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From: karl@asylum.SF.CA.US (Karl Auerbach)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Fax over tcp/ip
Message-ID: <7297@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 14 Oct 89 00:50:45 GMT
References: <8910131208.AA18264@iapetus.rice.edu>
Reply-To: karl@asylum.UUCP (Karl Auerbach)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <8910131208.AA18264@iapetus.rice.edu> almes@RICE.EDU (Guy Almes) writes:
>Steve,
>  The Internet consists of a large fabric of (increasingly) T1 leased
>lines to be used in support of scholarship and research.  If we use it
>to ship FAX images

The X.400 mail system can take fax images, both group 3 and group 4
(as well as voice, executables, ... and even ASCII text).

(For the TCP/IP "purist" [such a euphamism!], X.400 could be
considered a child of the TCP/IP community as it came from IFIP WG6.5
before ISO/OSI got 'hold of it.)

Marshall Rose has demonstrated that X.400 can work over TCP/IP.

We ought to avoid inventing yet another protocol just to handle FAX.

				--karl--