document can not reasonably be stored as plain text,
> PDF/A-1a[1] will be used.
>  If any document exists in both plain text and PDF/A-1a, plain text is binding.
>  Any other form is considered non-binding as soon as a plain text or
> PDF/A-1a variant exist.
>  All legacy documents which are still valid or relevant to current
> policies will be transformed within a year of this proposal becoming
> policy.
> 
> 
> The reasoning behind this should be obvious: Ensure that all documents
> will be in the most simple-to-parse format now and forever.

For policy documents:

+1

Other RIPE documents may be graphics-heavy, although most probably won't be. It would be good to have a provision for non-policy documents that just can't be represented in plain text.

Alex