The IESG has approved following document:
- 'The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters '
<draft-gellens-format-bis-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group.
The IESG contact person is Ned Freed.
Technical Summary
This specification establishes two parameters (Format and DelSP) to
be used with the Text/Plain media type. In the presence of these
parameters, trailing whitespace is used to indicate flowed lines and
a canonical quote indicator is used to indicate quoted lines. This
results in an encoding which appears as normal Text/Plain in older
implementations, since it is in fact normal Text/Plain, yet provides
for superior wrapping/flowing, and quoting.
This standard supersedes the one specified in RFC 2646, "The
Text/Plain Format Parameter", and adds the DelSp parameter to
accommodate languages/coded character sets in which ASCII spaces are
not used or appear rarely.
Working Group Summary
This document was reviewed on the ietf-822@imc.org mailing list
but is not the product of any IETF working group.
Protocol Quality
Ned Freed reviewed the specification for the IESG.
RFC Editor note:
In the abstract, change "This standard supersedes" to "This
document supersedes".
Section 1 is to be removed prior to publication.
In section 7, ABNF, replace the rule:
quote = 1*">"
with:
QUOTE-MARK = ">"
quote = 1*QUOTE-MARK
and replace:
non-sp-quote = < any character except NUL, CR, LF, SP, ">" >
non-sp = non-sp-quote / ">"
with:
non-sp-quote = < any character except NUL, CR, LF, SP, QUOTE-MARK >
non-sp = non-sp-quote / QUOTE-MARK
