ASCII is not just an RFC. It is an Internet Standard, but only recently.

When people tell you that ASCII is not an Internet Standard but an RFC. They are wrong. They used to be right though. Until 2015-01-12, when IETF declared the RFC 20 to be an Internet Standard: status-change-rfc20-ascii-format-to-standard-00.

So after more than 45 years (like many good things, the ASCII RFC is from 1969), it is not just an American Standard but an Internet Standard (:

Thanks Lauren Weinstein for sharing and Kristian Köhntopp for pointing to the reclassification.

–jeroen

via: ASCII – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.