2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies.
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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
Status DRAFT STANDARD
Format TXT=72932 bytes
Authors
N. Borenstein
Date November 1996
Keyphrases RFC MIME encoding header
Updated by
Obsoletes
References
Referenced by
- RFC2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types.
- RFC2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text.
- RFC2048: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures.
- RFC2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples.
- RFC2060: Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1.
- RFC2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
- RFC2070: Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language.
- RFC2077: The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. S. Nelson, C. Parks, Mitra.
- RFC2083: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 1.0.
- RFC2099: Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2000-2099.
- RFC2110: MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML).
- RFC2130: The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996.
- RFC2152: UTF-7 A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode.
- RFC2156: MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME.
- RFC2158: X.400 Image Body Parts.
- RFC2159: A MIME Body Part for
- RFC2161: A MIME Body Part for
- RFC2165: Service Location Protocol.
- RFC2183: Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field.
- RFC2184: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations.
- RFC2192: IMAP URL Scheme.
- RFC2199: Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2100-2199.
- RFC2229: A Dictionary Server Protocol.
- RFC2231: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations.
- RFC2237: Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages.
- RFC2278: IANA Charset Registration Procedures.
- RFC2279: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.
- RFC2298: An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications.
- RFC2299: Request for Comments Summary.
- RFC2302: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration.
- RFC2306: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile.
- RFC2311: S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification.
- RFC2376: XML Media Types.
- RFC2378: The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture.
- RFC2387: The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type.
- RFC2392: Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators.
- RFC2397: The "data" URL scheme.
- RFC2421: Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2.
- RFC2425: A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information.
- RFC2426: vCard MIME Directory Profile.
- RFC2442: The Batch SMTP Media Type.
- RFC2445: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar).
- RFC2447: iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP).
- RFC2480: Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts.
- RFC2483: URI Resolution Services Necessary for URN Resolution.
- RFC2535: Domain Name System Security Extensions.
- RFC2552: Architecture for the Information Brokerage in the ACTS Project
- RFC2557: MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML).
- RFC2566: Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics.
- RFC2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
- RFC2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication.
- RFC2633: S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification.
- RFC2646: The Text/Plain Format Parameter.
- RFC2653: CIP Transport Protocols.
- RFC2660: The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol.
- RFC2693: SPKI Certificate Theory.
- RFC2703: Protocol-independent Content Negotiation Framework.
- RFC2779: Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements.
- RFC2781: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646.
- RFC2801: Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0.
- RFC2802: Digital Signatures for the v1.0 Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP).
- RFC2821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
- RFC2822: Internet Message Format.
- RFC2825: A Tangled Web: Issues of I18N, Domain Names, and the Other Internet protocols. IAB, L. Daigle, ed..
- RFC2828: Internet Security Glossary.
- RFC2848: The PINT Service Protocol: Extensions to SIP and SDP for IP Access to Telephone Call Services.
- RFC2849: The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification.
- RFC2901: Guide to Administrative Procedures of the Internet Infrastructure.
- RFC2911: Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics.
- RFC2912: Indicating Media Features for MIME Content.
- RFC2913: MIME Content Types in Media Feature Expressions.
- RFC2936: HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection.
- RFC2938: Identifying Composite Media Features.
- RFC2967: TISDAG - Technical Infrastructure for Swedish Directory Access Gateways.
- RFC2978: IANA Charset Registration Procedures.
- RFC3023: XML Media Types.
- RFC3028: Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language.
- RFC3030: SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages.
- RFC3047: RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1.
- RFC3053: IPv6 Tunnel Broker.
- RFC3073: Portable Font Resource (PFR) - application/font-tdpfr MIME Sub-type Registration.
- RFC3075: XML-Signature Syntax and Processing.
- RFC3080: The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol Core.
- RFC3117: On the Design of Application Protocols.
- RFC3126: Electronic Signature Formats for long term electronic signatures.
- RFC3204: MIME media types for ISUP and QSIG Objects.
- RFC3229: Delta encoding in
- RFC3230: Instance Digests in
- RFC3250: Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended (TIFF-FX) - image/tiff-fx MIME Sub-type Registration.
- RFC3252: Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport.
- RFC3275: (Extensible Markup Language) XML-Signature Syntax and Processing.
- RFC3282: Content Language Headers.
