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+Network Working Group Y. Abel, Ed.
+Request for Comments: 5335 TWNIC
+Updates: 2045, 2822 September 2008
+Category: Experimental
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+ Internationalized Email Headers
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+Status of This Memo
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+ This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
+ community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
+ Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
+ Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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+Abstract
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+ Full internationalization of electronic mail requires not only the
+ capabilities to transmit non-ASCII content, to encode selected
+ information in specific header fields, and to use non-ASCII
+ characters in envelope addresses. It also requires being able to
+ express those addresses and the information based on them in mail
+ header fields. This document specifies an experimental variant of
+ Internet mail that permits the use of Unicode encoded in UTF-8,
+ rather than ASCII, as the base form for Internet email header field.
+ This form is permitted in transmission only if authorized by an SMTP
+ extension, as specified in an associated specification. This
+ specification Updates section 6.4 of RFC 2045 to conform with the
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+Table of Contents
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+ 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
+ 1.1. Role of This Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
+ 1.2. Relation to Other Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
+ 2. Background and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
+ 3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
+ 4. Changes on Message Header Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
+ 4.1. UTF-8 Syntax and Normalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
+ 4.2. Changes on MIME Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
+ 4.3. Syntax Extensions to RFC 2822 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
+ 4.4. Change on addr-spec Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
+ 4.5. Trace Field Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
+ 4.6. message/global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
+ 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
+ 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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+1. Introduction
+
+1.1. Role of This Specification
+
+ Full internationalization of electronic mail requires several
+ capabilities:
+
+ o The capability to transmit non-ASCII content, provided for as part
+ of the basic MIME specification [RFC2045], [RFC2046].
+
+ o The capability to use international characters in envelope
+ addresses, discussed in [RFC4952] and specified in [RFC5336].
+
+ o The capability to express those addresses, and information related
+ to them and based on them, in mail header fields, defined in this
+ document.
+
+ This document specifies an experimental variant of Internet mail that
+ permits the use of Unicode encoded in UTF-8 [RFC3629], rather than
+ ASCII, as the base form for Internet email header fields. This form
+ is permitted in transmission, if authorized by the SMTP extension
+ specified in [RFC5336] or by other transport mechanisms capable of
+ processing it.
+
+1.2. Relation to Other Standards
+
+ This document updates Section 6.4 of RFC 2045. It removes the
+ blanket ban on applying a content-transfer-encoding to all subtypes
+ of message/, and instead specifies that a composite subtype MAY
+ specify whether or not a content-transfer-encoding can be used for
+ that subtype, with "cannot be used" as the default.
+
+ This document also updates [RFC2822] and MIME ([RFC2045]), and the
+ fact that an Experimental specification updates a Standards-Track
+ specification means that people who participate in the experiment
+ have to consider those standards updated.
+
+ Allowing use of a content-transfer-encoding on subtypes of messages
+ is not limited to transmissions that are authorized by the SMTP
+ extension specified in [RFC5336]. Message/global permits use of a
+ content-transfer-encoding.
+
+2. Background and History
+
+ Mailbox names often represent the names of human users. Many of
+ these users throughout the world have names that are not normally
+ expressed with just the ASCII repertoire of characters, and would
+ like to use more or less their real names in their mailbox names.
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+ These users are also likely to use non-ASCII text in their common
+ names and subjects of email messages, both received and sent. This
+ protocol specifies UTF-8 as the encoding to represent email header
+ field bodies.
+
+ The traditional format of email messages [RFC2822] allows only ASCII
+ characters in the header fields of messages. This prevents users
+ from having email addresses that contain non-ASCII characters. It
+ further forces non-ASCII text in common names, comments, and in free
+ text (such as in the Subject: field) to be encoded (as required by
+ MIME format [RFC2047]). This specification describes a change to the
+ email message format that is related to the SMTP message transport
+ change described in the associated document [RFC4952] and [RFC5336],
+ and that allows non-ASCII characters in most email header fields.
+ These changes affect SMTP clients, SMTP servers, mail user agents
+ (MUAs), list expanders, gateways to other media, and all other
+ processes that parse or handle email messages.
+
+ As specified in [RFC5336], an SMTP protocol extension "UTF8SMTP" is
+ used to prevent the transmission of messages with UTF-8 header fields
+ to systems that cannot handle such messages.
