Network Fax (netfax)
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Charter
Last Modified: 06/05/2000
Current Status: Concluded Working Group
Chair(s):
Mark Needleman <mark.needleman@ucop.edu>
Applications Area Director(s):
Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
Patrik Faltstrom <paf@cisco.com>
Applications Area Advisor:
Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion:netfax@stubbs.ucop.edu
To Subscribe: netfax-request@stubbs.ucop.edu
Archive: /pub/netfax@stubbs.ucop.edu
Description of Working Group:
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.
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.
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.
It is also hoped that some fax vendors, as well as the
networking community and fax gateway developers, will be brought into
the effort.
Goals and Milestones:
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.
Done Continue work on definition of issues and protocols. Work
to be conducted on mailing list.
Done First draft of RFC to be completed. To be discussed at IETF
meeting and revised as necessary.
Done Continue revisions based on comments received and submit to
IESG for publication as RFC.
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.
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC1314 PS APR 92 A File Format for the Exchange of Images in the
Internet