MIME
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... Recent Internet protocols have been carefully designed to be easily
extensible in certain areas. In particular, MIME [RFC2045] is an
open-ended framework ...
... Registration of media types and charsets for use in MIME are
specified in separate documents [RFC4288] [RFC2278 ...
... message/external-body media type, whereby a
MIME entity can act as pointer to the actual body data in lieu of
including the data directly in the entity ...
...
Transfer encodings are transformations applied to MIME media types
after conversion to the media type's canonical form ...
... used to apply general-purpose non-lossy compression algorithms to
MIME entities.
o Transport encodings ...
... Transport encodings can be defined as a means of representing
existing encoding formats in a MIME context.
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... Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 2045draft, November 1996. ...
... Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046draft, November 1996. ...
... Freed, N., Klensin, J., and J. Postel, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) ...
... o Registration of charsets for use in MIME is specified in [RFC2278]
and is no longer addressed by this document.
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