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I find this to be a really interesting example of extending network
protocols (ESMTP/MIME) in ways that their creators might have found hard
to imagine in order to create new levels of interoperability.
- dan
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>Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ema-vpim-01.txt
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> A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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> directories.
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>
> Title : Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2
>
> Author(s) : G. Vaudreuil, G. Parsons
> Filename : draft-ema-vpim-01.txt
> Pages : 43
> Date : 09/09/1996
>
>A class of special-purpose computers has evolved to provide voice
>messaging
>services. These machines generally interface to a telephone switch and
>
>provide call answering and voice messaging services. Traditionally,
>messages sent to a non-local machine are transported using analog
>networking protocols based on DTMF signaling and analog voice playback.
> As
>the demand for networking increases, there is a need for a standard
>high-quality digital protocol to connect these machines. The following
>
>document is a profile of the Internet standard MIME and ESMTP protocols
>for
>use as a digital voice messaging networking protocol.
>
>This profile is based on an earlier effort in the Audio Message
>Interchange
>Specification (AMIS) group to define a voice messaging protocol based
>on
>X.400 technology. This protocol is intended to satisfy the user
>requirements statement from that earlier work with the industry
>standard
>ESMTP/MIME mail protocol infrastructures already used within corporate
>intranets. This Internet Draft will be referred to as VPIM (Voice
>Profile
>for Internet Mail) in this document. This second version of VPIM is
>based
>on implementation experience and obsoletes RFC 1911 which describes
>version 1 of the profile.
>
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