EIA/TIA standard regarding EIA-232 flow control?
I could have sworn that a few years ago I saw an EIA/TIA standard that
was intended to address the fact that RTS/CTS flow control is in
widespread usage, but that in this common usage RTS does not mean
request to send, but rather that the DTE is ready to accept data from
the DCE. I seem to recall that the standard renamed the signal when
used in this way, to something like Ready For Data (RFD?).

Anyhow, I can't find anything like that right now. It might have been
part of a standard with l ..
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