+
+ Use of this SMTP extension helps prevent the introduction of such
+ messages into message stores that might misinterpret, improperly
+ display, or mangle such messages. It should be noted that using an
+ ESMTP extension does not prevent transferring email messages with
+ UTF-8 header fields to other systems that use the email format for
+ messages and that may not be upgraded, such as unextended POP and
+ IMAP servers. Changes to these protocols to handle UTF-8 header
+ fields are addressed in [EAI-POP] and [IMAP-UTF8] .
+
+ The objective for this protocol is to allow UTF-8 in email header
+ fields. Issues such as how to handle messages containing UTF-8
+ header fields that have to be delivered to systems that have not been
+ upgraded to support this capability are discussed in [DOWNGRADE].
+
+3. Terminology
+
+ A plain ASCII string is also a valid UTF-8 string; see [RFC3629]. In
+ this document, ordinary ASCII characters are UTF-8 characters if they
+ are in headers which contain <utf8-xtra-char>s.
+
+ Unless otherwise noted, all terms used here are defined in [RFC2821],
+ [RFC2822], [RFC4952], or [RFC5336].
+
+ The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
+ "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
+ document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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+4. Changes on Message Header Fields
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+ SMTP clients can send header fields in UTF-8 format, if the UTF8SMTP
+ extension is advertised by the SMTP server or is permitted by other
+ transport mechanisms.
+
+ This protocol does NOT change the [RFC2822] rules for defining header
+ field names. The bodies of header fields are allowed to contain
+ UTF-8 characters, but the header field names themselves must contain
+ only ASCII characters.
+
+ To permit UTF-8 characters in field values, the header definition in
+ [RFC2822] must be extended to support the new format. The following
+ ABNF is defined to substitute those definitions in [RFC2822].
+
+ The syntax rules not covered in this section remain as defined in
+ [RFC2822].
+
+4.1. UTF-8 Syntax and Normalization
+
+ UTF-8 characters can be defined in terms of octets using the
+ following ABNF [RFC5234], taken from [RFC3629]:
+
+ UTF8-xtra-char = UTF8-2 / UTF8-3 / UTF8-4
+
+ UTF8-2 = %xC2-DF UTF8-tail
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+ UTF8-3 = %xE0 %xA0-BF UTF8-tail /
+ %xE1-EC 2(UTF8-tail) /
+ %xED %x80-9F UTF8-tail /
+ %xEE-EF 2(UTF8-tail)
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+ UTF8-4 = %xF0 %x90-BF 2( UTF8-tail ) /
+ %xF1-F3 3( UTF8-tail ) /
+ %xF4 %x80-8F 2( UTF8-tail )
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+ UTF8-tail = %x80-BF
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+ These are normatively defined in [RFC3629], but kept in this document
+ for reasons of convenience.
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+ See [RFC5198] for a discussion of normalization; the use of
+ normalization form NFC is RECOMMENDED.
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+4.2. Changes on MIME Headers
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+ This specification updates Section 6.4 of [RFC2045]. [RFC2045]
+ prohibits applying a content-transfer-encoding to all subtypes of
+ message/. This specification relaxes the rule -- it allows newly
+ defined MIME types to permit content-transfer-encoding, and it allows
+ content-transfer-encoding for message/global (see Section 4.6).
+
+ Background: Normally, transfer of message/global will be done in
+ 8-bit-clean channels, and body parts will have "identity" encodings,
+ that is, no decoding is necessary. In the case where a message
+ containing a message/global is downgraded from 8-bit to 7-bit as
+ described in [RFC1652], an encoding may be applied to the message; if
+ the message travels multiple times between a 7-bit environment and an
+ environment implementing UTF8SMTP, multiple levels of encoding may
+ occur. This is expected to be rarely seen in practice, and the
+ potential complexity of other ways of dealing with the issue are
+ thought to be larger than the complexity of allowing nested encodings
+ where necessary.
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+4.3. Syntax Extensions to RFC 2822
+
+ The following rules are intended to extend the corresponding rules in
+ [RFC2822] in order to allow UTF-8 characters.
