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Title : MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three:
Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Author(s) : K. Moore
Filename : draft-ietf-822ext-mime-hdrs-00.txt
Pages : 14
Date : 06/03/1996
STD 11, RFC 822, defines a message representation protocol specifying
considerable detail about US-ASCII message headers, and leaves the message
content, or message body, as flat US-ASCII text. This set of documents,
collectively called the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME,
redefines the format of messages to allow for
(1) textual message bodies in character sets other than US-ASCII,
(2) an extensible set of different formats for non-textual message bodies,
(3) multi-part message bodies, and
(4) textual header information in character sets other than US-ASCII.
These documents are based on earlier work documented in RFC 934, STD 11,
and RFC 1049, but extends and revises them. Because RFC 822 said so little
about message bodies, these documents are largely orthogonal to (rather
than a revision of) RFC 822.
This particular document is the third document in the series. It describes
extensions to RFC 822 to allow non-US-ASCII text data in Internet mail
header fields.
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