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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-mime2-01.txt, .ps
Pages : 93
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.
It is recognized that such extensions are necessary,
and they are the subject of a companion document.
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