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+Network Working Group                                       E. Levinson
+Request for Comments: 2387                                  August 1998
+Obsoletes: 2112
+Category: Standards Track
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+                The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
+
+Status of this Memo
+
+   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
+   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
+   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
+
+Copyright Notice
+
+   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.
+
+Abstract
+
+   The Multipart/Related content-type provides a common mechanism for
+   representing objects that are aggregates of related MIME body parts.
+   This document defines the Multipart/Related content-type and provides
+   examples of its use.
+
+1.  Introduction
+
+   Several applications of MIME, including MIME-PEM, and MIME-Macintosh
+   and other proposals, require multiple body parts that make sense only
+   in the aggregate.  The present approach to these compound objects has
+   been to define specific multipart subtypes for each new object.  In
+   keeping with the MIME philosophy of having one mechanism to achieve
+   the same goal for different purposes, this document describes a
+   single mechanism for such aggregate or compound objects.
+
+   The Multipart/Related content-type addresses the MIME representation
+   of compound objects.  The object is categorized by a "type"
+   parameter.  Additional parameters are provided to indicate a specific
+   starting body part or root and auxiliary information which may be
+   required when unpacking or processing the object.
+
+   Multipart/Related MIME entities may contain Content-Disposition
+   headers that provide suggestions for the storage and display of a
+   body part.  Multipart/Related processing takes precedence over
+   Content-Disposition; the interaction between them is discussed in
+   section 4.
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+Levinson                    Standards Track                     [Page 1]
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+RFC 2387                   Multipart/Related                 August 1998
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+   Responsibility for the display or processing of a Multipart/Related's
+   constituent entities rests with the application that handles the
+   compound object.
+
+2.  Multipart/Related Registration Information
+
+   The following form is copied from RFC 1590, Appendix A.
+
+     To:  IANA@isi.edu
+     Subject:  Registration of new Media Type content-type/subtype
+
+     Media Type name:           Multipart
+
+     Media subtype name:        Related
+
+     Required parameters:       Type, a media type/subtype.
+
+     Optional parameters:       Start
+                                Start-info
+
+     Encoding considerations:   Multipart content-types cannot have
+                                encodings.
+
+     Security considerations:   Depends solely on the referenced type.
+
+     Published specification:   RFC-REL (this document).
+
+     Person & email address to contact for further information:
+                                Edward Levinson
+                                47 Clive Street
+                                Metuchen, NJ  08840-1060
+                                +1 908 494 1606
+                                XIson@cnj.digex.net
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+3.  Intended usage
+
+   The Multipart/Related media type is intended for compound objects
+   consisting of several inter-related body parts.  For a
+   Multipart/Related object, proper display cannot be achieved by
+   individually displaying the constituent body parts.  The content-type
+   of the Multipart/Related object is specified by the type parameter.
+   The "start" parameter, if given, points, via a content-ID, to the
+   body part that contains the object root.  The default root is the
+   first body part within the Multipart/Related body.
+
+   The relationships among the body parts of a compound object
+   distinguishes it from other object types.  These relationships are
+   often represented by links internal to the object's components that
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+   reference the other components.  Within a single operating
+   environment the links are often file names, such links may be
+   represented within a MIME message using content-IDs or the value of
+   some other "Content-" headers.
+
+3.1.  The Type Parameter
+
+   The type parameter must be specified and its value is the MIME media
+   type of the "root" body part.  It permits a MIME user agent to
+   determine the content-type without reference to the enclosed body
+   part.  If the value of the type parameter and the root body part's
+   content-type differ then the User Agent's behavior is undefined.
+
+3.2.  The Start Parameter
+
+   The start parameter, if given, is the content-ID of the compound
+   object's "root".  If not present the "root" is the first body part in
+   the Multipart/Related entity.  The "root" is the element the
+   applications processes first.
+
+3.3.  The Start-Info Parameter
+
+   Additional information can be provided to an application by the
+   start-info parameter.  It contains either a string or points, via a
+   content-ID, to another MIME entity in the message.  A typical use
+   might be to provide additional command line parameters or a MIME
+   entity giving auxiliary information for processing the compound
+   object.
+
+   Applications that use Multipart/Related must specify the
+   interpretation of start-info.  User Agents shall provide the
+   parameter's value to the processing application.  Processes can
+   distinguish a start-info reference from a token or quoted-string by
+   examining the first non-white-space character, "<" indicates a
+   reference.
+
+3.4.  Syntax
+
+     related-param   := [ ";" "start" "=" cid ]
+                        [ ";" "start-info"  "="
+                           ( cid-list / value ) ]
+                        [ ";" "type"  "=" type "/" subtype ]
+                        ; order independent
+
+     cid-list        := cid cid-list
+
+     cid             := msg-id     ; c.f. [822]
+
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+     value           := token / quoted-string    ; c.f. [MIME]
+                           ; value cannot begin with "<"
+
+   Note that the parameter values will usually require quoting.  Msg-id
+   contains the special characters "<", ">", "@", and perhaps other
+   special characters.  If msg-id contains quoted-strings, those quote
+   marks must be escaped.  Similarly, the type parameter contains the
+   special character "/".
