Internet Message Extensions (822ext)

Charter Status: Concluded October, 1993 Chair(s): Greg Vaudreuil Description of Working Group: This working group was chartered to extend the RFC 822 message format to facilitate multi-media mail and alternate character sets. RFCs 1341 and RFC 1342 document the Multi-Media Extensions for Internet Mail. The working group will work to progress MIME to Draft Standard status and provide a forum for the review of standards track content-type specifications and the review of character set extensions to MIME.

Request for Comments:

  • RFC1341 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies (Proposed Standard)
  • RFC1342 Representation of Non-ASCII Text in Internet Message Headers (Proposed Standard)
  • RFC1437 The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium (Informational)
  • RFC1468 Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (Informational)
  • RFC1521 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies (Draft Standard)
  • RFC1522 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text (Draft Standard)
  • RFC1523 The text/enriched MIME Content-type (Informational)
  • RFC1544 The Content-MD5 Header Field (Proposed Standard)
  • RFC1563 The text/enriched MIME Content-type (Informational)
  • RFC1864 The Content-MD5 Header Field (Draft Standard)
  • RFC2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies (Draft Standard)
  • RFC2046 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types (Draft Standard)
  • RFC2047 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text (Draft Standard)
  • RFC2048 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures (BCP)
  • RFC2049 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples (Draft Standard)