[Gnso-newgtld-wg] Adobe, and .PDF files

[Satish Babu]

I have never encountered such a problem in general use, but have seen a
personal account in use when PDFs are used to distribute copy-restricted
content (in my case, it was a paid magazine subscription that required
personal credentials). Needless to say, I stopped accessing it after the
first time.

According to https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/about-adobe-pdf.html,
"...PDF
is now an open standard maintained by the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO)", and nothing prevents us from using alternative
readers/renderers to render PDF files on any platform (as is usually the
case in Linux).







satish



On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:17 AM, Alberto Soto <alberto at soto.net.ar> wrote:

> I have also seen and downloaded many .pdf. I never had to register to see
> or download. But if there is any part done that is necessary, it is
> convenient to know and "claim".
>
> Regards
>
> Alberto
>
>
>
> *De:* Gnso-newgtld-wg <gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces at icann.org> *En nombre de *Alan
> Greenberg
> *Enviado el:* jueves, 30 de agosto de 2018 09:56 p.m.
> *Para:* lists at christopherwilkinson.eu Wilkinson <
> lists at christopherwilkinson.eu>; gnso-newgtld-wg at icann.org; Steve Chan <
> steve.chan at icann.org>
> *CC:* cw at christopherwilkinson.eu
> *Asunto:* Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Adobe, and .PDF files
>
>
>
> Christopher, I open loads on ICANN-sent PDFs on several devices and have
> never encountered anything remotely akin to what you describe. It would be
> useful if you can give an example of a specific file and where it was
> fetched from (ie its URL) or what e-mail it was attached to so we can see
> if the problem is unique to you or more widespread.
>
> Alan
>
> At 30/08/2018 04:39 PM, lists at christopherwilkinson.eu Wilkinson wrote:
>
>
> Dear  Steve:
>
> I find that, recently, Adobe has been requiring us to create a kind of
> personal 'membership' of Adobe before allowing us to open a .PDF file. The
> potential ramifications are far reaching.
>
> If we all continue to use .PDF files to communicate substantial documents
> (as I have also done so until recently)  then in due course the whole of
> the ICANN community will have to become *nolens volens *'members' of
> Adobe.
>
> Is that OK? I am worried about it. Has ICANN anything to say to Adobe
> about this?
>
> Just a thought
>
> CW
>
> El 30 de agosto de 2018 a las 18:27 Steve Chan <steve.chan at icann.org>
> escribió:
>
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