Eric Burger (eburger@snowshore.com)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:48:51 -0400
Note that while the minutes suggested that an Internet Voice Mail should
have at least one audio part, the drafts explicitly, and on purpose, do not
have that requirement.
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Overall, I think we are probably on the same page. I see the
following in the VPIM meeting minutes from the 10 August meeting:
* If a Message-context of voice-message is not required, what
makes a message an Internet Voice Message? Does it have to
contains an approved voice content type (or rather any voice
content type, as this is permitted)? Can a message with no voice
content be an IVM? This is permitted for a Message-context of
voice-message, but does it make sense for an Internet Voice
Message? This could be addressed by rewording the requirement on
content type as follows: "An Internet Voice Message MUST contain
at least one audio part, which may be at any location within a
message and SHOULD be contained in either an audio/wav or
audio/basic content-type - the only exception being when the
originator is aware that the recipient can handle other
content."
I'm trying to answer the first question: what makes a message an IVM?
I don't believe that the presense of audio/wav is sufficient to be
considered an IVM because an email message sent with a wav attachment
would be considered a voice message. That kind of false positive is
not acceptable, IMHO.
A more fundamental problem exists because wav attachments are not
guaranteed to show up as audio/wav. I'm going to use Outlook Express
as an example, since it is the MUA that most of our customers use.
I'm looking for a solution that will interoperate with its current
behavior.
When Outlook Express forwards an email with an attachment, as far as I
can tell it regenerates the content-type for each attachment based on
the file extension. If the user does not have a handler configured
for the wav extension, then the attachment will be of type
"application/octet-stream". Granted, most email users will probably
have a wav handler installed, but I would prefer not to depend on it.
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