HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 02:20:07 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) Last-Modified: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 05:48:11 GMT ETag: "2e7a9a-27d0-3529be1b" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 10192 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Fax Working Group Larry Masinter Internet Draft Xerox Corporation March 13, 1998 08:53PST Dan Wing Expires August 1998 Cisco Systems draft-ietf-fax-eifax-00.txt Extended Facsimile Using Internet Mail Status of this memo This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net (Europe), munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ds.internic.net (US East Coast), or ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast). This draft is being discussed by the IETF FAX working group. To subscribe to the mailing list, send a message to ietf-fax-request@imc.org with the line "subscribe" in the body of the message. Archives are available from http://www.imc.org/ietf-fax. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This document describes extensions to "Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail" [SERVICE] to accomplish additional features, including transmission enhanced faxes (higher resolution, color), confirmation of delivery, quick message delivery, GSTN billing information and message confidentiality. 1. Introduction This document notes a number of enhancements to the "Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail" [SERVICE] that may be combined to create an extended mode of facsimile using Internet mail: * Delivery confirmation (Section 2) * Additional document features (Section 3) * Quick delivery and confirmation (Section 4) * GSTN billing information (Section 5) * Confidentiality (Section 6) * Cover sheet generation (Section 7) A device which supports all of these recommendations is called an EIFax (Extended Internet Fax) device. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. 2. Delivery Confirmation In Internet Mail, the operations of Delivery (to the mailbox) and Disposition (to paper or a screen) may be separated in time and location. The confirmation of these two operations are supplied by Delivery Status Notifications [RFC1891, RFC1894] and Message Disposition Notifications [MDN] respectively. An EIFax sender MAY request either DSN or MDN, or both. An EIFax recipient that performs message delivery MUST provide DSN [RFC1891]; an EIFax recipient that performs message disposition MUST support the return of Message Disposition Notifications [MDN]. 3. Additional document features [SERVICE] requires that a sender must not send documents with features beyond those supported by the S profile of [TIFF], unless the capabilities of the recipient are known. To extend [SERVICE] to allow sending of other document features, a mechanism by which the sender can determine additional recipient capabilities is necessary. Recipient capabilities to handle document features are described using media features as described in [FEATURES]; media features appropriate for facsimile are established in [MEDIA]. Other features (for private extensions by particular manufacturers, for example) MAY also be registered and used. 3.1 Message Disposition Notification Extension EIFax recipients SHOULD implement [MDN-FEATURES]; this returns to the sender the recipient's features as part of the message disposition notification. EIFax senders MAY retain a local cache of information about the features supported by recipients. When an EIFax device sends a message to a specific recipient, it MAY use cached information to determine the recipient's capabilities to handle extended document features, such as the ability to handle additional TIFF profiles, media size and resolution, or document formats. 4. Quick Delivery and Confirmation [SESSION] describes a method by which delivery confirmation may be delivered quickly, if there is a simultaneous connection between sender and recipient. EIFax devices SHOULD implement [SESSION]. Intermediate MTAs, e.g., as part of firewalls, MAY also act as [SESSION] gateways, allowing for immediate delivery, with fallback to store-and-forward. EIFax devices MAY implement standard Internet mail routing using the domain name system [RFC974]. EIFax devices MAY be SMTP recipients registered as the primary mail exchanger for their domain. This combination will allow the sending EIFax device to communicate directly with the recipient device. 5. GSTN Billing Information [SERVICE] recommends that an offramp gateway servicing multiple mailboxes use SMTP as its protocol. To provide billing information for the offramp service back to the originator of a message, the offramp gateway SHOULD implement [DSN-EXTENSIONS]. 6. Confidentiality The user perception of GSTN-based fax is that it is secure, and faxes are used to send many confidential documents. In order to provide the same level of confidentiality for fax over email, even better levels of security are necessary due to the nature of email and the threats of snooping. 6.1 Content p To secure the contents of the message itself, EIFax devices SHOULD implement S/MIME [SMIME] or PGP-MIME [PGPMIME] or both. 6.2 Envelope To secure the envelope itself, EIFax devices should implement [AUTH]. 7. References [SERVICE] K.Toyoda, H. Ohno, J. Murai, D. Wing, "A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail", draft-ietf-fax-service-05.txt, Feb 1998. [RFC2119] S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC1894] K. Moore, G. Vaudreuil, "An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications", RFC 1894, January 1996 [RFC1891] K. Moore, "SMTP Service Extensions for Delivery Status Notifications", RFC 1891, January 1996. [MDN] R. Fajman, "An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications", draft-ietf-receipt-mdn-08.txt, Feb 1998. [TIFF] L. McIntyre, S. Zilles, R. Buckley, D. Venable, G. Parsons, J. Rafferty, "File Format for Internet Fax", draft-ietf-fax-tiffplus-08.txt, Feb 1998. [FEATURES] K. Holtman, A. Mutz, T. Hardie, "Feature Tag Registration Procedures", draft-ietf-conneg-feature-reg-00.txt, March 1998. [MEDIA] "Media Features for Display, Print, and Fax", L. Masinter, K. Holtman, A. Mutz, D. Wing. draft-ietf-conneg-media-features-00.txt, March 1998. [MDN-FEATURES] L. Masinter and D. Wing, "Using Message Disposition Notifications to Indicate Supported Features", draft-ietf-fax-mdn-features-01.txt, March 1998. [SESSION] N. Joffe, D. Wing, L. Masinter, "SMTP Service Extension for Immediate Delivery", draft-ietf-fax-smtp-session-02.txt, Feb 1998. [DSN-EXTENSIONS] D. Wing. "Extensions to Delivery Status Notifications for Fax", November, 1997. [PGPMIME] J. Calls, L. Donnerhacke, H. Finney, R. Thayer. "OP Formats - OpenPGP Message Format", draft-ietf-openpgp-formats-01.txt, March 1998. [SMIME] B. Ramsdell. "S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification", draft-ietf-smime-msg-02.txt, March, 1998. [AUTH] J. Myers, "SMTP Service Extension for Authentication", draft-myers-smtp-auth-11.txt, February 1998. [GOALS] L. Masinter, "Terminology and Goals for Internet Fax", draft-ietf-fax-goals-02.txt, March 1998. [RFC974] C. Partridge. "Mail routing and the domain system", RFC 822, January 1986. 8. Authors' Addresses Larry Masinter Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA Fax: +1 415 812 4333 EMail: masinter@parc.xerox.com Dan Wing Cisco Systems, Inc. 101 Cooper Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA Phone: +1 408 457 5200 Fax: +1 408 457 5208 EMail: dwing@cisco.com Copyright Copyright (C) The Internet Society 1998. All Rights Reserved. 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