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

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>]

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