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Proposed Charter:
QUALDOCS HIGH QUALITY DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION=20
Chair(s): Richard Shockey =20
<rshockey@ix.netcom.com> [PROPOSED]
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Applications Area Director(s):
Keith Moore <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
Patrik F=E4ltstr=F6m <paf@swip.net>
Area Advisor
Keith Moore <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
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Description of Working Group:
The transmission and reception of documents rendered in their final form is
an essential global communications service.
Several protocols and services have been developed over the years to
facilitate document transmission, including the GSTN Fax service [ITU
-T.30]. Within the IETF several protocols have been developed that
facilitate document transmission, including RFC 2305 and RFC 2532 [Store
and Forward Internet Fax] and the Internet Print Protocol [IPP].
Problem Statement:
Each of these services has one or more severe limitations or restrictions
that may not be suitable for all document transmissions.
Among those limitations that could be applied to one or more of the above
services:
1. Limitations on Quality (resolution or color transmission)
2. Ability to repudiate request for receipt confirmation (MDN - DSN)
3. Lack of clear and unambiguous legal identification of sender and=
recipient
4. Lack of ability to adequately determine the success or failure of a
document transmission during processing
5. Inability to establish reliable knowledge or negotiation of recipient
capabilities
6. Inability to satisfy legal as well as general custom and practice for
document transmission technologies, as typically applied to GSTN Fax.
7. Inability to establish transaction security, authenticity and
confidentiality of document transmission
Work Group Objectives:
The purpose of the work group will be to investigate current work within
the IETF and identify protocols, procedures and policies that can satisfy
the requirements for reliable document transmission with a high degree of
fidelity and reliability.
Essential attributes for Quality Document Delivery Services include:
A. Timely Delivery
B. Transaction Security, Authenticity and Confidentiality
C. High quality output with sender control of presentation detail
D. Legal identity exchange
E. Document format selection based on confirmed capabilities of sender
and/or receiver.
F. NonRepudiable Proof of Delivery (Receipt Notification)
The WG will not submit any new protocols only extensions or augmentations
to existing or proposed Standards Track protocols.
Proposed solutions:=20
Proposed solutions should not impose undue burdens on implementers in order
that the protocol should be available on a wide variety of devices and=
systems.
The group will take note of other areas within the IETF that may have
direct bearing on reliable document delivery.
Relevant areas include: =20
- Security, Authentication and Encryption (TLS, etc)
- Sender Identification (vCard)
- RFC 2301 File Formats
- Digital Signatures and Certificates
Particular emphasis will be taken to design protocol elements that would
likely reduce the possibility of document =93spaming=94 as well as other for=
ms
of denial and abuse of service.
The working group will closely coordinate its activities with other IETF
Work Groups, including the Internet Print Protocol working group [IPP] and
the Internet Fax working group [FAX] as well other document transmission
related standards bodies and related work groups, notably the ITU-T Study
Group 8. =20
Goals and Milestones: =20
May 1999 : Submit Internet Draft of Goals and Objectives for Quality
Document Distribution or submit addendum to RFC 2542 (Goals and Terminology
for Internet Fax)
July 1999: Conclude Due Diligence investigation on existing protocols for
use as Quality Document Distribution base line. =20
September 1999 : Submit Internet Draft for Quality Document Distribution
Protocol
December 1999 : Submit Internet Draft of Quality Document Gateway Services=
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