morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (RL "Bob" Morgan) (06/28/91)
I would like to encourage everyone who is interested in the interaction between Mac-specific mail systems and Internet mail, and in the future of Internet mail in general, to look at the document: draft-ietf-822ext-messagebodies-00.ps [PostScript version] draft-ietf-822ext-messagebodies-00.txt [text version, much less useful] which is available from nnsc.nsf.net, in the directory "internet-drafts". This doc is a product of the Internet Mail Extensions working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the group that comes up with new ways to do things in the Internet. From the abstract: This document suggests extensions to the RFC 822 message representation protocol to allow multi-part textual and non-textual messages to be represented and exchanged without loss of information. This is based on earlier work documented in RFC 934 and RFC 1049, but extends and revises that work. In particular, it is designed to permit and standardize Internet mail mechanisms for representing text in character sets other than US-ASCII, for including formatted multi-font text messages, for including non- textual material such as images and audio fragments, and for generally extending Internet mail to include new types of objects that are tagged in such a way that cooperating mail agents can recognize their types. I'm hopeful that the recommendations in this document will greatly increase the functionality of Internet mail for most users. I'm also hopeful that it will greatly improve the ability of gateways between Internet and proprietary systems to preserve the richness and usefulness of the data that is sent back and forth. But then, I've always been a dreamer . . . 8^) - RL "Bob" Morgan Networking Systems Stanford -------