I asked the Fax group members to indicate to us where they thought the
overlap might be. Today the following reply from Dave Crocker, one of the
proposed co-chairs of IETF Fax and an Internet veteran, was posted. I
forward it for your information. I am not planning to start cross-posting
messages in general; if you want to get involved in the IETF Fax
discussions, please subscribe to that DL directly.
Carl-Uno
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>Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:45:49 PST
>To: Carl-Uno Manros <cmanros@cp10.es.xerox.com>
>From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
>Subject: Re: PWG IPP charter
>Cc: Raymond Lutz <raylutz@cognisys.com>, ietf-fax@imc.org
>
>At 5:02 PM -0800 11/11/96, Carl-Uno Manros wrote:
>>I am interested in finding out what you and others in the IETF Fax group
>>think are the potentially overlapping areas between the two projects.
>
> my own opinion is that there is very substantial overlap... eventually.
>
> but very little overlap now, especially for the fax wg's initial
>effort.
>
> Content formats will probably have no overlap initially.
>
> Transport/application protocol will have no overlap with fax store
>and forward.
>
> Things will get a bit more interesting when the fax group starts to
>consider interactive or real-time exchange. Even then, as Larry notes,
>there are likely to be important differences.
>
>d/
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