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Title : Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format
of Internet Message Bodies
Author(s) : N. Borenstein, N. Freed
Filename : draft-ietf-822ext-mime2-00.txt, .ps
Pages : 94
RFC 822 defines a message representation protocol which specifies
considerable detail about message headers, but which leaves the
message content, or message body, as flat ASCII text. This document
redefines the format of message bodies to allow multi-part textual and
non-textual message bodies to be represented and exchanged without
loss of information.
This is based on earlier work documented in RFC 934 and RFC 1049,
but extends and revises that work. Because RFC 822 said so
little about message bodies, this document is largely orthogonal
to (rather than a revision of) RFC 822.
In particular, this document is designed to provide facilities to
include multiple objects in a single message, to represent body
text in character sets other than US-ASCII, to represent formatted
multi-font text messages, to represent non-textual material such as
images and audio fragments, and generally to facilitate later
extensions defining new types of Internet mail for use by
cooperating mail agents.
This document does NOT extend Internet mail header fields to permit
anything other then US-ASCII text data.
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