News related RFCs and Drafts

News

• NNTP
  • Network News Transfer Protocol (RFC 3977)
  • Common NNTP Extensions (RFC 2980)
  • Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Additions to LIST Command (RFC 6048)
  • Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Compression (RFC 8054)
  • Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Authentication (RFC 4643)
  • Using Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) (RFC 4642)
  • Using Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) (RFC 8143)
  • Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Streaming Feeds (RFC 4644)
• News Article Formart
  • Netnews Article Format (RFC 5536)
  • Netnews Architecture and Protocols (RFC 5537)
  • Cancel-Locks in Netnews articles (RFC 8315)
• The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes (RFC 5538)
• Netnews Administration System (NAS) (RFC 4707)

Mail

• SMTP
  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (RFC 5321)
  • Transition of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8 to 8bit-SMTP/MIME (RFC 1428)
  • SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport (RFC 1652)
  • SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart (RFC 1845)
  • SMTP 521 Reply Code (RFC 1846)
  • SMTP Service Extensions (RFC 1869)
  • SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration (RFC 1870)
  • SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) (RFC 3461)
  • Enhanced Mail System Status Codes (RFC 3463)
  • SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting (RFC 1985)
  • SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes (RFC 2034)
  • SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (RFC 2554)
  • Message Submission (RFC 2476)
  • On Demand Mail Rely (ODMR) SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses (RFC 2645)
  • Deliver By SMTP Service Extension (RFC 2852)
  • SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (RFC 2920)
  • SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages (RFC 3030)
  • SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security (RFC 3207)
  • A No Soliciting Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service Extension (RFC 3865)
• Mail Message Formart
  • Internet Message Format (RFC 5322)
  • Message Context for Internet Mail (RFC 3458)
  • Common Internet Message Headers (RFC 2076)
  • Digest Message Format (RFC 1153)
• Internationalized Email
  • Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email (RFC 6530)
  • SMTP Extension for Internationalized Email (RFC 6531)
  • Internationalized Email Headers (RFC 6532)
  • Internationalized Delivery Status and Disposition Notifications (RFC 6533)

MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

• A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information (RFC 1524)
• Format of Internet Message Bodies (RFC 2045)
• Media Types (RFC 2046)
• Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text (RFC 2047)
• Registration Procedures (RFC 2048)
• Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields (RFC 3864)
• Registration of Mail and MIME Header Fields (RFC 4021)
• Conformance Criteria and Examples (RFC 2049)
• Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field (RFC 2183)
• MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions (RFC 2231)
• The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters (RFC 3676)
• The Content-MD5 Header Field (RFC 1864)
• Content Language Headers (RFC 3282)
• Tags for Identification of Languages (RFC 3066)
• MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) (RFC 2015)
• MIME Security with OpenPGP (RFC 3156)
• An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications (RFC 1894)
• An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications (RFC 2298)
• The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages (RFC 3462)
• Critical Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Parameter (RFC 3459)
• Update to MIME regarding "charset" Parameter Handling in Textual Media Types (RFC 6657)
• The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings (RFC 4648)
• Unicode
  • Using Unicode with MIME (RFC 1641)
  • UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode (RFC 2152)
  • UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 (RFC 3629)
  • UTF-16 - A encoding of ISO 10646 (RFC 2781)
  • Language Tagging in Unicode Plain Text (RFC 2482)
• Character Encodings
  • Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (RFC 1468)
  • Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (RFC 2237)
  • ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP" (RFC 1554)
  • Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages (RFC 1555)
  • Korean Character Encoding for Internet Messages (RFC 1557)
  • Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (RFC 1922)
  • ASCII Printable Characters-Based Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (RFC 1842)
  • Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages (RFC 1947)

Misc

• Netiquette Guidelines (RFC 1855)
• Mailbox Names For Common Services, Roles And Functions (RFC 2142)
• How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-Mail and Newsgroups or - how NOT to $$$$$ MAKE ENEMIES FAST! $$$$$ (RFC 3098)
• DON'T SPEW - A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (RFC 2635)
• Anti Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs (RFC 2505)
• A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools and Utilities (RFC 2151)
• Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support (RFC 1123)
• Reserved Top Level DNS Names (RFC 2606)
• Identification Protocol (IDENT) (RFC1413)

Obsolete RFCs

• Simple Mail Transfer Protokol (RFC 821) obsoleted by RFC 2821
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (RFC 2821) obsoleted by RFC 5321
• ARPA Internet Text Messages Format (RFC 822) obsoleted by RFC 2822
• Internet Message Format (RFC 2822) obsoleted by RFC 5322
• Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages (RFC 850) obsoleted by RFC 1036
• Network News Transfer Protocol (RFC 977) obsoleted by RFC 3977
• Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages (RFC 1036) obsoleted by RFC 5536
• "Son of 1036": News Article Format and Transmission (RFC 1849) obsoleted by RFC 5536, RFC 5537
• Assigned Numbers (RFC 1700) obsoleted by RFC 3232

Obsolete Drafts

• NNTP LIST Additions [draft] expired
• NNTP Generic Data Extensions [draft] expired
• NNTP Extensions for Dynamic Feed Adjustments [draft] expired
• NNTP Full-text Search Extension [draft] expired
• A Protocol for the Transmission of Net News Articles over IP multicast [draft] expired
• An X-IDNA Profile for Network News Group Names [draft] expired
• Recommendations for generating Message IDs[draft] expired
• Guidelines for the Generation of Message IDs and Similar Unique Identifiers [draft] expired
• Cancel-Locks in Usenet articles [draft] expired
• Signed Headers in Mail and Netnews [draft] expired
• Identification of messages delivered via both mail and news [draft] expired
• Support for Language Translation in E-Mail and Netnews [draft] expired
• Reply Posting Guidelines in One to Many Communications [draft] expired
• Messages between Email and Netnews [draft] expired
• Netnews header field registration [draft] expired
• Usenet Best Practice [draft] expired
• HNEWS: An HTTP-Tunneling News Protocol [draft] expired
• The hnews URL scheme [draft] expired