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        RFC 2130:

        Title:      The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop
                    held 29 February - 1 March, 1996
        Author:     C. Weider, C. Preston, K. Simonsen, H. Alvestrand,
                    R. Atkinson, M. Crispin, P. Svanberg
        Date:       April 1997
        Mailbox:    cweider@microsoft.com, cecilia@well.com,
                    Keld@dkuug.dk, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no,
                    rja@cisco.com, mrc@cac.washington.edu, 
                    psv@nada.kth.se
        Pages:      31
        Characters: 63443
        Updates/Obsoletes: None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2130.txt


This report details the conclusions of an IAB-sponsored invitational
workshop held 29 February  - 1 March, 1996, to discuss the use of
character sets on the Internet.  It motivates the need to have
character set handling in Internet protocols which transmit text,
provides a conceptual framework for specifying character sets,
recommends the use of MIME tagging for transmitted text, recommends a
default character set *without* stating that there is no need for
other character sets, and makes a series of recommendations to the
IAB, IANA, and the IESG for furthering the integration of the
character set framework into text transmission protocols. This
document is the product of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Mary Kennedy
USC/Information Sciences Institute