STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES
RFC 822, “STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES”, is an Internet Standard document published in August 1982 by D. Crocker. It obsoletes RFC 733. It has since been updated by RFC 1123, RFC 1138, RFC 1148, RFC 1327, RFC 2156. It has been obsoleted by RFC 2822 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document revises the specifications in RFC 733, in order to serve the needs of the larger and more complex ARPA Internet. Some of RFC 733's features failed to gain adequate acceptance. In order to simplify the standard and the software that follows it, these features have been removed. A different addressing scheme is used, to handle the case of internetwork mail; and the concept of re-transmission has been introduced. Obsoletes RFC 733, NIC 41952.
What “Internet Standard” means
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- RFC 821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- RFC 823 DARPA Internet gateway
- RFC 820 Assigned numbers
- RFC 824 CRONUS Virtual Local Network
- RFC 819 The Domain Naming Convention for Internet User Applications
- RFC 825 Request for comments on Requests For Comments
- RFC 818 Remote User Telnet service
- RFC 826 An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware