Larry Masinter presented a excellent overview of this concept at the IPP WG
this week in Chicago.
Speaking as a old fax person I was seriously impressed with the
implications this work has. IMHO it deserves generous study. I really like
this!
the features and objectives of a real time Internet Fax service with the
IPP architecture.
I do not see this as competing with the existing work of the IETF-FAX WG...
I view it as complementary.
There are several areas that need looking at such as sender identification
requirements, the use of cover pages, SMTP fallback, protocol behaivor when
used as either a onramp or offramp to the PSTN etc.
This work gets even more interesting when it is combined with the goals and
objectives of the E.164 Resolution BOF. In this scenerio a IPP device URL
could be mapped to a E.164 number thus injecting complete protocol
transparency to the delivery of documents.
The possibility of producing a Informational Draft outlining this mapping
effort was discussed at the IPP WG meeting.
A gentleman offered to work on such a draft and I have been in touch with
him.. for what is worth, I am more than willing to contribute time and
effort to the work of such a draft.
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Richard Shockey
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St. Louis, MO 63119
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