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        RFC 2046:

        Title:      Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
                    (MIME) Part Two:
                    Media Types
        Author:     N. Freed & N. Borenstein
        Date:       November 1996
        Mailbox:    ned@innosoft.com, nsb@nsb.fv.com
        Pages:      44
        Characters: 105,854
        Obsoletes:  1521, 1522, 1590

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2046.txt


STD 11, RFC 822 defines a message representation protocol specifying
considerable detail about US-ASCII message headers, but which 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
textual message bodies in character sets other than US-ASCII, an
extensible set of different formats for non-textual message bodies,
multi-part message bodies, and textual header information in character
sets other than US-ASCII.  This second document defines the general
structure of the MIME media typing system and defines an initial set
of media types.

This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.

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