From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!djmdavies
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: RFC-733, what is it?
Article-I.D.: watmath.2570
Posted: Thu Jun 10 09:26:44 1982
Received: Fri Jun 11 04:47:47 1982
References: unc.3523

People who are interested in network message headers should be aware that
there is a draft standard available from NBS for message headers.  This
draft is being studied within IFIP WG6.5, and may form the basis for
eventual CCITT standardization.

This proposed standard differs from RFC-733; it is language inddependant
(using numeric codes rather than english keywords); and defines a superset
of 733's list of fields.  Anyone looking at Inter-networking of messages
should be tracking this (I think).  Probably the ARPAnet guys will stick
with their english-only all-ASCII headers, I suppose.  Probably USENET
will also stick with the pseudo-RFC-733 headers now used, for internal
distribution.  [Are there any USENET sites in non-English-speaking
countries?]
		Julian Davies,  Univ. Western Ontario