- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:48:32 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 03.03.2010 18:16, Edward O'Connor wrote: >> Hi Julian, >> >>> 2. Negative Effects >>> >>> None. >> >> I think you've missed at least one negative effect: as far as I can >> tell, ANSI.X3-4.1986 isn't freely available and linkable online. At >> least, I haven't been able to find a copy that the spec could link >> to. > > - RFC 1345 does not define ASCII, and it's not really helpful in > explaining what ASCII is. If you're looking for a linkable resource > that actually is helpful, how about <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII > >? > > - That being said, I think a reference to ISO/IEC 646 would be > acceptable as well; this one is re-published by ECMA as ECMA-006, > which is available online (<http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-006.htm > >) Ian, would a reference to ISO/IEC 646 aka ECMA-006 be acceptable to you? I am trying to determine if we need a call for consensus or a call for counter-proposals as the next step. Side note: it seems to me that changing the reference would be, like, 10 minutes of work, so if this one is acceptable from a technical perspective, please let's consider going with it instead of dragging this issue out further. Regards, Maciej
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