RFC 2978: IANA Charset Registration Procedures

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) and various other Internet protocols are capable of using many different charsets. This in turn means that the…

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Outgoing relationships (11 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 2278: IANA Charset Registration Procedures
Informative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Informative reference — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Informative reference — RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
Informative reference — RFC 1700: Assigned Numbers
Informative reference — RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Informative reference — RFC 1590: Media Type Registration Procedure
Informative reference — RFC 2130: The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996
Informative reference — RFC 1759: Printer MIB
Informative reference — RFC 2184: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
Informative reference — RFC 2468: I REMEMBER IANA

Incoming relationships (16 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 6838: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8866: SDP: Session Description Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5987: Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field Parameters
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7303: XML Media Types
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9051: Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - Version 4rev2
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6237: IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8010: Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8187: Indicating Character Encoding and Language for HTTP Header Field Parameters
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7377: IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7231: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6365: Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4289: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3805: Printer MIB v2
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9580: OpenPGP