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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 general goal of the Area is to define the protocols to create an
- interoperable multimedia distributed computing environment for the
- Internet. A lot of attention at the San Diego meeting was directed
- toward the creation of workstation based conferencing. There were
- demonstrations of how video and audio could be carried between
- workstations over the Internet today. The Teleconferencing Architecture
- BOF discussed what is necessary to create a multi-workstation multimedia
- conference environment. With the greater international interest in the
- IETF there is a desire to be able to extend the ``face-to-face''
- meetings over the network around the world.
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- Extensions to FTP BOF (FTPEXT)
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- The FTP Extensions BOF was to determine if there is sufficient interest
- to work on the definition of new extensions to FTP. There were many
- ideas were discussed, in particular the passing of file attributes with
- the transfer. Jordan Brown (Quarterdeck) agreed to Chair a new Working
- Group to continue the work.
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- Internet Mail Extensions Working Group (SMTPEXT)
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- The Working Group did the final review of the document that extends SMTP
- to allow the transport of 8-bit characters and provides some additional
- capabilities to improve efficiency, especially when very large files are
- being transmitted. After final editing the Working Group will submit
- the document to be a Proposed Standard.
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- Network FAX Working Group (NETFAX)
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- The Working Group finished work on the image format to be used for
- transporting FAX on the Internet. The Document has been submitted for
- approval as a Proposed Standard. This completes the chartered work and
- the Working Group will go dormant.
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- Network News Transport Protocol Working Group (NNTP)
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- The Working Group met three times in San Diego to walk through the
- existing NNTP v2 draft. After final editing changes the document will
- be submitted to be a Proposed Standard. The Working Group will go on to
- look at a possible News Reader Protocol.
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- Teleconferencing Architecture BOF (TELARCH)
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- The BOF explored how a Working Group could define an overall
- architecture to cover all aspects of remote conferencing. This included
- things such as session management and groupware. Separate working
- groups may be generated to work on specific protocols specified by the
- architecture. Jack Drescher (MCNC) and Ari Ollikainen (LLNL) will
- co-Chair the new Working Group.
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- TELNET Working Group (TELNET)
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- The TELNET Working Group made further progress on authentication and
- decided that the document should be put forth as an Experimental
- Protocol. Dave Borman presented an extension to remote flow control
- that the group reviewed and will be submitted to be a Proposed Standard.
- The Working Group reviewed the Environment Option and will put it
- forward to become a Proposed Standard.
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