Charles Eliot (charle@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:52:18 -0700
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-vpim-hint-07.txt should
help in this.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hobson [mailto:andrew.hobson@cbeyond.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:38 AM
To: Vaudreuil, Greg M (Greg)
Cc: Glenn Parsons; 'IETF VPIM List'
Subject: Re: [VPIM] VPIM in the real world
"Vaudreuil, Greg M (Greg)" <gregv@lucent.com> writes:
> 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?
It looks like I haven't communicated effectively. I'm sorry.
The proposal I sent in my original message does not require changes on
the client, but by the UM vendor.
My suggestion is for the UM vendor to include a text attachment in
addition to whatever it is currently doing when sending a voice message
as an email. If a non VPIM/IVM MUA such as OE forwards the email, the
text attachment will be preserved and the UM system will be able to use
the text attachment to recognize the forwarded message as a voice
message.
This doesn't help the MUA any, but it does allow the UM system to
present the voice message via the Telephony User Interface, which I
think is important.
Please note that my proposal is not intended to supercede or replace
VPIM or IVM or any other standard. It is only intended to give the UM
system a fighting chance to determine that an email contains a voice
message prior to the widespread acceptance of VPIM/IVM aware MUAs.
Drew
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