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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Mark Needleman/U California
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- NETFAX Minutes
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- The meeting began at 1:30 PM on December 5, 1990 and was Chaired
- by Mark Needleman.
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- Mark Needleman brought up the issue of whether or not the group should
- continue to meet in that not very much work had been done since the last
- meeting and there was some confusion as to what problems the group was
- really trying to solve. This lead to a discussion of exactly what
- problems needed to be addressed. The group then determined that there
- were two basic problems. The rest of the meeting focused on those
- problems and possible solutions for them. The two problems addressed
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- o Taking ASCII text data and converting it to fax image for
- transmission to a destination fax machine.
- o Using the Internet as a mechanism for moving fax and other type
- image data around for delivery either directly to a users
- workstation or to a destination fax machine directly on the network
- or through a server to an output fax machine.
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- A discussion was held as to possible ways of solving these problems such
- as using X.400 or posibly defining a new protocol. Consensus was a
- protocol like SMTP would work fine except for two major limitations in
- SMTP - 7 bit ASCII usage and file size limitations.
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- The group discussed the possibility of building a new protocol based on
- SMTP that would have all of the features of SMTP and would remove these
- limitations. It would also add extentions to the SMTP headers to convey
- information needed for fax transmission such as phone numbers and
- routing and accounting information.
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- o A discussion was also held on possible additions to the Domain Name
- System for adding records that would facilitate finding out
- locations of fax servers. Consensus was that this needed more
- research.
- o Discussion was also held as to possible implications of the work
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- being done by the newly formed 8 bit SMTP Working Group and what
- that would mean to us. The feeling was that there was a
- possibility that the work of this group might solve the problems we
- saw in SMTP so that a new protocol would not be needed and that we
- should coordinate with them to get our input into their work and to
- make sure our needs were addressed. The feeling was that this
- would allow SMTP to provide a general purpose solution for all of
- types of data, not just fax.
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- Action Items:
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- o Develop detailed specification for extentions to SMTP needed to use
- protocol for fax transmission.
- o Develop detailed specifications for working of fax server.
- o Establish coordination with 8 bit SMTP Working Group.
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- Attendees
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- Cyrus Chow cchow@orion.arc.nasa.gov
- Tom Easterday tom@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu
- Steven Hunter hunter@es.net
- Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu
- E. Paul Love Jr. loveep@sdsc.edu
- Clifford Lynch lynch@postgres.berkeley.edu
- Carl Malamud carl@malamud.com
- Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
- Michael Roberts roberts@educom.edu
- Michael St. Johns stjohns@umd5.umd.edu
- Jesse Walker walker@eider.enet@decpa.dec.com
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