Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email

This specification has been revised 3 times since RFC 4952 (2007). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 4952 (2007)
  2. RFC 5504 (2009)
  3. RFC 5825 (2010)
  4. RFC 6530 (2012)

Current version — implement against this

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 6530 (February 2012).