- RFC3283: Guide to Internet Calendaring.
- RFC3288: Using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP).
- RFC3297: Content Negotiation for Messaging Services based on Email.
- RFC3298: Service in the Public Switched Telephone Network/Intelligent Network (PSTN/IN) Requesting InTernet Service (SPIRITS) Protocol Requirements.
- RFC3302: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration.
- RFC3310: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Digest Authentication Using Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA).
- RFC3335: MIME-based Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the Internet.
- RFC3340: The Application Exchange Core.
- RFC3391: The MIME Application/Vnd.pwg-multiplexed Content-Type.
- RFC3435: Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Version 1.0.
- RFC3459: Critical Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Parameter.
- RFC3464: An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications.
- RFC3470: Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols.
- RFC3501: INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1.
- RFC3502: Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - MULTIAPPEND Extension.
- RFC3516: IMAP4 Binary Content Extension.
- RFC3536: Terminology Used in Internationalization in the
- RFC3538: Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) Supplement for the v1.0 Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP).
- RFC3548: The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings.
- RFC3555: MIME Type Registration of RTP Payload Formats.
- RFC3599: Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3500-3599.
- RFC3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.
- RFC3656: The Mailbox Update (MUPDATE) Distributed Mailbox Database Protocol.
- RFC3676: The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters.
- RFC3720: Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI).
- RFC3745: MIME Type Registrations for JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444).
- RFC3773: High-Level Requirements for Internet Voice Mail.
- RFC3795: Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Application Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents.
- RFC3798: Message Disposition Notification.
- RFC3801: Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (VPIMv2).
- RFC3834: Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail.
- RFC3839: MIME Type Registrations for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Multimedia files.
- RFC3851: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification.
- RFC3862: Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM): Message Format.
- RFC3863: Presence Information Data Format (PIDF).
- RFC3864: Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields.
- RFC3885: SMTP Service Extension for Message Tracking.
- RFC3886: An Extensible Message Format for Message Tracking Responses.
- RFC3887: Message Tracking Query Protocol.
- RFC3892: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Referred-By Mechanism.
- RFC3910: The SPIRITS (Services in PSTN requesting Internet Services) Protocol.
- RFC3922: Mapping the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) to Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM).
- RFC3930: The Protocol versus Document Points of View in Computer Protocols.
- RFC3977: Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).
- RFC3987: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs).
- RFC4021: Registration of Mail and MIME Header Fields.
- RFC4024: Voice Messaging Client Behaviour.
- RFC4040: RTP Payload Format for a 64 kbit/s Transparent Call.
- RFC4047: MIME Sub-type Registrations for Flexible Image Transport System (FITS).
- RFC4073: Protecting Multiple Contents with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
- RFC4102: Registration of the text/red MIME Sub-Type.
- RFC4112: Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML) Version 2 Specification.
- RFC4130: MIME-Based Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange Using HTTP, Applicability Statement 2 (AS2).
- RFC4155: The application/mbox Media Type.
- RFC4169: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Digest Authentication Using Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) Version-2.
- RFC4185: National and Local Characters for DNS Top Level Domain (TLD) Names.
- RFC4227: Using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP).
- RFC4239: Internet Voice Messaging (IVM).
- RFC4240: Basic Network Media Services with
- RFC4249: Implementer-Friendly Specification of Message and MIME-Part Header Fields and Field Components.
- RFC4263: Media Subtype Registration for Media Type text/troff.
- RFC4281: The Codecs Parameter for "Bucket" Media Types.
- RFC4288: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures.
- RFC4289: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures.
- RFC4324: Calendar Access Protocol (CAP).
- RFC4367: What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names.
- RFC4393: MIME Type Registrations for 3GPP2 Multimedia Files.
- RFC4416: Goals for Internet Messaging to Support Diverse Service Environments.
- RFC4462: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) Authentication and Key Exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol.
- RFC4468: Message Submission BURL Extension.
- RFC4469: Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) CATENATE Extension.
- RFC4483: A Mechanism for Content Indirection in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Messages.
- RFC4539: Media Type Registration for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Material Exchange Format (MXF).
- RFC4648: The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings.
- RFC4662: A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Notification Extension for Resource Lists.
- RFC4695: RTP Payload Format for
- RFC4707: Netnews Administration System (NAS).
- RFC4716: The Secure Shell (SSH) Public Key File Format.