The following documents specify message contents handling, most of which is covered by the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). There are also several non-standard message content RFCs that are supported by the SIMS product, which are listed separately in Table A–4.
Table A–4 Message Content and Structure
Standard |
Status |
Description |
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RFC 1847 |
Proposed Standard |
J. Galvin, S. Murphy, S. Crocker, N. Freed, Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted, October 1995. |
RFC 2017 |
Proposed Standard |
Ned Freed (Innosoft), Keith Moore (University of Tennessee), Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type, October 1996. |
RFC 2045 |
Draft Standard |
Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies, November 1996. |
RFC 2046 |
Draft Standard |
Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), MIME Part Two: Media Types, November 1996. |
RFC 2047 |
Draft Standard |
Keith Moore (University of Tennessee), MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text, November 1996. |
RFC 2048 |
Policy |
Ned Freed (Innosoft), John Klensin (MCI), Jon Postel (USC/Information Sciences Institute), MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures, November 1996. |
RFC 2049 |
Draft Standard |
Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples, November 1996. |
RFC 2231 |
Proposed Standard |
N. Freed, K. Moore, MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations, November 1997. |
RFC 2298 |
Proposed Standard |
R. Fajman, An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications, March 1998. |