RE: [ga] Re: Proposal: ICANN should cease acceptance of PDF, DOC and otherattachments from public comments

["Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe Open Office can read MS Word files...

Debbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer
> Sent: 25 January 2010 08:12
> To: George Kirikos
> Cc: GNSO GA Mailing List
> Subject: [ga] Re: Proposal: ICANN should cease acceptance of
> PDF, DOC and otherattachments from public comments
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:03:17AM -0800,  George Kirikos
> <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote  a message of 21 lines which said:
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> > Given the numerous vulnerabilities in attachment formats, including
> > PDF:
>
> There is no vulnerability in PDF, only in *one* specific
> proprietary PDF reader. If someones finds a security weakness
> in Windows Notepad, will you ban ASCII?
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> > I propose that ICANN cease to accept all public comments
> that are in
> > any format other than ASCII or Unicode text.
>
> It would be more interesting to have a discussion on the
> acceptable formats, specially proprietary vs. "open" (which
> is not easy to define). Comments in MS-Word should not be
> accepted, because it requires paying Microsoft to view them.
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