Different architectures have different conventions

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Different architectures have different conventions on bit order as well as byte order-whether the least significant bit of a byte, for example, is bit 0 or bit 7. [Pos81] defines (in its Appendix B) the standard network bit order. Why is bit order then not relevant to presentation formatting?

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