Voice Profile for Internet Mail BOF (vpim) Tuesday, March 16 at 1015-1115 ============================== Chair: Glenn Parsons DESCRIPTION: The Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIM) is currently a Proposed Standard (RFC 2421). It is a profile of Internet Mail originally intended for sending voice messages between voice messaging systems. As such, VPIM imposes several restrictions on the message and transport to support the characteristics of voice messaging. Many voice mail vendors have implemented systems according to RFC 2421 and are in the process of deploying these systems around the world. Most vendors have completed (or are currently involved in) interoperability testing of VPIM products and have posted their results on the web. Though VPIM uses Internet Mail, because of its restrictions it is still somewhat awkward to send and receive messages from traditional desktop email clients. As a result, there is interest in loosening the restrictions of VPIM in a new version and make it more of a unified messaging protocol. This would make it easier for desktop clients to send and receive voice messages while maintaining support for the characteristics of a voice message. VPIM v3 is currently documented in several internet drafts (see draft-ema-vpimv3-*): VPIM v3 Goals, VPIM v3 Unified Messaging (Primary Content), VPIM Addressing, VPIM v2 - v3 Interworking and VPIM v3 Specification . The voice mail vendors and several email vendors have been meeting in the VPIM work group at the Electronic Messaging Association (EMA) for several years. This team produced VPIM v1 (RFC 1911) and VPIM v2 (RFC 2421). This IETF meeting is intended to increase exposure to VPIM in the wider community, especially as we move to define VPIM v3. The current plan is to propose VPIM v2 for Draft Standard and VPIM v3 for Proposed Standard by summer 1999. For more information, see the VPIM web page: http://www.ema.org/vpim Mailing list: vpim-l@ema.org To subscribe: send a message to listserv@ema.org with 'subscribe VPIM-L' as the subject. AGENDA: With a 1 hour slot: 00 - Agenda bashing 05 - Brief history of VPIM 10 - VPIM v2 (RFC 2421) interop testing for progression to Draft Standard 20 - VPIM v3 Goals 25 - VPIM v3 Unified Messaging (Primary content concept) 30 - VPIM v2 - v3 Interworking 35 - VPIM Addressing 40 - VPIM v3 Specification 50 - Wrap up and next steps 60 - Close With a 2 hour slot (preferable): 00 - Agenda bashing 05 - Brief history of VPIM 15 - VPIM v2 (RFC 2421) interop testing for progression to Draft Standard 35 - VPIM v3 Goals 50 - VPIM v3 Unified Messaging (Primary content concept) 65 - VPIM v2 - v3 Interworking 75 - VPIM Addressing 85 - VPIM v3 Specification 105 - Wrap up and next steps 120 - Close