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+ FWS = <see [RFC2822], folding white space>
+
+ CFWS = <see [RFC2822], folding white space>
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+ ctext =/ UTF8-xtra-char
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+ utext =/ UTF8-xtra-char
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+ comment = "(" *([FWS] utf8-ccontent) [FWS] ")"
+
+ word = utf8-atom / utf8-quoted-string
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+ This means that all the [RFC2822] constructs that build upon these
+ will permit UTF-8 characters, including comments and quoted strings.
+ We do not change the syntax of <atext> in order to allow UTF8
+ characters in <addr-spec>. This would also allow UTF-8 characters in
+ <message-id>, which is not allowed due to the limitation described in
+ Section 4.5. Instead, <utf8-atext> is added to meet this
+ requirement.
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+ utf8-text = %d1-9 / ; all UTF-8 characters except
+ %d11-12 / ; US-ASCII NUL, CR, and LF
+ %d14-127 /
+ UTF8-xtra-char
+
+ utf8-quoted-pair = ("\" utf8-text) / obs-qp
+
+ utf8-qcontent = utf8-qtext / utf8-quoted-pair
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+ utf8-quoted-string = [CFWS]
+ DQUOTE *([FWS] utf8-qcontent) [FWS] DQUOTE
+ [CFWS]
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+ utf8-ccontent = ctext / utf8-quoted-pair / comment
+
+ utf8-qtext = qtext / UTF8-xtra-char
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+ utf8-atext = ALPHA / DIGIT /
+ "!" / "#" / ; Any character except
+ "$" / "%" / ; controls, SP, and specials.
+ "&" / "'" / ; Used for atoms.
+ "*" / "+" /
+ "-" / "/" /
+ "=" / "?" /
+ "^" / "_" /
+ "`" / "{" /
+ "|" / "}" /
+ "~" /
+ UTF8-xtra-char
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+ utf8-atom = [CFWS] 1*utf8-atext [CFWS]
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+ utf8-dot-atom = [CFWS] utf8-dot-atom-text [CFWS]
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+ utf8-dot-atom-text = 1*utf8-atext *("." 1*utf8-atext)
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+ qcontent = utf8-qcontent
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+ To allow the use of UTF-8 in a Content-Description header field
+ [RFC2045], the following syntax is used:
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+ description = "Content-Description:" unstructured CRLF
+
+ The <utext> syntax is extended above to allow UTF-8 in all
+ <unstructured> header fields.
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+ Note, however, this does not remove any constraint on the character
+ set of protocol elements; for instance, all the allowed values for
+ timezone in the Date: headers are still expressed in ASCII. And
+ also, none of this revised syntax changes what is allowed in a
+ <msg-id>, which will still remain in pure ASCII.
+
+4.4. Change on addr-spec Syntax
+
+ Internationalized email addresses are represented in UTF-8. Thus,
+ all header fields containing <mailbox>es are updated to permit UTF-8
+ as well as an additional, optional all-ASCII alternate address. Note
+ that Message Submission Servers ("MSAs") and Message Transfer Agents
+ (MTAs) may downgrade internationalized messages as needed. The
+ procedure for doing so is described in [DOWNGRADE].
+
+ mailbox = name-addr / addr-spec / utf8-addr-spec
+
+ angle-addr =/ [CFWS] "<" utf8-addr-spec [ alt-address ] ">"
+ [CFWS] / obs-angle-addr
+
+ utf8-addr-spec = utf8-local-part "@" utf8-domain
+
+ utf8-local-part= utf8-dot-atom / utf8-quoted-string / obs-local-part
+
+ utf8-domain = utf8-dot-atom / domain-literal / obs-domain
+
+ alt-address = FWS "<" addr-spec ">"
+
+ Below are a few examples of possible <mailbox> representations.
