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        RFC 1468:

        Title:      Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
        Author:     J. Murai, M. Crispin & E. van der Poel
        Mailbox:    jun@wide.ad.jp, MRC@PANDA.COM,
                    erik@poel.juice.or.jp
        Pages:      6
        Characters: 10,970
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none


This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail and
network news messages in several Japanese networks.  It was first
specified by and used in JUNET.  The encoding is now also widely used
in Japanese IP communities.  The name given to this encoding is
"ISO-2022-JP", which is intended to be used in the "charset" parameter
field of MIME headers.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute