IP: Re: Internet FAX standards put on hold...fyi

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:33:21 -0600
> To: farber () cis upenn edu, ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com
> From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>
> Subject: Re: IP: Internet FAX standards put on hold...fyi
>
> Dave:
>
> TIFF is quite old, so any patents on it are probably teetering on the brink
> of expiration (as is the Unisys Lempel-Ziv-Welch patent).
>
> But why are they using TIFF at all? The original Group 3 FAX standard
> provided all of the compression that was necessary for simple FAXes.
> Perhaps the IETF should forget about proprietary offerings and go with
> something such as DCX or PNG. Both are widely supported and not subject to
> intellectual property constraints.
>
> While patents are important to protect inventors, nothing subject to them
> should be incorporated into an official industry standard.
>
> --Brett Glass



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