+
+ "DISPLAY_NAME" <ASCII@ASCII>
+ ; traditional mailbox format
+
+ "DISPLAY_NAME" <non-ASCII@non-ASCII>
+ ; UTF8SMTP but no ALT-ADDRESS parameter provided,
+ ; message will bounce if UTF8SMTP extension is not supported
+
+ <non-ASCII@non-ASCII>
+ ; without DISPLAY_NAME and quoted string
+ ; UTF8SMTP but no ALT-ADDRESS parameter provided,
+ ; message will bounce if UTF8SMTP extension is not supported
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+ "DISPLAY_NAME" <non-ASCII@non-ASCII <ASCII@ASCII>>
+ ; UTF8SMTP with ALT-ADDRESS parameter provided,
+ ; ALT-ADDRESS can be used if downgrade is necessary
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+4.5. Trace Field Syntax
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+ "For" fields containing internationalized addresses are allowed, by
+ use of the new uFor syntax. UTF-8 information may be needed in
+ Received fields. Such information is therefore allowed to preserve
+ the integrity of those fields. The uFor syntax retains the original
+ UTF-8 email address between email address internationalization (EAI)-
+ aware MTAs. Note that, should downgrading be required, the uFor
+ parameter is dropped per the procedure specified in [DOWNGRADE].
+
+ The "Return-Path" header provides the email return address in the
+ mail delivery. Thus, the header is augmented to carry UTF-8
+ addresses (see the revised syntax of <angle-addr> in Section 4.4 of
+ this document). This will not break the rule of trace field
+ integrity, because the header is added at the last MTA and described
+ in [RFC2821].
+
+ The <item-value> on "Received:" syntax is augmented to allow UTF-8
+ email address in the "For" field. <angle-addr> is augmented to
+ include UTF-8 email address. In order to allow UTF-8 email addresses
+ in an <addr-spec>, <utf8-addr-spec> is added to <item-value>.
+
+ item-value =/ utf8-addr-spec
+
+4.6. message/global
+
+ Internationalized messages must only be transmitted as authorized by
+ [RFC5336] or within a non-SMTP environment which supports these
+ messages. A message is a "message/global message", if
+
+ o it contains UTF-8 header values as specified in this document, or
+
+ o it contains UTF-8 values in the headers fields of body parts.
+
+ The type message/global is similar to message/rfc822, except that it
+ contains a message that can contain UTF-8 characters in the headers
+ of the message or body parts. If this type is sent to a 7-bit-only
+ system, it has to be encoded in MIME [RFC2045]. (Note that a system
+ compliant with MIME that doesn't recognize message/global would treat
+ it as "application/octet-stream" as described in Section 5.2.4 of
+ [RFC2046].)
+
+ Alternatively, SMTP servers and other systems which transfer a
+ message/global body part MAY choose to down-convert it to a message/
+ rfc822 body part using the rules described in [DOWNGRADE].
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+ Type name: message
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+ Subtype name: global
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+ Required parameters: none
+
+ Optional parameters: none
+
+ Encoding considerations: Any content-transfer-encoding is permitted.
+ The 8-bit or binary content-transfer-encodings are recommended
+ where permitted.
+
+ Security considerations: See Section 5.
+
+ Interoperability considerations: The media type provides
+ functionality similar to the message/rfc822 content type for email
+ messages with international email headers. When there is a need
+ to embed or return such content in another message, there is
+ generally an option to use this media type and leave the content
+ unchanged or down-convert the content to message/rfc822. Both of
+ these choices will interoperate with the installed base, but with
+ different properties. Systems unaware of international headers
+ will typically treat a message/global body part as an unknown
+ attachment, while they will understand the structure of a message/
+ rfc822. However, systems that understand message/global will
+ provide functionality superior to the result of a down-conversion
+ to message/rfc822. The most interoperable choice depends on the
+ deployed software.
+
+ Published specification: RFC 5335
+
+ Applications that use this media type: SMTP servers and email
+ clients that support multipart/report generation or parsing.
+ Email clients which forward messages with international headers as
+ attachments.
+
+ Additional information:
+
+ Magic number(s): none
+
+ File extension(s): The extension ".u8msg" is suggested.
+
+ Macintosh file type code(s): A uniform type identifier (UTI) of
+ "public.utf8-email-message" is suggested. This conforms to
+ "public.message" and "public.composite-content", but does not
+ necessarily conform to "public.utf8-plain-text".
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+ Person & email address to contact for further information: See the
+ Author's Address section of this document.
+
+ Intended usage: COMMON
+
+ Restrictions on usage: This is a structured media type which embeds
+ other MIME media types. The 8-bit or binary content-transfer-
+ encoding MUST be used unless this media type is sent over a 7-bit-
+ only transport.
+
+ Author: See the Author's Address section of this document.