+
+4.  Handling Content-Disposition Headers
+
+   Content-Disposition Headers [DISP] suggest presentation styles for
+   MIME body parts.  [DISP] describes two presentation styles, called
+   the disposition type, INLINE and ATTACHMENT.  These, used within a
+   multipart entity, allow the sender to suggest presentation
+   information.  [DISP] also provides for an optional storage (file)
+   name.  Content-Disposition headers could appear in one or more body
+   parts contained within a Multipart/Related entity.
+
+   Using Content-Disposition headers in addition to Multipart/Related
+   provides presentation information to User Agents that do not
+   recognize Multipart/Related.  They will treat the multipart as
+   Multipart/Mixed and they may find the Content-Disposition information
+   useful.
+
+   With Multipart/Related however, the application processing the
+   compound object determines the presentation style for all the
+   contained parts.  In that context the Content-Disposition header
+   information is redundant or even misleading.  Hence, User Agents that
+   understand Multipart/Related shall ignore the disposition type within
+   a Multipart/Related body part.
+
+   It may be possible for a User Agent capable of handling both
+   Multipart/Related and Content-Disposition headers to provide the
+   invoked application the Content-Disposition header's optional
+   filename parameter to the Multipart/Related.  The use of that
+   information will depend on the specific application and should be
+   specified when describing the handling of the corresponding compound
+   object.  Such descriptions would be appropriate in an RFC registering
+   that object's media type.
+
+5.  Examples
+
+5.1 Application/X-FixedRecord
+
+   The X-FixedRecord content-type consists of one or more octet-streams
+   and a list of the lengths of each record.  The root, which lists the
+   record lengths of each record within the streams.  The record length
+
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+   list, type Application/X-FixedRecord, consists of a set of INTEGERs
+   in ASCII format, one per line.  Each INTEGER gives the number of
+   octets from the octet-stream body part that constitute the next
+   "record".
+
+   The example below, uses a single data block.
+
+     Content-Type: Multipart/Related; boundary=example-1
+             start="<950120.aaCC@XIson.com>";
+             type="Application/X-FixedRecord"
+             start-info="-o ps"
+
+     --example-1
+     Content-Type: Application/X-FixedRecord
+     Content-ID: <950120.aaCC@XIson.com>
+
+     25
+     10
+     34
+     10
+     25
+     21
+     26
+     10
+     --example-1
+     Content-Type: Application/octet-stream
+     Content-Description: The fixed length records
+     Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
+     Content-ID: <950120.aaCB@XIson.com>
+
+     T2xkIE1hY0RvbmFsZCBoYWQgYSBmYXJtCkUgSS
+     BFIEkgTwpBbmQgb24gaGlzIGZhcm0gaGUgaGFk
+     IHNvbWUgZHVja3MKRSBJIEUgSSBPCldpdGggYS
+     BxdWFjayBxdWFjayBoZXJlLAphIHF1YWNrIHF1
+     YWNrIHRoZXJlLApldmVyeSB3aGVyZSBhIHF1YW
+     NrIHF1YWNrCkUgSSBFIEkgTwo=
+
+     --example-1--
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+5.2 Text/X-Okie
+
+   The Text/X-Okie is an invented markup language permitting the
+   inclusion of images with text.  A feature of this example is the
+   inclusion of two additional body parts, both picture. They are
+   referred to internally by the encapsulated document via each
+   picture's body part content-ID.  Usage of "cid:", as in this example,
+   may be useful for a variety of compound objects.  It is not, however,
+   a part of the Multipart/Related specification.
+
+     Content-Type: Multipart/Related; boundary=example-2;
+             start="<950118.AEBH@XIson.com>"
+             type="Text/x-Okie"
+
+     --example-2
+     Content-Type: Text/x-Okie; charset=iso-8859-1;
+             declaration="<950118.AEB0@XIson.com>"
+     Content-ID: <950118.AEBH@XIson.com>
+     Content-Description: Document
+
+     {doc}
+     This picture was taken by an automatic camera mounted ...
+     {image file=cid:950118.AECB@XIson.com}
+     {para}
+     Now this is an enlargement of the area ...
