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Multimedia mail meeting notes
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Network Working Group J. Postel
Request for Comments: 807 ISI
9 February 1982
Multimedia Mail Meeting Notes
Introduction
A meeting was held at USC Information Sciences Institute on the 12th
of January 1982 to discuss multimedia mail issues and experiments.
The list of attendees is at the end of this memo.
Overview:
This meeting was called to discuss common interests in multi-media
computer mail experiments, and to agree on some specific initial
experiments.
Review of Status:
Review current status of multimedia efforts at CMU, ISI, MIT, COMSAT,
BBN, UCL, SRI.
CMU
Using PERQ, Quip for fax, LPCM vocoder from LL, will get NEC board
(3 chips) to replace vocoder. Will have a stand alone voice I/O
device that operates at 2400 baud (not packetized). Not working on
IP/TCP. Will use the IP and TCP from the BBN project. Already
using the BBN Jericho developed Pascal IP and CFTP. Interested in
word recognition of LPC digitized voice data. Planning to package
a synthesiser, an analyzer, and a pitch tracker on one board.
ISI
Using TOPS20 (code in BLISS10), and starting to use PERQ (code in
Pascal), RAPICOM 450 for fax. Main interest is in the data
structuring and message transport protocols.
MIT
Using Apollos, will program in MDL. Use of Apollos still limited
due to (1) MDL not completely implemented, (2) network interface
not yet available (waiting on multibus to then interface to
Ethernet). Will get NEC CCITT fax machine. Looking into VAX+BBN
BitGraph for future. Main work to date in design for sharing
message data in a conceptualy centralized filing system. Emphasis
Postel