RFC 1590: Media Type Registration Procedure

Several questions have been raised about the requirements and administrative procedure for registering MIME content-type and subtypes, and the use of these…

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Outgoing relationships (2 related RFCs)

Updates, Informative reference — RFC 1521: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies
Informative reference — RFC 1543: Instructions to RFC Authors

Incoming relationships (14 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Obsoleted by — RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
Obsoleted by — RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Obsoleted by — RFC 2048: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures
Obsoleted by — RFC 2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1866: Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2978: IANA Charset Registration Procedures
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9193: Sensor Measurement Lists (SenML) Fields for Indicating Data Value Content-Format
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1874: SGML Media Types
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2017: Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1820: Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent Checklist
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1844: Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent Checklist