Plenary decision?

[Hallam-Baker, Phillip]

> As I said, I can't remember a time when the people
> present who went up to mike to defend ASCII numbered less than at
> least 3 times number of people who wanted to use some propietary
> (i.e., MS Word) or non-editable (i.e., Postscript) formats.

This is a straw man. HTML is a completely open format.

If you use XHTML and define the schema appropriately you can 
easily verify that no proprietary extensions have been used.

Alternatively there are plenty of tools to verify against a DTD.


		Phill