+
+ Change controller: IETF Standards Process
+
+5. Security Considerations
+
+ If a user has a non-ASCII mailbox address and an ASCII mailbox
+ address, a digital certificate that identifies that user may have
+ both addresses in the identity. Having multiple email addresses as
+ identities in a single certificate is already supported in PKIX
+ (Public Key Infrastructure for X.509 Certificates) and OpenPGP.
+
+ Because UTF-8 often requires several octets to encode a single
+ character, internationalized local parts may cause mail addresses to
+ become longer. As specified in [RFC2822], each line of characters
+ MUST be no more 998 octets, excluding the CRLF.
+
+ Because internationalized local parts may cause email addresses to be
+ longer, processes that parse, store, or handle email addresses or
+ local parts must take extra care not to overflow buffers, truncate
+ addresses, or exceed storage allotments. Also, they must take care,
+ when comparing, to use the entire lengths of the addresses.
+
+ In this specification, a user could provide an ASCII alternative
+ address for a non-ASCII address. However, it is possible these two
+ addresses go to different mailboxes, or even different people. This
+ configuration may be based on a user's personal choice or on
+ administration policy. We recognize that if ASCII and non-ASCII
+ email is delivered to two different destinations, based on MTA
+ capability, this may violate the principle of least astonishment, but
+ this is not a "protocol problem".
+
+ The security impact of UTF-8 headers on email signature systems such
+ as Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM), S/MIME, and OpenPGP is
+ discussed in RFC 4952, Section 9. A subsequent document [DOWNGRADE]
+ will cover the impact of downgrading on these systems.
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+6. IANA Considerations
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+ IANA has registered the message/global MIME type using the
+ registration form contained in Section 4.4.
+
+7. Acknowledgements
+
+ This document incorporates many ideas first described in Internet-
+ Draft form by Paul Hoffman, although many details have changed from
+ that earlier work.
+
+ The author especially thanks Jeff Yeh for his efforts and
+ contributions on editing previous versions.
+
+ Most of the content of this document is provided by John C Klensin.
+ Also, some significant comments and suggestions were received from
+ Charles H. Lindsey, Kari Hurtta, Pete Resnick, Alexey Melnikov, Chris
+ Newman, Yangwoo Ko, Yoshiro Yoneya, and other members of the JET team
+ (Joint Engineering Team) and were incorporated into the document.
+ The editor sincerely thanks them for their contributions.
+
+8. References
+
+8.1. Normative References
+
+ [RFC1652] Klensin, J., Freed, N., Rose, M., Stefferud, E., and D.
+ Crocker, "SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-
+ MIMEtransport", RFC 1652, July 1994.
+
+ [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
+
+ [RFC2821] Klensin, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 2821,
+ April 2001.
+
+ [RFC2822] Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822,
+ April 2001.
+
+ [RFC3629] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
+ 10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, November 2003.
+
+ [RFC4952] Klensin, J. and Y. Ko, "Overview and Framework for
+ Internationalized Email", RFC 4952, July 2007.
+
+ [RFC5198] Klensin, J. and M. Padlipsky, "Unicode Format for
+ Network Interchange", RFC 5198, March 2008.
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+ [RFC5234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
+ Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.
+
+ [RFC5336] Yao, J., Ed. and W. Mao, Ed., "SMTP Extension for
+ Internationalized Email Addresses", RFC 5336,
+ September 2008.
+
+8.2. Informative References
+
+ [DOWNGRADE] Fujiwara, K. and Y. Yoneya, "Downgrading mechanism for
+ Email Address Internationalization", Work in Progress,
+ July 2008.
+
+ [EAI-POP] Newman, C. and R. Gellens, "POP3 Support for UTF-8",
+ Work in Progress, July 2008.
+
+ [IMAP-UTF8] Resnick, P. and C. Newman, "IMAP Support for UTF-8",
+ Work in Progress, April 2008.
+
+ [RFC2045] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
+ Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message
+ Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996.
+
+ [RFC2046] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
+ Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046,
+ November 1996.
+
+ [RFC2047] Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
+ Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII
+ Text", RFC 2047, November 1996.
+
+Author's Address
+
+ Abel Yang (editor)
+ TWNIC
+ 4F-2, No. 9, Sec 2, Roosvelt Rd.
+ Taipei, 100
+ Taiwan
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+RFC 5335 I18N Email Headers September 2008
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