[rusk]

Apologies for the misattribution.

The situation in practice is that when people want a “standard” way to do CSV, there is in fact a standard they can use, that does cover most sensible things you’ll want to do with CSV, and addresses the most common corner cases (eg delimeter in field) in a fairly sensible way.

You are free yet to make whatever proprietary extensions or otherwise, at the risk of losing compatibility just as you are with any other standard.