Network Fax (netfax) -------------------- Charter Last Modified: 06/05/2000 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Mark Needleman Applications Area Director(s): Ned Freed Patrik Faltstrom Applications Area Advisor: Ned Freed Mailing Lists: General Discussion:netfax@stubbs.ucop.edu To Subscribe: netfax-request@stubbs.ucop.edu Archive: /pub/netfax@stubbs.ucop.edu Description of Working Group: The Network Fax Working Group is chartered to explore issues involved with the transmission and receipt of facsimilies across TCP/IP networks and to develop recommended standards for facsimile transmission across the Internet. The Group is also intended to serve as a coordinating forum for people doing experimentation in this area to attempt to maximize the possibility for interoperability among network fax projects. Among the issues that need to be resolved are what actual protocol(s) will be used to do the actual data transmission between hosts, architectural models for the integration of fax machines into the existing internet, what types of data encoding should be supported, how IP host address to phone number conversion should be done and associated issues of routing, and development of a gateway system that will allow existing Group 3 and Group 4 fax machines to operate in a network environment. It is expected that the output of the Working Group will be one or more RFC's documenting recommended solutions to the above questions and possibly also describing some actual implementations. The life of the Working Group is expected to be 18-24 months. It is also hoped that some fax vendors, as well as the networking community and fax gateway developers, will be brought into the effort. Goals and Milestones: Done Review and approve Charter making any changes deemed necessary. Refine definition of scope of work to be accomplished and initial set of RFC's to be developed. Begin working on framework for solution. Done Continue work on definition of issues and protocols. Work to be conducted on mailing list. Done First draft of RFC to be completed. To be discussed at IETF meeting and revised as necessary. Done Continue revisions based on comments received and submit to IESG for publication as RFC. MAR 92 Overlapping with activities listed above may be implementations based on ideas and work done by the Working Group. If so revise RFC to include knowledge gained from such implementations. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC1314 PS APR 92 A File Format for the Exchange of Images in the Internet