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- Network Fax (netfax)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Mark Needleman <mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu>
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- Applications Area Director(s)
- Brewster Kahle <Brewster@wais.com>
- Erik Huizer <huizer@surfnet.nl>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:netfax@stubbs.ucop.edu
- To Subscribe: netfax-request@stubbs.ucop.edu
- Archive: /pub/netfax@stubbs.ucop.edu
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- Description of Working Group:
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- The Network Fax Working Group is chartered to explore issues
- involved with the transmission and receipt of facsimilies across TCP/IP
- networks and to develop recommended standards for facsimile
- transmission across the Internet. The Group is also intended to serve
- as a coordinating forum for people doing experimentation in this area
- to attempt to maximize the possibility for interoperability among
- network fax projects.
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- Among the issues that need to be resolved are what actual
- protocol(s) will be used to do the actual data transmission
- between hosts, architectural models for the integration of fax
- machines into the existing internet, what types of data encoding
- should be supported, how IP host address to phone number conversion
- should be done and associated issues of routing, and development of a
- gateway system that will allow existing Group 3 and Group 4 fax
- machines to operate in a network environment.
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- It is expected that the output of the Working Group will be one
- or more RFC's documenting recommended solutions to the above questions
- and possibly also describing some actual implementations. The life of
- the Working Group is expected to be 18-24 months.
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- It is also hoped that some fax vendors, as well as the
- networking community and fax gateway developers, will be brought into
- the effort.
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Review and approve Charter making any changes deemed necessary.
- Refine definition of scope of work to be accomplished and
- initial set of RFC's to be developed. Begin working on
- framework for solution.
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- Done Continue work on definition of issues and protocols.
- Work to be conducted on mailing list.
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- Done First draft of RFC to be completed. To be discussed at IETF
- meeting and revised as necessary.
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- Done Continue revisions based on comments received and submit
- to IESG for publication as RFC.
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- Mar 92 Overlapping with activities listed above may be implementations
- based on ideas and work done by the Working Group. If so revise
- RFC to include knowledge gained from such implementations.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- No Current Internet drafts.
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- Request For Comments:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
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- RFC1314 PS Apr 92 A File Format for the Exchange of Images in the
- Internet
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