Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
RFC 1344, “Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways”, is an Informational document published in June 1992 by N. Borenstein. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
While MIME was carefully designed so that it does not require any changes to Internet electronic message transport facilities, there are several ways in which message transport systems may want to take advantage of MIME. These opportunities are the subject of this memo. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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- RFC 1343 A User Agent Configuration Mechanism for Multimedia Mail Format Information
- RFC 1345 Character Mnemonics and Character Sets
- RFC 1342 Representation of Non-ASCII Text in Internet Message Headers
- RFC 1346 Resource Allocation, Control, and Accounting for the Use of Network Resources
- RFC 1341 MIME : Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies
- RFC 1347 TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses , A Simple Proposal for Internet Addressing and Routing
- RFC 1340 Assigned Numbers
- RFC 1348 DNS NSAP RRs