RFC 2046 · November 1996 · N. Freed, N. Borenstein

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types

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RFC 1590 — Media Type Registration Procedure
RFC 1522 — MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
RFC 1521 — MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies

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