[RFC-1874]  Levinson, E., "SGML Media Types", RFC 1874. December
               1995.

   [RFC-2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
               Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC-2045]  Freed, N., and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
               Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message
               Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996.

   [RFC-2046]  Freed, N., and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
               Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046,
               November 1996.

   [RFC-2068]  Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., and T.
               Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1",
               RFC 2068, January 1997.

   [RFC-2279]  Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
               10646", RFC 2279, January 1998.

   [UNICODE]   The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard -- Version
               2.0", Addison-Wesley, 1996.






 
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8  Acknowledgements

   Chris Newman and Yaron Y. Goland both contributed content to the
   security considerations section of this document.  In particular,
   some text in the security considerations section is copied verbatim
   from work in progress, draft-newman-mime-textpara-00, by permission
   of the author.  Chris Newman additionally contributed content to the
   encoding considerations sections. Dan Connolly contributed content
   discussing when to use text/xml. Discussions with Ned Freed and Dan
   Connolly helped refine the author's understanding of the text media
   type; feedback from Larry Masinter was also very helpful in
   understanding media type registration issues.

   Members of the W3C XML Working Group and XML Special Interest group
   have made significant contributions to this document, and the authors
   would like to specially recognize James Clark, Martin Duerst, Rick
   Jelliffe, Gavin Nicol for their many thoughtful comments.

9  Addresses of Authors

   E. James Whitehead, Jr.
   Dept. of Information and Computer Science
   University of California, Irvine
   Irvine, CA 92697-3425

   EMail: ejw@ics.uci.edu


   Murata Makoto (Family Given)
   Fuji Xerox Information Systems,
   KSP 9A7, 2-1, Sakado 3-chome, Takatsu-ku,
   Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken,
   213 Japan

   EMail: murata@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp

















 
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