WeBMartians wrote:
Curiosity: Why can't the document reference ISO-646US? ...
As far as I can tell, it could. When I checked the RFC collection, references to the ANSI spec seemed to be used more frequently.
Here's an excerpt from RFC 5198 which might be relevant:
[ASCII] American National Standards Institute (formerly
United States of America Standards Institute), "USA
Code for Information Interchange", ANSI X3.4-1968,
1968.
ANSI X3.4-1968 has been replaced by newer versions
with slight modifications, but the 1968 version
remains definitive for the Internet. ISO 646
International Reverence Version (IRV)
[ISO.646.1991] is usually considered equivalent to
ASCII.
[ISO.646.1991] International Organization for Standardization,
"Information technology - ISO 7-bit coded character
set for information interchange", ISO Standard 646,
1991.
Best regards, Julian
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