Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples
RFC 2049, “Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples”, is a Draft Standard document published in November 1996 by N. Freed, N. Borenstein. It obsoletes RFC 1521, RFC 1522, RFC 1590. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This set of documents, collectively called the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME, redefines the format of messages. This fifth and final document describes MIME conformance criteria as well as providing some illustrative examples of MIME message formats, acknowledgements, and the bibliography. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Draft Standard” means
A historical maturity level (retired in 2011) that sat between Proposed Standard and Internet Standard and required multiple interoperable implementations.
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- RFC 2048 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Part Four: Registration Procedures
- RFC 2050 Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines
- RFC 2051 Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC using SMIv2
- RFC 2047 MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
- RFC 2052 A DNS RR for specifying the location of services
- RFC 2046 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Part Two: Media Types
- RFC 2053 The AM Domain
- RFC 2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies