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Multimedia mail meeting notes
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Network Working Group Harry Forsdick
Request for Comments: 910 BBN Laboratories
August 1984
Multimedia Mail Meeting Notes
Status of this Memo
This memo is a report on a meeting about the experimental multimedia
mail system (and in a sense a status report on that experiment).
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
1. Introduction
A meeting was held at Bolt Beranek and Newman on 23-24 July 1984 to
discuss recent progress by groups who are building multimedia mail
systems and to discuss a variety of issues related to the further
development of multimedia systems. Representatives were present from
BBN, ISI, SRI and Linkabit. The list of attendees appears at the end
of this note.
The result of this meeting is a series of agreements that will be
incorporated in the next set of experiments with multimedia mail as
well as a set of items for further action.
Note: There are references in this document to notes in a series
devoted to multimedia mail. These notes are available on-line in the
directory [USC-ISIF] and have the names MMM-N.TXT where N is the
note number. The file MMM-INDEX.TXT is a list of all of the notes in
the series. These public files may be copied via FTP using the FTP
username ANONYMOUS and password GUEST.
2. Review of Status
Status reports on work accomplished in the last year were given by
each organization.
2.1. BBN
The initial implementation of Diamond is complete and runs on the
Jericho workstation. Diamond currently supports the exchange of
compound documents which contain text, graphics, images, voice and
spreadsheet/charts. A demonstration of this system was presented
showing both the user's view of Diamond messages and message
management as well as the interactions between the components of this
distributed system. Diamond currently uses the TOPS-20 implementation
of MPM for inter-cluster message transport but the plan is to
integrate an implementation of MPM for the Sun Workstation into
Diamond. Current activity is focused on porting Diamond to the Sun
Workstation. A first version of Diamond for the Sun is nearly
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