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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:08:53 EDT
From:         Roger Fajman <RAF@NIHCU.BITNET>
Subject:      ID ACTION:draft-ietf-822ext-messagebodies-06.txt, .ps

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A Revised Internet Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories. This draft is a work item of the
Internet Message Extensions Working Group of the IETF.

       Title     : MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions):
                   Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format
                   of Internet Message Bodies
       Author(s) : Nathaniel Borenstein, Ned Freed
       Filename  : draft-ietf-822ext-messagebodies-06.txt, .ps
       Pages     : 80

RFC822 defines a message representation protocol which specifies
considerable detail about message headers, but which leaves the
message content, or message body, as flat ASCII text.  This document
redefines the format of message bodies to allow multi-part textual and
non-textual  message bodies to be represented and exchanged without
loss of  information.  This is based on earlier work documented in RFC
934 and RFC 1049, but extends and revises that work. Because RFC 822 said so
little about message bodies,  this document is largely orthogonal to
(rather than a revision of) RFC 822.

In particular, this document is designed to provide facilities to
include multiple objects in a single message, to represent body text
in character  sets other than US-ASCII, to represent formatted
multi-font text messages, to represent non-textual material such as
images and audio fragments, and  generally to facilitate later
extensions defining new types of Internet mail for use by cooperating
mail agents.

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