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Bibliography
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This section shows you bibliography. RFC(Request For Comments) is a
series of documents to share our knowledge about the Internet Protocol
suite. It is available, for instance, from the following repository.

     ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/

If you are a beginner of Email and NetNews and don't know the systems
well, the following would be a cheerful starter(Sorry, it's written in
Japanese).

   * Kazuhiko Yamamoto, "Happy Networking", ASCII Publishing, 1994.

Please read the following RFC to learn manner on the Internet.

   * S. Hambridge, "Netiquette Guidelines", RFC 1855, 1995

To understand the format of good old text Email and the delivery
system, please refer to:

   * D. Crocker, "Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text
     messages", RFC 822, 1982
   * J. Postel, "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 821, 1982

MIME is specified in the following RFCs.

   * N. Freed and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
     Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies",
     RFC 2045, 1996.
   * N. Freed and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
     Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types" RFC 2046, 1996.
   * K. Moore, "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part
     Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text", RFC 2047,
     1996.
   * N. Freed, J. Klensin and J. Postel, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
     Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures", RFC 2048,
     1996.
   * N. Freed and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
     Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples",
     RFC 2049, 1996.

You can find the format and distribution protocol of NetNews in the
following RFCs.

   * M. Horton and R. Adams, "Standard for interchange of USENET
     messages", RFC 1036, 1987.
   * B. Kantor and P. Lapsley, "Network News Transfer Protocol: A
     Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News", RFC
     977, 1986.

The following document contains concise yet comprehensive explanations
about PGP.

   * PGP: Petty Good Privacy, Simson Garfinkel, O'Reilly & Associates,
     Inc, 1995.

For details of an integration of PGP and MIME, please refer to:

   * J. Galvin, S. Murphy, S. Crocker and N. Freed, "Security
     Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted",
     RFC 1847, 1995.
   * M. Elkins, "MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)", RFC
     2015, 1996.

The following paper reports the research concerned with PGP/MIME.

   * Kazuhiko Yamamoto, "An Integration of PGP and MIME", in
     proceedings of Symposium on Network and Distributed System
     Security, pp 17 - 24, 1996.