[ripe-list] question on ripe document formatting standards

Hi all,

I wanted to do some research into the ripe document series, but I could not find a repository which contains all ripe documents in one format. For instance the ripe FTP repo [0] contains some documents in plaintext (txt), and some in postscript (ps) and PDF (pdf). 

Initially I thought this was because the postscript and PDF files contained diagrams and/or tables and thus were harder to render in text (explicitly _not_ trying to start an ASCII art flame war here), but then there are documents such as ripe-74 which is only available in Postscript/PDF, but contains no diagrams. Later, roughly starting from 2006 onward and getting quite prevalent in 2014, there is a trend to almost solely post ripe documents as PDF files.

Is there a document that outlines the formatting standard? Or is there another repository which contains all documents in plaintext?

Thanks in advance,

Niels

PS I have done some casual searching about this topic on the mailinglists and the website, but if I have overlooked a thread/doc on this topic, feel free to just point me there!

[0] ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/
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Niels ten Oever
Researcher and PhD Candidate
Datactive Research Group
University of Amsterdam

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