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Electronic Recordkeeping > Data Management > Standards > Data Interchange > Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies - (IETF RFC 2045) specifies the various headers used to describe the structure of MIME messages, Ned Freed and Nathaniel S. Borenstein, November 1996
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types - (IETF RFC 2046) defines the general structure of the MIME media typing system and defines an initial set of media types, Ned Freed and Nathaniel S. Borenstein, November 1996
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text - (IETF RFC 2047) describes extensions to RFC 822 to allow non-US-ASCII text data in Internet mail header fields, Keith Moore, November 1996
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures - (IETF RFC 2048) specifies various Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) registration procedures for media types, external body access types and content-transfer-encodings, Ned Freed, John Klensin and Jon Postel, November 1996
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples - (IETF RFC 2049) describes MIME conformance criteria as well as providing some illustrative examples of MIME message formats, acknowledgements and the bibliography, Ned Freed and Nathaniel S. Borenstein, November 1996

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