+     {image file=cid:950118:AFDH@XIson.com}
+     {/doc}
+     --example-2
+     Content-Type: image/jpeg
+     Content-ID: <950118.AFDH@XIson.com>
+     Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
+     Content-Description: Picture A
+
+     [encoded jpeg image]
+     --example-2
+     Content-Type: image/jpeg
+     Content-ID: <950118.AECB@XIson.com>
+     Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
+     Content-Description: Picture B
+
+     [encoded jpeg image]
+     --example-2--
+
+5.3 Content-Disposition
+
+   In the above example each image body part could also have a Content-
+   Disposition header.  For example,
+
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+     --example-2
+     Content-Type: image/jpeg
+     Content-ID: <950118.AECB@XIson.com>
+     Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
+     Content-Description: Picture B
+     Content-Disposition: INLINE
+
+     [encoded jpeg image]
+     --example-2--
+
+   User Agents that recognize Multipart/Related will ignore the
+   Content-Disposition header's disposition type.  Other User Agents
+   will process the Multipart/Related as Multipart/Mixed and may make
+   use of that header's information.
+
+6.  User Agent Requirements
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+   User agents that do not recognize Multipart/Related shall, in
+   accordance with [MIME], treat the entire entity as Multipart/Mixed.
+   MIME User Agents that do recognize Multipart/Related entities but are
+   unable to process the given type should give the user the option of
+   suppressing the entire Multipart/Related body part shall be.
+
+   Existing MIME-capable mail user agents (MUAs) handle the existing
+   media types in a straightforward manner.  For discrete media types
+   (e.g. text, image, etc.) the body of the entity can be directly
+   passed to a display process.  Similarly the existing composite
+   subtypes can be reduced to handing one or more discrete types.
+   Handling Multipart/Related differs in that processing cannot be
+   reduced to handling the individual entities.
+
+   The following sections discuss what information the processing
+   application requires.
+
+   It is possible that an application specific "receiving agent" will
+   manipulate the entities for display prior to invoking actual
+   application process.  Okie, above, is an example of this; it may need
+   a receiving agent to parse the document and substitute local file
+   names for the originator's file names.  Other applications may just
+   require a table showing the correspondence between the local file
+   names and the originator's.  The receiving agent takes responsibility
+   for such processing.
+
+6.1 Data Requirements
+
+   MIME-capable mail user agents (MUAs) are required to provide the
+   application:
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+   (a) the bodies of the MIME entities and the entity Content-* headers,
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+   (b) the parameters of the Multipart/Related Content-type header, and
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+   (c) the correspondence between each body's local file name, that
+       body's header data, and, if present, the body part's content-ID.
+
+6.2 Storing Multipart/Related Entities
+
+   The Multipart/Related media type will be used for objects that have
+   internal linkages between the body parts.  When the objects are
+   stored the linkages may require processing by the application or its
+   receiving agent.
+
+6.3 Recursion
+
+   MIME is a recursive structure.  Hence one must expect a
+   Multipart/Related entity to contain other Multipart/Related entities.
+   When a Multipart/Related entity is being processed for display or
+   storage, any enclosed Multipart/Related entities shall be processed
+   as though they were being stored.
+
+6.4 Configuration Considerations
+
+   It is suggested that MUAs that use configuration mechanisms, see
+   [CFG] for an example, refer to Multipart/Related as Multi-
+   part/Related/<type>, were <type> is the value of the "type"
+   parameter.
+
+7.  Security Considerations
+
+   Security considerations relevant to Multipart/Related are identical
+   to those of the underlying content-type.
+
+8.  Acknowledgments
+
+   This proposal is the result of conversations the author has had with
+   many people.  In particular, Harald A. Alvestrand, James Clark,
+   Charles Goldfarb, Gary Houston, Ned Freed, Ray Moody, and Don
+   Stinchfield, provided both encouragement and invaluable help.  The
+   author, however, take full responsibility for all errors contained in
+   this document.
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+9.  References
+
+   [822]       Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet
+               Text Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, August 1982.
+
+   [CID]       Levinson, E., and J. Clark, "Message/External-Body
+               Content-ID Access Type",  RFC 1873, December 1995,
+               Levinson, E., "Message/External-Body Content-ID Access
+               Type", Work in Progress.
+
+   [CFG]       Borenstein, N., "A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For
+               Multimedia Mail Format Information", RFC 1524, September
+               1993.
+
+   [DISP]      Troost, R., and S. Dorner, "Communicating Presentation
+               Information in Internet Messages:  The Content-
+               Disposition Header", RFC 1806, June 1995.
+
+   [MIME]      Borenstein, N., and Freed, N., "Multipurpose Internet
+               Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet
+               Message Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996.
+
+9.  Author's Address
+
+   Edward Levinson
+   47 Clive Street
+   Metuchen, NJ  08840-1060
+   USA
+
+   Phone: +1 908 494 1606
+   EMail: XIson@cnj.digex.com
+
+10.  Changes from previous draft (RFC 2112)
+
+   Corrected cid urls to conform to RFC 2111; the angle brackets were
+   removed.
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+11.  Full Copyright Statement
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