The latest and hopefully final proposed standard version of MIME is
now available from the Internet Drafts. This version reflects
specific changes requested by the IESG, and also includes several
editorial clarifications identified during the last call period. In
the absense of major objections, this is the version that will be send
back to the IESG this week.
Please send any SPECIFIC objection to the changes made in the document
in response to either the comments from the IESG, or the handfull of
last minute editorial changes to the list by Thursday Morning (EST).
I appologise for the sort duration of this comment period, however,
the changes have been stable for some time, and it is my hope to get
the IESG to consider this document during their next meeting.
Greg Vaudreuil
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 17:03:12 -0500
From: Internet-Drafts(_at_)nri(_dot_)reston(_dot_)va(_dot_)us
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Subject: ID ACTION:draft-ietf-822ext-messagebodies-05.txt, .ps
A Revised Internet Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories. This draft is a work item of the
Internet Message Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
Title : MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions):
Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format
of Internet Message Bodies
Author(s) : Nathaniel Borenstein, Ned Freed
Filename : draft-ietf-822ext-messagebodies-05.txt, .ps
Pages : 80
RFC822 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.
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