   The Application/EDIFACT MIME body-part contains data as specified
for electronic data interchange by [FACT, FACV].
 
   Within EDIFACT, information is specified by:
 
   MIME type name:               Application
 
   MIME subtype name:            EDIFACT
 
   Required parameters:          none
 
   Optional parameters:          CHARSET, as defined for MIME
 
   Encoding considerations:      May need BASE64 or QUOTED-PRINTABLE
                                 transfer encoding
 
   Security considerations:      See separate section in the
                                 document.
 
   Published specification:      Contained in the following section.
 
   Rationale:                    The EDIFACT specifications are
                                 accepted standards for a class of
                                 inter-organization transactions;
                                 this permits their transmission
                                 over the Internet, via email.
 
   Contact-info:                 See Contact section, below.
 
   Detail specific to MIME-based usage:
 
        This is a generic mechanism for sending any EDIFACT
        interchange.  The object is self-defining, in terms of
        indicating which specific EDI objects are included.  Most
        EDI data is textual, but special characters such as some
        delimiters may be non-printable ASCII or some data may be
        pure binary.  For EDI objects containing such data, the MIME
        transfer mechanism may need to encode the object in Content-
        Transfer-Encoding:quoted-printable or base64.