RFC 910 (rfc910) - Page 2 of 11
Multimedia mail meeting notes
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RFC 910 August 1984
Multimedia Mail Meeting Notes
completed and parts (the document editor) were demonstrated running
on the Sun. Diamond will be used in the ADDCOMPE testbed with
100-200 users expected in the next year or so. Future plans include
building on the experience gained with Diamond in the area of
multimedia conferencing, extending the use of multimedia into other
application areas and applying the distributed architecture of
Diamond to other application areas.
2.2. ISI
A new effort aimed at developing a user interface on a Xerox 1108
(Dandelion) workstation has just begun. All of the implementation is
being done in Interlisp. Initial work has been done to implement IP
and TFTP on the 1108 as well as a document editor that makes use of
the Interlisp-D window system. Work on the user interface that was
developed on the Perq will be cycling down. The implementation of
the MPM on TOPS-20 is essentially complete with the addition of MPM
to SMTP mail conversion; no major changes are anticipated. The
TOPS-20 MPM will be used as the message transport facility for the
1108 user interface implementation. TFTP will be used to get
messages from the 1108 to the TOPS-20.
2.3. SRI
The SRI multimedia mail system consists of three parts: The
Multimedia Mail Handler (MMH) which is the user's interface for
managing mail, the Structure Editor (SE) which is used to view and
compose multimedia messages and the MPM for mail transport. This
system is implemented on the Sun Workstation. The first release of
the MPM on the Sun will be ready for distribution at the end of this
summer. The SE is used to view and compose structures of multimedia
objects. Currently there is support for text, voice and graphics.
Another effort at SRI involves integration of applications to run in
the ADDCOMPE testbed. Diamond will be the first example of an
application which uses multimedia data in the testbed. SRI is
interested in examining the issues associated with multimedia systems
to determine how multimedia data can be used in other applications
that might be put into the testbed.
2.4. Linkabit
Linkabit has recently received a contract to work on protocol
evaluation, problems associated with working in a large internet
environment, and new real-time end-to-end services. They will be
working with Sun workstations. Areas of interest are protocols,
multimedia conferencing and domains.
Forsdick