2048: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures.

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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 BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
Format TXT=45033 bytes
Authors J. Postel J. Klensin
Date November 1996
Keyphrases media types registration RFC transfer encoding

Obsoleted by

RFC4288: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures.
RFC4289: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures.

Updated by

RFC3023: XML Media Types.

Obsoletes

RFC1521: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies.
Obsoletes
- RFC1341: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies.
RFC1522: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text.
Obsoletes
- RFC1342: Representation of Non-ASCII Text in Internet Message Headers.
RFC1590: Media Type Registration Procedure.

References

RFC822: STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT
RFC934: Proposed standard for message encapsulation.
RFC1049: Content-type header field for Internet messages.
RFC1602: The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2. Internet Architecture Board, Internet Engineering Steering Group.
RFC1700: Assigned Numbers.
RFC2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies.
RFC2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types.
RFC2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples.

Referenced by

RFC2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies.
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.
RFC2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples.
RFC2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
RFC2083: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 1.0.
RFC2099: Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2000-2099.
RFC2122: VEMMI URL Specification.
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.
RFC2199: Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2100-2199.
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.
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.
RFC2327: SDP: Session Description Protocol.
RFC2361: WAVE and AVI Codec Registries.
RFC2421: Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2.
RFC2422: Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration.
RFC2423: VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration.
RFC2425: A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information.
RFC2426: vCard MIME Directory Profile.
RFC2434: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs.
RFC2445: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar).
RFC2447: iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP).
RFC2506: Media Feature Tag Registration Procedure.
RFC2552: Architecture for the Information Brokerage in the ACTS Project
RFC2557: MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML).
RFC2565: Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Encoding and Transport.
RFC2566: Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics.
RFC2633: S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification.
RFC2652: MIME Object Definitions for the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP).
RFC2801: Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0.
RFC2806: URLs for Telephone Calls.
RFC2822: Internet Message Format.
RFC2848: The PINT Service Protocol: Extensions to SIP and SDP for IP Access to Telephone Call Services.
RFC2910: Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport.
RFC2911: Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics.
RFC2935: Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) HTTP Supplement.
RFC2936: HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection.
RFC3009: Registration of parityfec MIME types.
RFC3023: XML Media Types.
RFC3028: Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language.
RFC3073: Portable Font Resource (PFR) - application/font-tdpfr MIME Sub-type Registration.
RFC3204: MIME media types for ISUP and QSIG Objects.
RFC3250: Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended (TIFF-FX) - image/tiff-fx MIME Sub-type Registration.
RFC3282: Content Language Headers.
RFC3299: Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3200-3299.
RFC3302: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration.
RFC3362: Real-time Facsimile (T.38) - image/t38 MIME Sub-type Registration.
RFC3405: Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Five: URI.ARPA Assignment Procedures.
RFC3551: RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control.
RFC3555: MIME Type Registration of RTP Payload Formats.
RFC3640: RTP Payload Format for Transport of MPEG-4 Elementary Streams.
RFC3712: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Schema for Printer Services.
RFC3778: The application/pdf Media Type.
RFC3801: Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (VPIMv2).
RFC3823: MIME Media Type for the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML).
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).
RFC3870: application/rdf+xml Media Type Registration.
RFC3910: The SPIRITS (Services in PSTN requesting Internet Services) Protocol.
RFC3926: FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport.
RFC4027: Domain Name System Media Types.
RFC4040: RTP Payload Format for a 64 kbit/s Transparent Call.
RFC4047: MIME Sub-type Registrations for Flexible Image Transport System (FITS).
RFC4145: TCP-Based Media Transport in the Session Description Protocol (SDP).
RFC4155: The application/mbox Media Type.
RFC4180: Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files.
RFC4240: Basic Network Media Services with
RFC4288: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures.
RFC4289: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures.
RFC4416: Goals for Internet Messaging to Support Diverse Service Environments.
RFC4501: Domain Name System Uniform Resource Identifiers.