Internet Fax (fax)

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In addition to this official charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at:

       http://www.imc.org/ietf-fax -- Additional FAX WG Page
NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 60th IETF Meeting in San Diego, CA USA. It may now be out-of-date.

Last Modified: 2004-03-15

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>
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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:
  • - draft-ietf-fax-service-v2-05.txt
  • - draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-14.txt
  • - draft-ietf-fax-ffpim-06.txt
  • - draft-ietf-fax-gateway-protocol-10.txt
  • - draft-ietf-fax-gateway-options-06.txt
  • - draft-ietf-fax-esmtp-conneg-10.txt
  • - draft-ietf-fax-faxservice-enum-03.txt
  • - draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-reg-v2-01.txt
    • Request For Comments:
    RFCStatusTitle
    RFC2301 PS File Format for Internet Fax
    RFC2302 PS Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration
    RFC2303 PS Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail
    RFC2304 PS Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail
    RFC2305 PS A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail
    RFC2306 I Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile
    RFC2542 I Terminology and Goals for Internet Fax
    RFC2530 PS Indicating Supported Media Features Using Extensions to DSN and MDN
    RFC2531 PS Content feature schema for Internet fax
    RFC2532 PS Extended Facsimile Using Internet Mail
    RFC2846 PS GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services
    RFC2879 PS Content feature schema for Internet fax
    RFC2880 I Internet fax T.30 Feature Mapping
    RFC3191 DS Minimal GSTN address format in Internet Mail
    RFC3192 DS Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail
    RFC3297 PS Content Negotiation for Internet Messaging Services
    RFC3249 I Implementers Guide for Facsimile Using Internet Mail
    RFC3250 PS Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended (TIFF-FX) -image/tiff-fx MIME Sub-type Registration
    RFC3302 PS Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration

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