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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 02 February 2010 07:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] US-ASCII vs. ASCII in Web Socket Protocol
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Ian Hickson wrote:
> 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.

RFC 1345 never was the "best reference"; actually, as far as I can tell, 
it never has been used as a normative reference for US-ASCII in *any* RFC.

BR, Julian

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