RE: Last Call: SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation toP roposed Standard

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:39 AM 7/3/2002 -0500, COLES, RICHARD J. (JSC-EV) (LM) wrote:
> I just wanted to be sure that everyone knew how important FAX is to NASA
> (and, I suppose, to other agencies of the Federal government).

Right.  Folks often do not realize that even Telex is still a critical 
infrastructure service, for portions of the world.  My guess is that we are 
looking at 10-20 years before fax is truly relegated to a minor 
role.  Fully replacing well-established infrastructures takes a very long 
time, no matter how quickly a new one emerges.

One reason for doing fax over the Internet is for cheaper and faster fax 
service, but another is to integrate the fax and email communities, as much 
as is reasonable.  (Personally I have a third goal, which is to provide 
email with a target service level that is more demanding that Internet mail 
has provided until now and is known to be useful for business; with fax we 
get that, and we do not need to debate the philosophy of business 
communications.)

d/

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