Each PPM image consists of the following:
A row of an image is horizontal. A column is vertical. The pixels in the image are square and contiguous.
ITU-R Recommendation BT.709 is a renaming of the former CCIR Recommendation 709. When CCIR was absorbed into its parent organization, the ITU, ca. 2000, the standard was renamed. This document once referred to the standard as CIE Rec. 709, but it isn't clear now that CIE ever sponsored such a standard.
Note that another popular color space is the newer sRGB. A common variation on PPM is to subsitute this color space for the one specified.