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<reference anchor='RFC1437'>

<front>
<title abbrev='MIME Content-Types for a New Medium'>The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium</title>
<author initials='N.' surname='Borenstein' fullname='Nathaniel Borenstein'>
<organization>Bellcore</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>445 South Street</street>
<street>Bellcore Room MRE 2D-296</street>
<city>Morristown</city>
<region>NJ</region>
<code>07962-1910</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 201 829 4270</phone>
<email>nsb@bellcore.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='M.' surname='Linimon' fullname='Mark Linimon'>
<organization>Lonesome Dove Computing Services</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>P.O. Box 20291</street>
<city>Roanoke</city>
<region>VA</region>
<code>24018</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 703 776 1004</phone>
<email>linimon@LONESOME.COM</email></address></author>
<date month='April' day='1' year='1993' />
<abstract>
<t>A previous document, RFC 1341, defines a format and general framework for the representation of a wide variety of data types in Internet mail.  This document defines one particular type of MIME data, the matter-transport/sentient-life-form type.  The matter- transport/sentient-life-form MIME type is intended to facilitate the wider interoperation of electronic mail messages that include entire sentient life forms, such as human beings.</t>
<t>Other informally proposed subtypes, such as "non-sentient-life-form", "non-sentient-non-life-form", and the orthogonally necessary but nevertheless puzzling "sentient-non-life-form", are not described in this memo.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1437' />
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