Dan Wing | 3 May 1999 07:15
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RE: MDNs: "a blast from the past"

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:04 -0500, FREE-FAX New York wrote:

> If you want to send IFaxes via email, get something that's designed to
> do the job.

I can't control the software installed by the readers of the
ietf-fax <at> imc.org mailing list -- which is how I received my Blast
>From the Past.

-Dan Wing

Larry Masinter | 3 May 1999 17:32
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RE: Multipart voice-message, fax-message, etc


> Some time ago, there was some discussion about how to proceed with
> identification of primary message content.  Some have suggested that
> alternatives to those indicated in <draft-ema-vpim-um-01.txt> should be
> considered.

I thought that people were leaning toward just adding a different
content-disposition inside some parts of multipart that indicated
that some parts were optional, and then noting that MDNs for multiparts
shouldn't note that the message was "read" unless all of the parts
were "read".

> I am wondering if these discussions have been progressing at all behind the
> scenes.

Or just in a different scene.

> There is one Internet fax related proposal on the table, and another
> waiting in the wings, for dealing with message-related issues that are
> dependent on the direction taken for the message primary content proposal,
> so I would be very keen to hear how this is progressing.

I dislike the proposal in draft-ema-vpim-um-01.txt, since it defines
the "primary type" by the media type rather than just noting which
parts of a multipart are critical. I also think it's important to note
that often the desire is to confirm processability rather than actual
'read' status.

I also disagree with the characterization:

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Graham Klyne | 4 May 1999 18:30

RE: Multipart voice-message, fax-message, etc

At 08:32 03/05/99 PDT, Larry Masinter wrote:

>> There is one Internet fax related proposal on the table, and another
>> waiting in the wings, for dealing with message-related issues that are
>> dependent on the direction taken for the message primary content proposal,
>> so I would be very keen to hear how this is progressing.
>
>I dislike the proposal in draft-ema-vpim-um-01.txt, since it defines
>the "primary type" by the media type rather than just noting which
>parts of a multipart are critical. I also think it's important to note
>that often the desire is to confirm processability rather than actual
>'read' status.

I understood there to be two purposes to that proposal:

(a) to indicate the primary media type for dispatching purposes (e.g. to
prefer presentation via telephone handset or computer terminal).

(b) to indicate the critical parts of the message.

I also see a third, and less obvious, value in the proposal:

(c) a framework that can indicate the presence of message-related semantics
as opposed to an arbitrary data resource.  The value of this aspect is not
clear, but an example that suggests possible utility is the form of Mike
Ruhl's cover page proposal.

>I also disagree with the characterization:
>
>	Recently, email 
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Yahoo! Clubs | 7 May 1999 00:41
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James Rafferty | 7 May 1999 18:21
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[Fax]WG Last Call for Full Addressing draft

This is the Working Group last call notice for the following draft:       

>Title : GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services 
>Author(s) : C. Allocchio 
>Filename : draft-ietf-fax-fulladdr-06.txt 
>Pages : 23 
>Date : 26-Apr-99 
>
>The possible elements composing a 'Global Switched Telephone Network 
>(GSTN) address in e-mail' (formerly known also as Public Switched 
>Telephone Network - PSTN) can vary from a minimum number up to a 
>really large and complex collection: the minimal format and general 
>address syntax are defined in [1], together with the syntax to define 
>additional address elements.
>
>A URL for this Internet-Draft is: 
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-fax-fulladdr-06.txt

This document has been under review in the WG and in other communities
interested in telephony address elements during the past year.    At our
last IETF meeting, it was felt that the document was stable, excepting the
need to finalize the IANA considerations and registrations.      

The main revision since the last IETF meeting has been to add an IANA
registration section for various GSTN address elements as they will appear
on the left side of email address.    

I am also ccing the VPIM list, since they are working on documents which
reference this draft.   

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James Rafferty | 7 May 1999 18:17
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[Fax] Amendment 1 to ITU T.37 Not Approved

Folks,   

This is a followup to my report on the ITU-T Study Group 8 meeting that was
held in March and April.   

