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        RFC 1911:

        Title:      Voice Profile for Internet Mail
        Author:     G. Vaudreuil
        Date:       February 1996
        Mailbox:    Greg.Vaudreuil@Octel.Com
        Pages:      22
        Characters: 50,242
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1911.txt


A class of special-purpose computers has evolved to provide voice
messaging services.  These machines generally interface to a telephone
switch and provide call answering and voice messaging services.
Traditionally, messages sent to a non-local machine are transported
using analog networking protocols based on DTMF signaling and analog
voice playback.  As the demand for networking increases, there is a
need for a standard high-quality digital protocol to connect these
machines.  This RFC is a profile of the Internet standard MIME and
ESMTP protocols for use as a digital voice networking protocol.  This
profile is based on an earlier effort in the Audio Message Interchange
Specification (AMIS) group to define a voice messaging protocol based
on X.400 technology.  This protocol is intended to satisfy the user
requirements statement from that earlier work with the industry
standard ESMTP/MIME mail protocol infrastructures already used within
corporate internets.  This profile will be called the voice profile in
this document.

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
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Joyce K. Reynolds
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