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        RFC 2298:
 
        Title:      An Extensible Message Format
                    for Message Disposition Notifications
        Author(s):  R. Fajman
        Status:     Proposed Standard
        Date:       March 1998
        Mailbox:    raf@cu.nih.gov
        Pages:      28
        Characters: 62059
        Updates/Obsoletes: None

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2298.txt
 
This memo defines a MIME content-type that may be used by a mail
user agent (UA) or electronic mail gateway to report the disposition
of a message after it has been sucessfully delivered to a recipient.
This content-type is intended to be machine-processable.  Additional
message headers are also defined to permit Message Disposition
Notifications (MDNs) to be requested by the sender of a message.
The purpose is to extend Internet Mail to support functionality
often found in other messaging systems, such as X.400 and the
proprietary "LAN-based" systems, and often referred to as "read
receipts," "acknowledgements," or "receipt notifications."  The
intention is to do this while respecting the privacy concerns that
have often been expressed when such functions have been discussed in
the past.

This document is a product of the Receipt Notifications for Internet
Mail Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute