RFC 2447 (rfc2447) - Page 2 of 18

iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)

RFC 2447                          iMIP                     November 1998


Table of Contents

 1 INTRODUCTION........................................................2
  1.1 RELATED MEMOS ...................................................2
  1.2 FORMATTING CONVENTIONS ..........................................3
  1.3 TERMINOLOGY .....................................................4
 2 MIME MESSAGE FORMAT BINDING.........................................4
  2.1 MIME MEDIA TYPE .................................................4
  2.2 SECURITY ........................................................4
    2.2.1 Authorization ...............................................4
    2.2.2 Authentication ..............................................5
    2.2.3 Confidentiality .............................................5
  2.3 [RFC-822] ADDRESSES .............................................5
  2.4 CONTENT TYPE ....................................................5
  2.5 CONTENT-TRANSFER-ENCODING .......................................6
  2.6 CONTENT-DISPOSITION .............................................6
 3 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS.............................................7
 4 EXAMPLES............................................................8
  4.1 SINGLE COMPONENT WITH AN ATTACH PROPERTY ........................8
  4.2 USING MULTIPART ALTERNATIVE FOR LOW FIDELITY CLIENTS ............8
  4.3 SINGLE COMPONENT WITH AN ATTACH PROPERTY AND INLINE ATTACHMENT ..9
  4.4 MULTIPLE SIMILAR COMPONENTS ....................................10
  4.5 MULTIPLE MIXED COMPONENTS ......................................11
  4.6 DETAILED COMPONENTS WITH AN ATTACH PROPERTY ....................13
 5 RECOMMENDED PRACTICES..............................................14
  5.1 USE OF CONTENT AND MESSAGE IDS .................................14
 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY.......................................................15
 7 AUTHORS' ADDRESSES.................................................16
 8 FULL COPYRIGHT STATEMENT...........................................18

1 Introduction

   This binding document provides the transport specific information
   necessary convey iCalendar Transport-independent Interoperability
   Protocol (iTIP) over MIME as defined in [RFC-822] and [RFC-2045].

1.1 Related Memos

   Implementers will need to be familiar with several other memos that,
   along with this memo, form a framework for Internet calendaring and
   scheduling standards.

   This document, [iMIP], specifies an Internet email binding for iTIP.

   [iCAL] - specifies a core specification of objects, data types,
   properties and property parameters;





Dawson, et. al.             Standards Track