CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Mark Needleman/U California

NETFAX Minutes


   o Meeting convened 9:30 AM on 8/1/90 chaired by Mark Needleman
   o Attendees briefly introduced themselves and explained their
     interests.
   o University of California and Ohio State University gave short
     presentations on work in progress or planned.
   o Draft charter for group accepted by default in that no one raised
     any objections to it.
   o There was a discussion of what transfer formats needed to be
     supported.  The consensus was that there did need to be a protocol
     developed to support transmission of fax across the internet.  At
     the same time support for fax using RFC822 and X.400 mail was
     needed.  There was a sense that this 2nd issue might only need to
     be a reiteration of what is already stated in RFC1154(?)
   o An attempt was made to define a list of requirements for the new
     fax transmission protocol.  These were:

      -  Protocol should have mechanisms for determining destination
         node and route to destination node.
      -  Protocol should work with both G3 and G4
      -  There should be translation functions for standard document
         formats including, at minimum, ascii to fax and postscript to
         fax
      -  The protocol should support sending fax machine to machine via
         internet, computer system to fax machine via internet, and fax
         machine to computer system via internet
      -  Protocol should support receipt information to sendors.
      -  Protocol should support explosion to multiple destinations.
      -  Protocol should provide interfaces to other standard fax
         services.

   o Action items from meeting:

      -  Marshall Rose (mrose@psi.com) will draft first cut at a
         proposed architecture based on requirements listed.
      -  Karl Auerbach (karl@asylum.sf.ca.us) will draft description of
         what his proposed fax interface to mail looks like.
      -  University of California and Ohio State University will write
         and distribute short descriptions of the projects they have
         underway or planned.


Attendees


Philip Budne             phil@shiva.com

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Jeffrey Case             case@utkux1.utk.edu
Andrew Cherenson         arc@sgi.com
John Cook                cook@chipcom.com
James Davin              jrd@ptt.lcs.mit.edu
Alf Farnham              carolf@mcescher.unl.edu
Michael Fidler           ts0026@ohstvma.ircc.ohio-state.edu
Robert Gilligan          gilligan@sun.com
Russell Hobby            rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Ajay Kachrani            kachrani%regent.dec@decwrl.dec.com
Jim Knowles              jknowles@trident.arc.nasa.gov
Sam Lam
Clifford Lynch           lynch@postgres.berkeley.edu
Stuart Lynne             sl@wimsey.bc.ca
Donald Morris            morris@ucar.edu
Mark Needleman           mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
Cecilia Preston          ceal@asylum.sf.ca.us
Marshall Rose            mrose@psi.com
Gregory Vaudreuil        gvaudre@nri.reston.va.us



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