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Re: [hybi] US-ASCII vs. ASCII in Web Socket Protocol

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Tue, 02 February 2010 00:55 UTC

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On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, SM wrote:
> At 16:30 01-02-10, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > I used "ANSI_X3.4-1968" because that's the canonical name for US-ASCII,
> > and I used RFC1345 because that's the canonical reference. If you disagree
> > with these choices, please update the IANA registry.
> 
> Julian Reschke is correct; RFC 1345 should not be used as a normative 
> reference.  Please use the reference that he suggested 
> ([ANSI.X3-4.1986]).

Again, I'm just using what the IANA uses. If the IANA's reference is out 
of date, then please update the IANA registry. I've no intention of 
playing reference hot potato, where every 3 months the "best reference" 
changes and I have to update all the references.

RFC1345 works fine as a reference for the purposes of the Web Socket 
spec, anyway.

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