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Re: [pim] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pim-group-rp-mapping-01.txt

Stig Venaas <stig@venaas.com> Mon, 29 June 2009 21:59 UTC

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Just a quick comment

Andy Kessler (kessler) wrote:
[...]
> 
> John> I would like to see a decision tree that would more clearly 
> explain the choices.

Sounds like a good idea

> Text-only is too easy to mis-read.
> 
>  
> 
> Andy>Your idea of a flow chart to show the algorithm is a good one. 
> Hmmm... in 2009 can we include
> 
>   a gif or pdf with our draft ? I suppose we’ll do it in ascii. We’ll 
> add that to the next draft.
> 

What's wrong with ascii? ;) In 2009 you can indeed to pdf (this was done
for PIM and BSR RFCs too, haven't you seen the beautiful FSMs there?).
In the past there have also been RFCs in PostScript, but seems pdf is
the desired non-ascii format these days.

Stig

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