The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996
C. Weider, Cecilia M. Preston, K. Simonsen, Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Randall J. Atkinson, Mark R. Crispin, P. Svanberg · 1997
This report details the conclusions of an IAB-sponsored invitational workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996, to discuss the use of character sets on the Internet. It motivates the need to have character set handling in Internet protocols which transmit text, provides a conceptual framework for specifying character sets, recommends the use of MIME tagging for transmitted text, recommends a default character set *without* stating that there is no need for other character sets, and makes a series of recommendations to the IAB, IANA, and the IESG for furthering the integration of the character set framework into text transmission protocols.