File Format for Internet Fax
RFC 3949, “File Format for Internet Fax”, is a Draft Standard document published in February 2005 by R. Buckley, D. Venable, L. McIntyre, G. Parsons, J. Rafferty. It obsoletes RFC 2301. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document is a revised version of RFC 2301. The revisions, summarized in the list attached as Annex B, are based on discussions and suggestions for improvements that have been made since RFC 2301 was issued in March 1998, and on the results of independent implementations and interoperability testing.
This RFC 2301 revision describes the Tag Image File Format (TIFF) representation of image data specified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Recommendations for black-and-white and color facsimile. This file format specification is commonly known as TIFF for Fax eXtended (TIFF-FX). It formally defines minimal, extended, and lossless Joint Bi-level Image experts Group (JBIG) profiles (Profiles S, F, J) for black-and-white fax and base JPEG, lossless JBIG, and Mixed Raster Content profiles (Profiles C, L, M) for color and grayscale fax. These profiles correspond to the content of the applicable ITU-T Recommendations. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
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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- RFC 3948 UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets
- RFC 3950 Tag Image File Format Fax eXtended - image/tiff-fx MIME Sub-type Registration
- RFC 3947 Negotiation of NAT-Traversal in the IKE
- RFC 3953 Telephone Number Mapping Service Registration for Presence Services
- RFC 3957 Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Registration Keys for Mobile IPv4
- RFC 3958 Domain-Based Application Service Location Using SRV RRs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service
- RFC 3961 Encryption and Checksum Specifications for Kerberos 5
- RFC 3962 Advanced Encryption Standard Encryption for Kerberos 5