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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 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Attendees
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- 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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