First, the important thing: this is a great step, congratulations to the RFC Editor. On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:50:08PM +0100, Denis Ovsienko <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 18 lines which said: > The presence of BOM in a UTF-8 file exactly follows Section 2 of RFC > 7994 (Requirements for Plain-Text RFCs). But section 2 of RFC 5198 says the opposite and, IMHO, it is right.