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