RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types

This second document defines the general structure of the MIME media typing system and defines an initial set of media types. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Outgoing relationships (3 related RFCs)

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

Incoming relationships (105 related RFCs)

Showing 50 of 105 related RFCs.

Updated by — RFC 3798: Message Disposition Notification
Updated by — RFC 5147: URI Fragment Identifiers for the text/plain Media Type
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6657: Update to MIME regarding "charset" Parameter Handling in Textual Media Types
Updated by — RFC 2646: The Text/Plain Format Parameter
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8098: Message Disposition Notification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6838: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3851: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7519: JSON Web Token (JWT)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5751: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Message Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7515: JSON Web Signature (JWS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5598: Internet Mail Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7517: JSON Web Key (JWK)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6350: vCard Format Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4975: The Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5545: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7285: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8225: PASSporT: Personal Assertion Token
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3801: Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (VPIMv2)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3462: The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3862: Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM): Message Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7303: XML Media Types
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4289: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6591: Authentication Failure Reporting Using the Abuse Reporting Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3459: Critical Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Parameter
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9068: JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3676: The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4155: The application/mbox Media Type
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4823: FTP Transport for Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the Internet
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5621: Message Body Handling in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6522: The Multipart/Report Media Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7808: Time Zone Data Distribution Service
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8823: Extensions to Automatic Certificate Management Environment for End-User S/MIME Certificates
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9553: JSContact: A JSON Representation of Contact Data
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4239: Internet Voice Messaging (IVM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7035: Relative Location Representation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7111: URI Fragment Identifiers for the text/csv Media Type
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7578: Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8295: EST (Enrollment over Secure Transport) Extensions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5616: Streaming Internet Messaging Attachments
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6917: Media Resource Brokering
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8255: Multiple Language Content Type
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8970: IMAP4 Extension: Message Preview Generation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9399: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Logotypes in X.509 Certificates
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9639: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9649: WebP Image Format
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5322: Internet Message Format