RFC 2912 on Indicating Media Features for MIME Content

RFC Editor <rfc-ed@ISI.EDU> Tue, 12 September 2000 18:49 UTC

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Subject: RFC 2912 on Indicating Media Features for MIME Content
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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.


        RFC 2912

        Title:	    Indicating Media Features for MIME Content
        Author(s):  G. Klyne
        Status:     Standards Track
	Date:       September 2000
        Mailbox:    GK@ACM.ORG
        Pages:      11
        Characters: 20618
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-conneg-content-features-03.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2912.txt


In "A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets", an expression
format is presented for describing media feature capabilities using
simple media feature tags.
 
This memo defines a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
'Content-features:' header that can be used to annotate a MIME
message part using this expression format, and indicates some ways it
might be used.

This document is a product of the Content Negotiation Working Group of
the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
"Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the
standardization state and status of this protocol.  Distribution
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Joyce K. Reynolds and Sandy Ginoza
USC/Information Sciences Institute

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