Greg (gregv@lucent.com)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:59:48 -0600
I recognize your pain. I love for new functionality to magically show up in
the installed base. I'd be making lots more money if that were true.
However, there really is no effective way to add functionality to a client
without eh, adding functionality to the client. If the client does not
label the content as a voice message, how is the recipient to know it's a
voice message? If the client does not send the file in a format the
recipient expects, how is it to interpret it?
IVM has made a good set of specifications that can be implemented by
standard clients. They were designed to fail-back well for RECEIVERS that
do not support these standards. If the client does not support the
standards when sending, the client will generate the same
text-plus-attachment email it already does.... no worse, but no better than
the current case.
Greg V.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hobson [mailto:andrew.hobson@cbeyond.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 12:35 PM
To: Glenn Parsons
Cc: 'IETF VPIM List'
Subject: Re: [VPIM] VPIM in the real world
"Glenn Parsons" <gparsons@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> At the end of the day, for interoperability, all that is necessary is
> the ability to play the audio file that was sent.
I guess I don't see it that way. I'd like for a UM system to be able
to determine which messages are voice messages, which messages are
emails, and which messages are emails with voice attachments. I'd
like for the UM system to be able to do this even if the message has
been forwarded. I'd like for this to be possible with currently
deployed Mail User Agents (such as Outlook Express).
I'm pursing such a solution with our vendors. I'd like to see the
solution standardized so that interoperability between UM vendors is
possible until the widespread deployment of VPIM/IVM aware clients
makes it unnecessary.
Drew
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