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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Mark Needleman/U California
NETFAX Minutes
The Netfax Working Group met at the IETF meeting in Santa Fe. The main
goal of the meeting was to go over the Internet Draft on a file format
for transferring bitmapped images in the Internet.
o The Internet Draft was discussed and revised at the meeting. The
proposed changes plus others that had been discussed on the list
will be incorporated into the document and it will be put out for a
short review again as an internet draft.
o Consensus was reached at the meeting that, provided there are no
technical objections to the new version of the document, after the
review period of a couple of weeks end, the document will be
progressed to proposed RFC status
o A discussion was held as to what should be the future work of the
group, if anything, now that the document on file formats was
nearing completion. It was brought up that at earlier meetings
there had never been any consensus achieved on how to go forward on
any of the other ideas the group had discussed and that maybe the
group should not attempt to pursue anything further for awhile
until everyone had a cleared idea of what work was needed and how
to do it. However it was decided that the group should at least
make one more attempt to define some of the issues and problems in
things like addressing and routing that had been discussed at
previous meetings. Dan Newman agreed to take some work he had
previously posted to the list on this and expand it and repost it.
It is hoped that this will become the basis for something that
could be turned into an RFC discussing these issues and proposing
solutions.
o A discussion was held on building interoperable implementations
based on the file format now that the document has become
standardized. Mark Needleman mentioned that the University of
California under the auspices of the Coalition for Networked
Information will move forward with plans to get organizations that
have already done work in the area of networked fax to convert
their projects to the standard file format and to get those
projects to interoperate with each other. This will serve both to
test out the proposed RFC and will also provide the requisite
number of implementations that are required before a document can
become a full RFC. Other participants in the meeting also indicated
they would begin working on building implementations.
o Some discussion was held on the issue of testing and building
conformance suites. It was agreed that some test files would be
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made available that could be used to test an implementation. Mark
Needleman and Carl Malamud agreed to discuss among themselves where
to locate these files. The idea being that they would either
reside on stubbs.ucop.edu or on a host that Carl has access to.
Attendees
Jeffrey Buffum buffum@vos.stratus.com
Ned Freed ned@innosoft.com
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu
Scott Kaplan
Neil Katin katin@eng.sun.com
Jim Knowles jknowles@trident.arc.nasa.gov
Peter Liebscher plieb@sura.net
Carl Malamud carl@malamud.com
Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
Daniel Newman dan@innosoft.com
Jon Postel postel@isi.edu
Daisy Shen daisy@watson.ibm.com
Andrew Veitch aveitch@bbn.com
William Yundt gd.why@forsythe.stanford.edu
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