steven@minnie.cs.su.OZ.AU (Steven Sommer) (04/05/91)
I am currently working on an honours project which involves developing a Multi-Media mailing system to run under X11 and unix. It will need to be fully compatible with our current system (ie with RFC-822). I would appreciate any information you could send me that you think would be of value. Eg. Information on current systems, names and sources of definitive papers, highly recommended books etc. Thanks, Steven Sommer
jxr@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Jonathan Rosenberg) (04/05/91)
> I am currently working on an honours project which involves developing a > Multi-Media mailing system to run under X11 and unix. It will need to be > fully compatible with our current system (ie with RFC-822). > I would appreciate any information you could send me that you think would > be of value. Eg. Information on current systems, names and sources of > definitive papers, highly recommended books etc. Well, with all modesty, let me suggest that you look at the papers on the Andrew Message System (AMS). AMS, which has been in use at Carnegie Mellon University for several years, is a multimedia mail mail and bulletin board system that is fully compatible with RFC 822, SMTP, etc. Here's a list of references I have handy: Nathaniel Borenstein, Craig Everhart, Jonathan Rosenberg and Adam Stoller. Architectural Issues in the Andrew Message System. In IFIP WG 6.5 Working Conference on Message Handling Systems. Elsevier, 1988. October 10-12, 1988, Costa Mesa, CA. Nathaniel Borenstein, Craig Everhart, Jonathan Rosenberg and Adam Stoller. A Multi-media Message System for Andrew. In Proceedings of the USENIX Winter Conference. USENIX Association, Dallas, TX, February, 1988. Jonathan Rosenberg, Craig F. Everhart and Nathaniel S. Borenstein. An Overview of the Andrew Message System. In Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '87 Workshop: Frontiers in Computer Communications Technology. ACM, Stowe, VT, August, 1987. In addition, you should look at the Diamond System (now known as Slate) done at BBN. This is the only reference I have handy, but I think Terry Crowley reads this list (Terry: you out there?) and he can provide additional references. Robert H. Thomas, Harry C. Forsdick, Terrence R. Crowley, Richard W. Schaaf, Raymond S. Tomlinson and Virginia M. Travers Diamond: A Multimedia Message System Built on a Distributed Architecture IEEE Computer, (18/12), December, 1985 > Thanks, > Steven Sommer Have fun. JR
tcrowley@DIAMOND.BBN.COM ("Terry Crowley") (04/06/91)
There aren't any really complete published references describing BBN/Slate although you might check out the article in Unix Review, October 1989. Alternatively, you might simply get a copy of the system with full documentation. The academic discount program makes it available for $100 a license. Send to pgazley@bbn.com for info (sorry for the plug to the mailing list - I would have replied directly but mail to his reply address bounced). Terry
keith@dali.cc.gatech.edu (keith edwards) (04/07/91)
In article <2268@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> steven@basser.cs.su.OZ.AU (Steven Sommer) writes: > >I am currently working on an honours project which involves developing a >Multi-Media mailing system to run under X11 and unix. It will need to be >fully compatible with our current system (ie with RFC-822). > >I would appreciate any information you could send me that you think would be >of value. Eg. Information on current systems, names and sources of definitive >papers, highly recommended books etc. > >Thanks, > Steven Sommer We (the Multimedia Computing Group at Georgia Tech) have developed an X-based multimedia mail system named Montage. The system allows the transmission of compound documents along with a "table of contents" that specifies the types of the various components of the document. These types are then used to index into a user defaults database that retrieves "handlers" specified by the user for each particular media type. The system does not specify any predefined types so Montage is extensible to new media by end users. Montage uses a packing process to allow the transmission of arbitrary messages via RFC-822. Look in the Proceedings of IEEE Tricom '91 (which will be held Apr 17-19 in Chapel Hill, NC) for a paper called, "The Design and Implementation of the Montage Multimedia Mail System." This paper gives an overview of the structure of Montage messages and details how the system was implemented. Someone also told me (although I haven't seen it yet) that there is a brief writeup on the system in the Multimedia Supplement in this month's EE Times. Mail me if you want more info. Cheers, Keith -- keith edwards -- the software engineering research center / multimedia group internet: keith@dali.cc.gatech.edu georgia tech uucp: {the_known_world}!gatech!dali!keith atlanta, ga next: kedwards@next.com 30332-0280