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From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:45:15 +0100 To: ietf-types@alvestrand.no Message-ID: <fk8puv$5f8$1@ger.gmane.org> Cc: www-archive@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 7 November 2012 14:18:13 GMT

Julian Reschke wrote:

> there's also RFC2616

Yes, that's an ugly legacy exception...  

> <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i20>

...maybe 2616bis can drop this oddity in favour of a simple
"unknown text is ASCII" rule.  HTTP oddities shouldn't affect
MIME registrations, there's no string "2616" in BCP13.

 Frank