RFC 3801 · DRAFT STANDARD · 2004

Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2

Overview

RFC 3801, “Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2”, is a Draft Standard document published in June 2004 by G. Vaudreuil, G. Parsons. It obsoletes RFC 2421, RFC 2423. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document specifies a restricted profile of the Internet multimedia messaging protocols for use between voice processing server platforms. The profile is referred to as the Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIM) in this document. These platforms have historically been special-purpose computers and often do not have the same facilities normally associated with a traditional Internet Email-capable computer. As a result, VPIM also specifies additional functionality, as it is needed. This profile is intended to specify the minimum common set of features to allow interworking between conforming systems. This document obsoletes RFC 2421 and describes version 2 of the profile with greater precision. No protocol changes were made in this revision. A list of changes from RFC 2421 are noted in Appendix F. Appendix A summarizes the protocol profiles of this version of VPIM. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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What “Draft Standard” means

A historical maturity level (retired in 2011) that sat between Proposed Standard and Internet Standard and required multiple interoperable implementations.

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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC obsoletes
RFC 2421 RFC 2423
Other RFCs from 2004

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