Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id GAA24622; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 06:34:08 -0500 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (bulk_mailer v1.3); Fri, 5 Jan 1996 06:33:46 -0500 Received: from ester.dsv.su.se by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id GAA24605; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 06:33:44 -0500 Received: (from jpalme@localhost) by ester.dsv.su.se (8.7.1/8.7.1) id MAA01262; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 12:33:42 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 12:33:42 +0100 (MET) From: Jacob Palme To: ietf-drums Subject: Name of RFC822 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Because of the confusion created by chaning RFC numbers for new versions of IETF standards, and because the STD numbers are not a great success, more and more IETF standards have textual names. Example: SMTP, ESTMTP, HTML, HTTP etc. RFC822 ought to have such a name now when its RFC number will not be 822 any more. Some suggestions: MAILFORMAT MAILCONTENT MAILBODY MFORMAT MFORM MCONTENT MBODY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme