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RFC 6856
Title: Post Office Protocol Version 3
(POP3) Support for UTF-8
Author: R. Gellens, C. Newman,
J. Yao, K. Fujiwara
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: March 2013
Mailbox: rg+ietf@qualcomm.com,
chris.newman@oracle.com,
yaojk@cnnic.cn,
fujiwara@jprs.co.jp
Pages: 14
Characters: 26790
Obsoletes: RFC5721
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis-08.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6856.txt
This specification extends the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3)
to support international strings encoded in UTF-8 in usernames,
passwords, mail addresses, message headers, and protocol-level text
strings.
This document is a product of the Email Address Internationalization Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet
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