RFC 1849: "Son of 1036": News Article Format and Transmission

By the early 1990s, it had become clear that RFC 1036, then the specification for the Interchange of USENET Messages, was badly in need of repair. This…

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Outgoing relationships (22 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Informative reference — RFC 822: STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES
Informative reference — RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
Informative reference — RFC 5322: Internet Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 1123: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support
Informative reference — RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Informative reference — RFC 2822: Internet Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples
Informative reference — RFC 1341: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies
Informative reference — RFC 977: Network News Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1036: Standard for interchange of USENET messages
Informative reference — RFC 1342: Representation of Non-ASCII Text in Internet Message Headers
Informative reference — RFC 3977: Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
Informative reference — RFC 1345: Character Mnemonics and Character Sets
Informative reference — RFC 1413: Identification Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 850: Standard for interchange of USENET messages
Informative reference — RFC 5536: Netnews Article Format
Informative reference — RFC 1896: The text/enriched MIME Content-type
Informative reference — RFC 5537: Netnews Architecture and Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 1456: Conventions for Encoding the Vietnamese Language VISCII: VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange VIQR: VIetnamese Quoted-Readable Specification
Informative reference — RFC 1544: The Content-MD5 Header Field

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 5536: Netnews Article Format
Obsoleted by — RFC 5537: Netnews Architecture and Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5538: The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes