To: All messaging related IETF lists
From: VPIM Work Group
Subject: Request to move VPIM v2 to Proposed Standard
Many of you are probably already aware of the Voice Profile for
Internet Mail (VPIM) specification that was issued as Experimental
RFC 1911 earlier this year. The Electronic Messaging Association (EMA),
with input from both the voice messaging and email industries, has
recently completed a final version of VPIM (dubbed version 2) that is
available as an Internet Draft <draft-ema-vpim-03.txt> and is attached
to this message. We have requested that the IETF Applications Area
approve this specification as a Proposed Standard.
To that end we hosted a successful demonstration of VPIM at
the EMA'96 show in Anaheim this past May. Five vendors interoperated
using a form of VPIM that is essentially described in the new draft.
In addition, these and other vendors are about to release real products
based on this specification. We are planning for a VPIM product demo
in spring 1997.
I think that the industry is anticipating an 'Internet Standard' for
voice messaging. The November 7th PC Week, for example, states that
proprietary Internet voice mail solutions will continue until there is
an 'Internet standard'. As a result, I believe that it would be mutually
beneficial to publish the VPIM profile as a standards track RFC this
year.
We would appreciate any comments that you may have on the VPIM v2
specification. Please copy the VPIM work group's exploder list
<vpim-l(_at_)ema(_dot_)org> when you send comments.
If there are significant concerns, Harald has indicated that we
could hold a breakfast/lunch/dinner BOF at the San Jose IETF to
discuss them. Else, the specification would progress to official
Last Call for Proposed Standard after the IETF meeting.
Regards,
Glenn
Chair of EMA's VPIM Work Group
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Glenn Parsons Multimedia & Security Standards
Nortel Technology
Phone: +1-613-763-7582 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
G3fax: +1-613-763-8385
X.400: G=Glenn; S=Parsons; P=Nortel; A=Telecom.Canada; C=CA
Internet: Glenn(_dot_)Parsons(_at_)nortel(_dot_)ca
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