This document specifies the Distributed Authoring Protocol, a set of headers and methods which extend the Hypertext Transfer Protocol to provide capabilities for overwrite prevention (locking), properties, and namespace management.

Describes the ISO-2022-JP encoding used in electronic mail and network news messages in several Japanese networks. It was first specified by and used in JUNET. The encoding is now also widely used in Japanese IP communities.

Describes the ISO-2022-JP-1 encoding scheme, which is used in electronic mail, and network news. Also provides a listing of the Japanese Character Set that can be used in this encoding scheme.

Describes the ISO-2022-KR encoding method being used to represent Korean characters in both header and body part of the Internet mail messages.

Describes ISO-2022-CN and ISO-2022-CN-EXT encoding for transporting Chinese characters in Internet services such as electronic mail, network news, telnet and the World Wide Web. It also discusses the common CN-GB, CN-Big5 and ISO-10646 encodings.

Describes the HZ-GB-2312 encoding, the 7-bit Chinese character encoding designed for use in electronic mail and network news messages over the Internet.

Provides guidance and recommendations to developers building X.509 public-key certification paths within their applications.

The SPKI document gives the theory behind SPKI certificates and ACLs without going into technical detail about those structures or their uses.

Summary of established requirements for the IETF-SPKI working group.

The PKIX document specifies a protocol useful in determining the current status of a digital certificate without requiring CRLs.