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Real-time Facsimile (T



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RFC 3362                MIME Sub-type image/t38              August 2002


   ITU-T Recommendation T.38 [T.38] Annex D describes system level
   requirements and procedures for internet aware facsimile
   implementations and internet aware facsimile gateways conforming to
   ITU-T T.38 to establish calls with other ITU-T T.38 implementations
   using the procedures defined in IETF RFC 2543 [SIP-99] and IETF RFC
   2327 [SDP].

   Note that ITU-T T.38 Recommendation T.38 (04/02) [T.38] is an
   aggregation of the original ITU-T Recommendation T.38 (06/98) [T.38-
   98] and all of the subsequent Amendments and Corrigendum including
   [T.38D-00].  While [T.38] and [T.38D-00] describe SIP procedures per
   [SIP-99], the procedures can also be applied to the revised Session
   Initiation Protocol specification [SIP].

3.1  image/t38 Usage

   Annex D of [T.38] describes that the image/t38 media type is intended
   to indicate a T.38 media stream in SDP.

   This media type registration is not intended for email usage.

4.  IANA Registration

      To: 
      Subject: Registration of Standard MIME media type image/t38

      MIME media type name: image

      MIME subtype name: t38

      Required parameters: none

      Optional parameters: none

      Encoding considerations: Binary

      Security considerations:

         This content denotes a facsimile bit stream that may or
         may not be encrypted.

      Interoperability considerations :

         This MIME media subtype is intended to be used as a
         parameter by SDP in SIP call setup for T.38 as described in
         ITU-T Rec. T.38 Annex D.  Any use of this media type by
         email applications is not defined and as a result is not
         guaranteed to interoperate with a T.38 stream.



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