MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (mhtml)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     Einar Stefferud <stef@nma.com>
 
 Applications Area Director(s): 
     Keith Moore  <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
 
 Area Advisor
     Keith Moore  <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
 
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Description of Working Group:
 
World Wide Web documents are written using Hyper Text Markup Language
(HTML). HTML is notable in that it contains "embedded content"; that
is, HTML documents often contain pointers to other objects (images,
external references) which are presented to the recipient. Currently,
Web documents are transported almost exclusively via the interactive
HTTP protocol. The MHTML working group will develop specifications to
permit the transport of Web documents via Internet mail. Tasks include
specification of MIME encapsulation of Web documents (the HTML document
and the set of documents to which it refers) required for Internet mail
as well as specification of any HTML formatting conversions that are
needed to accomplish the transport of documents in such a
"disconnected" environment. The working group will also produce an
informational discussion about Web page formatting choices that affect
their efficient use through disconnected channels.The working group
intends to develop these standards in a way that maintains
interoperability between separate HTTP-based systems and Internet mail
systems, as well as being suitable for combined mail/HTTP browser
systems.

It is beyond the scope of this working group to come up with standards
for document formats other than Web documents. However, standards
produced by the working group may be designed in such a way to allow
other such formats to use similar strategies.

The editors of this group are:
Main editor: 	  Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
Associate editor: Alex Hopmann <alex.hop@resnova.co>
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Mar 96       Clarify issues and submit first Internet-Draft.                

   Jun 96       Submit first Internet-Draft for MIME encapsulation of HTML.    

   Sep 96       Submit MHTML specification to IESG for consideration as a 
                Proposed Standard.                                             

   Oct 96       Submit Internet-Draft for guidelines in created documents for 
                disconnected access.                                           

   Dec 96       Submit guidelines Internet-Draft to IESG for consideration as 
                an Informational RFC.                                          


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised       I-D Title  <Filename>
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 Apr 96 Jul 96  <draft-ietf-mhtml-spec-02.txt> 
                MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML 
                (MHTML)                                                        
 
 May 96 Jul 96  <draft-ietf-mhtml-info-02.txt> 
                Sending HTML in E-mail, an informational supplement to RFC ???:
                MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML)  
 
 May 96 New     <draft-ietf-mhtml-related-00.txt> 
                The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type                        

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.