RFC 3192 (rfc3192) - Page 1 of 11
Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail
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Network Working Group C. Allocchio
Request for Comments: 3192 GARR-Italy
Obsoletes: 2304 October 2001
Updates: 2846
Category: Standards Track
Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo describes a simple method of encoding Global Switched
Telephone Network (GSTN) addresses of facsimile devices in the
local-part of Internet email addresses.
1. Introduction
As with all Internet mail addresses, the left-hand-side (local-part)
of an address generated according to this specification, is not to be
interpreted except by the MTA that is named on the right-hand-side
(domain).
Since the very first e-mail to fax gateway objects appeared, a number
of different methods to specify a fax address as an e-mail address
have been used by implementors. Several objectives for this methods
have been identified, like to enable an e-mail user to send and
receive faxes from his/her e-mail interface, to allow some kind of
"fax over e-mail service" transport (possibly reducing the costs of
GSTN long distance transmissions) while using the existing e-mail
infrastructure.
This memo describes the MINIMAL addressing method and standard
extensions to encode FAX addresses into e-mail addresses, as required
in reference [13]. The opposite problem, i.e., to allow a
traditional numeric-only fax device user to access the e-mail
transport service, is not discussed here.
Allocchio Standards Track