RE: RFC 4612 - historic status

["Paul E. Jones" <paulej at packetizer.com>]

Frank,

No, it does not.  It's simply an alternative representation of the fax data.
The receiver could receive it and print it, create audio tones (if it
desired), produce a TIFF image and e-mail it, or whatever else it wished to
do.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Ellermann [mailto:nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:55 AM
> To: ietf at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: RFC 4612 - historic status
> 
> Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> >> | audio -- audio data.  "Audio" requires an audio output
> >> |          device (such as a speaker or a telephone) to
> >> |          "display" the contents.  An initial subtype
> >> |          "basic" is defined in this document.
> [...]
> > In what way does this not satisfy *exactly* the requirements
> > for the audio top-level MIME type?
> 
> The final receiver isn't supposed to "hear" a fax arriving as
> phone call, "whistling" the replies.  Seriously, does this
> media type require a modem somewhere on the receiver's side ?
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
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