At that time, the final status of the proposed Amendment 1 to ITU-T T.37
was on hold, pending a 4 week review period by two countries, the United
States and Germany.    The proposed amendment adds text to T.37 which
defines the "Full Mode" for store and forward Internet fax, via reference
to the new IETF Internet fax RFCs (RFC 2530-2532) and some older RFCs (for
DSN, MDN and ESMTP).   

An ITU "decision" on a document requires unanimous consent for approval.
As it turns out, after a review conducted during this 4 week period,
Germany has voted No.    The US vote is a conditional Yes (requesting that
text be added to T.37 clarifying that embedded references in IETF RFCs
listed as "Work In Progress" are not normative).   So, the net result of
this review process is that the amendment 1 to T.37 does not pass at this
time.  

Per my understanding, the next SG8 meeting at which the amendment could be
approved (with minor corrections as applicable), is to be held early next
year.    

In the remainder of this note, I will offer my perspective on what happened
and why, and also discuss where the IETF Fax WG and the ITU Q4 can go from
here to complete this approval process.   

I personally believe that this result is unfortunate for the marketplace,
since a joint IETF and ITU endorsement of new standard approaches carries
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James Rafferty | 20 May 1999 00:43

TIFF-FX clarification

To all -

A question came up on the TIFF-FX specification, RFC 2301 during the Fax
Connect II testing today.   

In section 2.2.2, there is text under the definition of fill order that
says that all TIFF readers must be able to read both bit orders.   

However, Profile S only requires support for the LSB first bit order (value
=2 ) and this is stated in two places within that section (3) of RFC 2301.

The agreement reached in the WG was that Profile S does have some
constraints that the other profiles do not have, including this restriction
of a single permitted bit order.   

This will require a correction to the text of the updated draft for the RFC
(draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-00.txt

Regards, 

James

*------------------------------------------------*
James Rafferty			
President, Human Communications LLC	
12 Kevin Drive			
Danbury, CT  06811-2901		
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Voice/Fax:  +1-203-746-4367
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Buckley, Robert R | 20 May 1999 07:10
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RE: TIFF-FX clarification

James,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will make the appropriate
changes to the text of the TIFF-FX spec (draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-00.txt).

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: James Rafferty [mailto:jrafferty <at> worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 6:43 PM
To: Ietf-Fax
Cc: Dennis Venable; Glenn Parsons; Lloyd McIntyre; Buckley,Rob R; Steve
Zilles
Subject: TIFF-FX clarification

To all -

A question came up on the TIFF-FX specification, RFC 2301 during the Fax
Connect II testing today.   

In section 2.2.2, there is text under the definition of fill order that
says that all TIFF readers must be able to read both bit orders.   

However, Profile S only requires support for the LSB first bit order (value
=2 ) and this is stated in two places within that section (3) of RFC 2301.

The agreement reached in the WG was that Profile S does have some
constraints that the other profiles do not have, including this restriction
of a single permitted bit order.   

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SMS specifications


Hallo all,
after reading both drafts I would suggest to integrate them in one single 
document and proceed with its submission to the appropriate discussion 
groups.

In particular, draft-antti-sms-service-selector-00.txt is more detailed 
as it is based on the full addressing specification.

During the docs merging, you could also all sign the resultant doc.

Regards
Claudio Allocchio

Nikolaos Tsarmpopoulos | 21 May 1999 18:32
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Re: SMS specifications


Hello all,

This is exactly the reason why I have not submitted the newer version of the
"Minimal SMS address format in Internet Mail", which covers those issues. We
have already agreed with Antti on the preparation of a single specification
document.

Regards,
Nikolaos

>
> Hallo all,
> after reading both drafts I would suggest to integrate them in one single
> document and proceed with its submission to the appropriate discussion
> groups.
>
> In particular, draft-antti-sms-service-selector-00.txt is more detailed
> as it is based on the full addressing specification.
>
> During the docs merging, you could also all sign the resultant doc.
>
> Regards
> Claudio Allocchio


Gmane