File formats:

Status:

INTERNET STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 733

Obsoleted by:

RFC 2822

Updated by:

RFC 1123, RFC 2156, RFC 1327, RFC 1138, RFC 1148

Author:

D. Crocker

Stream:

[Legacy]

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC0822

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Abstract

This document revises the specifications in RFC 733, in order to serve the needs of the larger and more complex ARPA Internet. Some of RFC 733's features failed to gain adequate acceptance. In order to simplify the standard and the software that follows it, these features have been removed. A different addressing scheme is used, to handle the case of internetwork mail; and the concept of re-transmission has been introduced. Obsoletes RFC 733, NIC 41952.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.