On 2012-02-01 17:23, Richard Salz wrote:
> My wording wasn't clear enough.
>
> At the time, we all thought "netascii for headers" was the right thing to
> do. So much so that the question of codesets in headers *never came up.*
> The entire IETF had this mindset, it was a truism, fundamental concept,
> statement of fact, fundamental postulate, etc. It was not "what about
> charset encodings? Never mind"
>
> I use the pronoun "we" on purpose;
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec16.html#sec16
> ...
Which is a good opportunity to remind people that IETF specifications
are influenced by those people who care enough to show up and help.
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/wiki>
Now is the time.
