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
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