RAF@CU.NIH.GOV ("Roger Fajman") (11/27/89)
With regard to recent discussions about store and forward file
transfer, the following suggests that there is some question about
X.400 support for arbitrary files as part of a message. Any comment?
Roger Fajman
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Notes from the CCITT X.400 group meeting in November 1989
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These are my personal notes, not official minutes.
The CCITT rapporteaur group Q.18/VII met for its first meeting
with technical work during the 1989-1992 study period in Rhodes,
Greece in November 1989.
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File transfer
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The possibility of file transfer in X.400 is investigated. By
"file transfer" is meant the carrying of computer programs,
Spreadsheet worksheets etc in IPM or in new content types.
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Date: 20 Nov 89 16:47 +0100
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Subject: WKS files as externally-defined body parts
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I know that NIST in US has an agreement to use the body part
bilaterlly defined to transfer binary data. Severla implementor
already support this. Of course there is a drawback; you can
not distinguish between different types of binary files. If you
intend to automate something i would go for a externally defined
body part. The problem is of course that there are noone that
care about registering OBJECT IDENTIFIERS.
One solution wold be to register your own and use that.
Johan Lundberg, TeleDelta Sweden