CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Mark Needleman/U California NETFAX Minutes The Netfax Working Group met at the IETF meeting in Santa Fe. The main goal of the meeting was to go over the Internet Draft on a file format for transferring bitmapped images in the Internet. o The Internet Draft was discussed and revised at the meeting. The proposed changes plus others that had been discussed on the list will be incorporated into the document and it will be put out for a short review again as an internet draft. o Consensus was reached at the meeting that, provided there are no technical objections to the new version of the document, after the review period of a couple of weeks end, the document will be progressed to proposed RFC status o A discussion was held as to what should be the future work of the group, if anything, now that the document on file formats was nearing completion. It was brought up that at earlier meetings there had never been any consensus achieved on how to go forward on any of the other ideas the group had discussed and that maybe the group should not attempt to pursue anything further for awhile until everyone had a cleared idea of what work was needed and how to do it. However it was decided that the group should at least make one more attempt to define some of the issues and problems in things like addressing and routing that had been discussed at previous meetings. Dan Newman agreed to take some work he had previously posted to the list on this and expand it and repost it. It is hoped that this will become the basis for something that could be turned into an RFC discussing these issues and proposing solutions. o A discussion was held on building interoperable implementations based on the file format now that the document has become standardized. Mark Needleman mentioned that the University of California under the auspices of the Coalition for Networked Information will move forward with plans to get organizations that have already done work in the area of networked fax to convert their projects to the standard file format and to get those projects to interoperate with each other. This will serve both to test out the proposed RFC and will also provide the requisite number of implementations that are required before a document can become a full RFC. Other participants in the meeting also indicated they would begin working on building implementations. o Some discussion was held on the issue of testing and building conformance suites. It was agreed that some test files would be 1 made available that could be used to test an implementation. Mark Needleman and Carl Malamud agreed to discuss among themselves where to locate these files. The idea being that they would either reside on stubbs.ucop.edu or on a host that Carl has access to. Attendees Jeffrey Buffum buffum@vos.stratus.com Ned Freed ned@innosoft.com Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu Scott Kaplan Neil Katin katin@eng.sun.com Jim Knowles jknowles@trident.arc.nasa.gov Peter Liebscher plieb@sura.net Carl Malamud carl@malamud.com Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu Daniel Newman dan@innosoft.com Jon Postel postel@isi.edu Daisy Shen daisy@watson.ibm.com Andrew Veitch aveitch@bbn.com William Yundt gd.why@forsythe.stanford.edu 2