RFC 910 (rfc910) - Page 2 of 11
Multimedia mail meeting notes
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RFC 910 August 1984 Multimedia Mail Meeting Notes completed and parts (the document editor) were demonstrated running on the Sun. Diamond will be used in the ADDCOMPE testbed with 100-200 users expected in the next year or so. Future plans include building on the experience gained with Diamond in the area of multimedia conferencing, extending the use of multimedia into other application areas and applying the distributed architecture of Diamond to other application areas. 2.2. ISI A new effort aimed at developing a user interface on a Xerox 1108 (Dandelion) workstation has just begun. All of the implementation is being done in Interlisp. Initial work has been done to implement IP and TFTP on the 1108 as well as a document editor that makes use of the Interlisp-D window system. Work on the user interface that was developed on the Perq will be cycling down. The implementation of the MPM on TOPS-20 is essentially complete with the addition of MPM to SMTP mail conversion; no major changes are anticipated. The TOPS-20 MPM will be used as the message transport facility for the 1108 user interface implementation. TFTP will be used to get messages from the 1108 to the TOPS-20. 2.3. SRI The SRI multimedia mail system consists of three parts: The Multimedia Mail Handler (MMH) which is the user's interface for managing mail, the Structure Editor (SE) which is used to view and compose multimedia messages and the MPM for mail transport. This system is implemented on the Sun Workstation. The first release of the MPM on the Sun will be ready for distribution at the end of this summer. The SE is used to view and compose structures of multimedia objects. Currently there is support for text, voice and graphics. Another effort at SRI involves integration of applications to run in the ADDCOMPE testbed. Diamond will be the first example of an application which uses multimedia data in the testbed. SRI is interested in examining the issues associated with multimedia systems to determine how multimedia data can be used in other applications that might be put into the testbed. 2.4. Linkabit Linkabit has recently received a contract to work on protocol evaluation, problems associated with working in a large internet environment, and new real-time end-to-end services. They will be working with Sun workstations. Areas of interest are protocols, multimedia conferencing and domains. Forsdick
