RE: [VPIM] Analogy to Content-Duration for Faxes

"Neystadt, John" <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:31:36 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.medfree
Message-ID <[email protected]>
So, what should be a way to advance with this, should I try to write a draft
for this feature?

John Neystadt
[email protected]
http://www.neystadt.org/john/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Klyne [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wed, March 08, 2000 12:45 PM
> To: Neystadt, John
> Cc: conneg WG; IETF VPIM List; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [VPIM] Analogy to Content-Duration for Faxes
> 
> 
> John,
> 
> I think there's nothing wrong with a small RFC :-)
> 
> <draft-ietf-conneg-content-features-02.txt> has already gone 
> forward for 
> last call, and the IESG review is (at least) partially done.  
> Also, there's 
> not an obvious linkage between registration of "pages" and the 
> "content-features:" header proposal, so I think they are 
> better kept separate.
> 
> BTW, I think Larry's proposal was always to register "pages", as you 
> suggest, and that the reference to "UA-media" was simply a 
> (subsidiary) 
> possibility to qualify the kind of "page" being indicated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> #g
> --
> 
> 
> At 11:38 PM 3/7/00 +0200, Neystadt, John wrote:
> >ua-media doesn't fits well, we are not talking about user 
> agents here.
> >
> >I think registering media feaure "pages" is a better one.
> >
> >What should be done to go forward with this. It seems to 
> small item for an
> >RFC, can't we take tremp and add it into
> >draft-ietf-conneg-content-features.txt?
> >
> >John Neystadt
> >[email protected]
> >http://www.neystadt.org/john/
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Larry Masinter [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Thu, February 10, 2000 4:35 AM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Cc: Neystadt, John; IETF VPIM List; [email protected]
> > > Subject: RE: [VPIM] Analogy to Content-Duration for Faxes
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > # > Content-Features: pages=10
> > >
> > > # > to note a 10-page document.
> > >
> > > # Might even want to have an additional attribute to say what
> > > sort of "page"
> > > # you're talking about.
> > >
> > > RFC 2534 already registers 'ua-media' tag with values such as
> > > 'screen-paged'
> > > and 'stationery' (most likely the kind of pages you'd want
> > > with faxes), and
> > > a 'paper-size' tag with additional token values. At the time
> > > RFC 2534 was
> > > written, we were focusing mainly on media features for
> > > recipients rather
> > > than
> > > for content; you might still want to characterize a fax
> > > recipient as having
> > > a maximum number of pages its willing to receive, though.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> 
> ------------
> Graham Klyne
> ([email protected])
> 
>