Internet Fax (fax)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2004-03-15
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
Claudio Allocchio <Claudio.Allocchio@garr.it>
Hiroshi Tamura <tamura@toda.ricoh.co.jp>
Applications Area Director(s):
Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>
Scott Hollenbeck <sah@428cobrajet.net>
Applications Area Advisor:
Scott Hollenbeck <sah@428cobrajet.net>
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion:ietf-fax@imc.org
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Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-fax/
Description of Working Group:
Previous IETF efforts developed specifications for simple and extended
Internet mail-based facsimile service profiles, tailored to interwork
with the world of T.30 facsimile. This extension effort will take care
of differential routing between classic Internet mail and timely
deliveries, and consider with particular regard universal messaging
issues and its relation with Internet mail.
The WG will produce a final increment of specification for supporting
a "full" equivalence of T.30 service over Internet mail. Technical work
for this effort includes timely delivery, [image] feature
selection/negotiation, document privacy, and integrated
specification of Full-mode Facsimile Profile of Internet Mail (FFPIM).
For interconnecting fax services over the dial-up telephone network and
carriage of facsimile message data over the Internet, two types of
interface systems are required:
o Internet/Dial-up Fax gateway, moving data from the Internet to
classic or Internet-aware dial-up fax products and services
o Dial-up/Internet Fax gateway, moving data from classic or
Internet-aware dial-up fax products and services to the Internet
The working group will also consider the requirements for gatewaying
Internet Mail (as profiled for facsimile Simple, Extended modes and
FFPIM) with T.30 Facsimile.
The working group will specifically take note of quality of service
issues and might decide to produce an Implementer's Guide.
T.30 facsimile carries expectations of message privacy, so that FFPIM
must specify a basic facility via the Internet. Although T.30 does not
provide document integrity, users frequently believe that it does.
Consequently the Faxext working group will also seek specification of a
basic authentication facility over the Internet.
T.30 facsimile provides for receiver capability identification to the
sender, allowing a sender to provide the "best" fax image the receiver
can handle. The Faxext working group will consider mechanisms to
provide
similar functionality for fax images transferred by e-mail.
Additional areas of discussion will be: Annotated fax messages and
universal messaging issues as they relate to FFPIM, as well as schema
and TIFF extensions required to support the new JBIG-2 (T.88)
compression method.
The working group will continue the excellent pattern of coordinating
activities with other facsimile-related standards bodies, in particular
the ITU, VPIM and other WGs, and with using work from related IETF
efforts.
Goals and Milestones:
Done Submit Internet-Draft of terminology document
Done Submit Internet-Draft of data specifications
Done Submit Internet-Draft of messaging-related specification
Done Submit Internet-Draft of operational constraints document
Done Submit terminology document to IESG for publication
Done Submit data specifications to IESG for consideration as a
standards track document
Done Submit messaging-related specification to IESG for
consideration as a standards track document
Done Submit operational constraints document to IESG for publication
as an Informational document
Done Submit final draft for FFPIM to IESG for publication
Done Submit final draft of gateway requirements
Nov 01 Submit final draft of TIFF-fx extensions
Nov 01 Submit final draft of schema for TIFF-fx extensions
Internet-Drafts:
Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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Oct 99 Dec 04 <draft-ietf-fax-ffpim-08.txt>
Full-mode Fax Profile for Internet Mail: FFPIM
Jul 00 Feb 05 <draft-ietf-fax-gateway-protocol-13.txt>
Internet FAX Gateway Requirements
Nov 00 Feb 05 <draft-ietf-fax-gateway-options-08.txt>
Guideline of optional services for Internet FAX Gateway
Jun 01 Jan 05 <draft-ietf-fax-esmtp-conneg-13.txt>
SMTP and MIME Extensions For Content Conversion
Feb 03 Jun 04 <draft-ietf-fax-faxservice-enum-03.txt>
IFAX service of ENUM
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC2301 PS Mar 98 File Format for Internet Fax
RFC2302 PS Mar 98 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type
Registration
RFC2303 PS Mar 98 Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail
RFC2304 PS Mar 98 Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail
RFC2305 PS Mar 98 A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail
RFC2306 I Mar 98 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile
RFC2542 I Mar 99 Terminology and Goals for Internet Fax
RFC2530 PS Mar 99 Indicating Supported Media Features Using Extensions to
DSN and MDN
RFC2531 PS Mar 99 Content feature schema for Internet fax
RFC2532 PS Mar 99 Extended Facsimile Using Internet Mail
RFC2846 PS Jun 00 GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services
RFC2879 PS Aug 00 Content feature schema for Internet fax
RFC2880 I Aug 00 Internet fax T.30 Feature Mapping
RFC3191 DS Nov 01 Minimal GSTN address format in Internet Mail
RFC3192 DS Nov 01 Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail
RFC3297 PS Jul 02 Content Negotiation for Internet Messaging Services
RFC3249 I Sep 02 Implementers Guide for Facsimile Using Internet Mail
RFC3250 PS Sep 02 Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended (TIFF-FX)
-image/tiff-fx MIME Sub-type Registration
RFC3302 PS Sep 02 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type
Registration
RFC3965Standard Dec 04 A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail
RFC3949Standard Feb 05 File Format for Internet Fax
RFC3950Standard Feb 05 Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended (TIFF-FX) -
image/tiff-fx MIME Sub-type Registration