[rfc-i] Byte order marks

[Paul Hoffman]

At 11:15 PM -0500 11/4/08, Tony Hansen wrote:
>Just like we can have a .pdf alternative to the .txt file, could we also
>have a .utf8 alternative to the .txt file?

The purpose of this document was to make UTF-8 the first-class encoding where needed, not the second-class encoding. The RFC series has a long history of no one knowing that there are PDF versions even when they are needed.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium