CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Mark Needleman/U California NETFAX Minutes The Netfax Working Group met on August 1, 1991 at the IETF meeting in Atlanta. The primary goal of the meeting was to attempt to get consensus on the draft paper written by ISI on a common image file format for fax in the internet making use of TIFF encoding. Alan Katz of ISI gave a short presentation about the paper, highlighting its major points. Discussion was then held. Consensus was achieved among those present that this was the proper way to go in the short-run with the intention of more closely examining the possibility of using ODA as it became more prevalent in the internet. Mark Needleman and Alan Katz agreed to work together to turn the draft paper into a format suitable to being published as an Internet Draft. It will then be posted to the NETFAX mailing list for comment after which the process will be started to get it into an Internet Draft so that the wider community can comment on it. Clifford Lynch agreed, after the draft was revised to to make sure it was distributed to organizations involved in library projects transfering images over the internet and to try to get as many of these groups as possible to implement it for interoperability testing. A discussion was then held on defining mechanisms for transporting fax in the internet and making use of the work of the Internet Message Extensions Working Group. Ned Freed gave a short presentation on the paper that group had produced. Alan Katz agreed to come up with a name for a tiff netfax body content type header. He will do this within two weeks so that it can be incorporated into the SMTP Extensions paper. Otherwise it will need to become a separate RFC as an add-on to that document. Carl Malamud lead a discussion on addressing fax in the internet and what fax addresses should look like. Carl agreed to put together for the mailing list a proposal that could then be discussed and become the basis for a proposed RFC on the subject. Ned Freed also agreed to post the attributes that Innosoft uses to the list. Alan Katz agreed to look at the possibility of defining body-type parts for the cover page and what elements would be required. This could then become another body-type as defined by the SMTP Extensions Working Group. Attendees Philip Budne phil@shiva.com John Cook cook@chipcom.com Tom Easterday tom@cic.net 1 Ned Freed ned@innosoft.com Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu P. Allen Jensen allen@audfax.audiofax.com Alan Katz katz@isi.edu Jim Knowles jknowles@trident.arc.nasa.gov Jack Liu liu@koala.enet.dec.com Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa Carl Malamud carl@malamud.com Louis Mamakos louie@ni.umd.edu Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu William Nowicki nowicki@legato.com Geir Pedersen geir.pedersen@use.uio.no Jon Postel postel@isi.edu 2