PWG-IPP Mail Archive: RE: PWG Qualdocs Project

RE: PWG Qualdocs Project

From: Manros, Carl-Uno B (cmanros@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 14:04:16 EDT

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    Paul,

    Your statement in the message below:

    "Although the PWG was formally chartered by the IETF to produce the IPP
    standard
    this is not the case for Qualdocs - this is not a formal IETF project."

    is incorrect. It is true that much of the work on IPP has been made by PWG
    members
    and that the PWG has run complementary activities to support the IETF IPP
    activities,
    but the PWG has never had a formal role in the IETF IPP project.

    Carl-Uno Manros
    Chair of the IETF IPP WG

    -----Original Message-----
    From: pmoore@peerless.com [mailto:pmoore@peerless.com]
    Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:35 AM
    To: ietf-fax@imc.org
    Subject: PWG Qualdocs Project

    You might be interested to know that the PWG launched a Qualdocs working
    group
    to try to make progress on this project. This is the same body that has
    delivered IPP. This has been done because the IETF has decided that it is
    overlaoded at present. Although the PWG was formally chartered by the IETF
    to
    produce the IPP standard this is not the case for Qualdocs - this is not a
    formal IETF project. The PWG is an IEEE-ISTO body however and has produced
    many
    standards

    For those who have not come across the QualDocs term before it is a proposed
    protocol to provide synchronous negotiated faxing on a network. This should
    be
    very interesting to anybody involved in Internet Fax. The current idea is to
    use
    a mix of IFAX standards and IPP as the transport.

    We are having our inaugral meeting in September (see below for details).
    Membership of the PWG is not required in order to attend - there is a
    minimal
    fee for attendees to cover room and refreshment costs (~$50 a day). The PWG
    genrally arranges special hotel rates for attendees. Membership does bring
    the
    right to particpate in formal votes (which are not very frequent - the PWG
    operates by consensus as much as possible). For more details check out
    http://pwg.org/chair/index.html.

    There is a mailing list for this project: email majordomo@pwg.org with body
    text
    "subscribe ifx".

    Meeting details:
    When: September 15 all day (8.30am to 6pm) as part of the 9/11-9/15 PWG
    meeting
    Where: Chicago - venue TBD - look at the pwg.org website. Plus notification
    will
    be sent on the mailing list

    See you there

    Paul Moore
    Peerless Systems Networking
    PWG Qualdocs chair

    FYI - here are some of the current worrking drafts.

    ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2542.txt

    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/Internet-Drafts/draft-klyne-qualdoc-goals
    -02.txt

    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/Internet-Drafts/draft-moore-qualdocs-prot
    ocol-00.txt



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