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- Applications Area
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- Director(s):
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- o Russ Hobby: rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
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- Area Summary reported by Russ Hobby/UCDavis
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- Area Overview
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- The Applications Area of the IETF is moving to bring multimedia
- capabilities to the Internet. One Working Group in particular, The
- Internet Message Format Extensions Working Group (822ext), has made
- great strides in this direction. This Working Group is finishing the
- specifications to allow email to have multiple parts to the message
- where each part may be text, image, audio, video or other types of
- information to be presented to the end user. The Network News Transport
- Protocol Working Group (nntp) is working closely with the new message
- format to bring these capabilities to the network news world. The
- Teleconferencing BOF explored the idea of desktop video conferencing.
- The general goal of the area is to define the protocols to create an
- interoperable multimedia distributed computing environment for the
- Internet.
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- Working Groups Summary
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- o Internet Message Format Extensions (822ext)
- The Working Group is finishing the document on multi-part mail
- messages that will replace RFC 822, and plans to submit the
- document as a Proposed Standard in early January. This will
- complete the work of the group.
- o Internet Mail Extensions (smtpext)
- The Working Group has a new Chair, John Klensin (MIT). The group
- had to decide if progress could be made towards a method to allow
- eight bit characters in SMTP. The group decided to define a means
- for negotiating the transport of eight bit characters. It was
- thought that the method could also be useful for negotiation of
- other items, such as allowed message size.
- o Network News Transport Protocol (nntp)
- This Working Group did not meet in Santa Fe, but has been making
- good progress on the mail list and has a document about ready to be
- issued as an Internet Draft.
- o Automated Internet Mailing List Services (list)
- Unfortunately the Chair of this Working Group, David Lippke, had to
- resign due to a reassignment of work duties. The group will be on
- hold until a new Chair is found.
- o Network FAX (netfax)
- The Working Group finished work on the image format to be used for
- transporting FAX on the Internet. The Document will be available
- as an Internet Draft soon.
- o Network Database (netdata)
- The Working Group continued work on the definition of SQL
- transactions over TCP/IP networks. The group is small and there
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- needs to be involvement from other SQL implementors.
- o TELNET (telnet)
- The Working Group made further progress on authentication and
- encryption for TELNET sessions. It was decided that authentication
- and encryption need to be closely tied together in operation.
- o Teleconferencing BOF (teleconf)
- At this BOF several individuals presented work being done on
- teleconferencing over the Internet. After the presentations there
- was discussion on how the problem can be broken in work that can be
- done by various working groups. One Working Group was created to
- define methods for realtime transport of audio and video.
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