Hi folks,
FYI.
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald
High North Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dhc at dcrocker.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:35 PM
To: ietf-fax at imc.org
Subject: CONPERM/CONNEG
Folks,
Please take a look at the new CONNEG revision:
> Title : SMTP Service Extension for Fax Content
Negotiation
> Author(s) : K. Toyoda, D. Crocker
> Filename : draft-ietf-fax-esmtp-conneg-04.txt
> Pages : 0
> Date : 2003-2-5
>> A message originator sometimes wishes to send content that is in a
> form the recipient cannot process. In order for the recipient to
> process the content, the content must be converted to a related form,
> with the same or with restricted information, such as changing from
> color to black and white. In a store-and-forward environment, it can
> be convenient to have this conversion performed by an intermediary.
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-fax-esmtp-conneg-04.txt
The changes are extensive, to add mechanisms for authorization and
accountability.
Note that it would not be difficult to expand the specification to cover
content other than fax. However the current draft is limited to fax.
The primary reason is because there is experience merging sender and
recipient fax capabilities. There is far less experience with other
types of capabilities. If we get the service extension working for fax,
it will be possible to come back, later, and add other capability
profiles.
However there is an important question about the complexity of
implementing this specification. Anyone who thinks they might build
this should give the group some comments about the feasibility of this
specification.
d/
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Dave <mailto:dhc at dcrocker.net>
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