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- From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
- Subject: Consortium Draft Standard Available For Public Review: XIE Protocol
- Message-ID: <9212302250.AA01364@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:50:20 GMT
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- An MIT X Consortium draft standard defining the X Image Extension (XIE)
- protocol is now available for Public Review. XIE is intended to provide
- efficient and robust image display. XIE provides for image transfer
- between client and server, simple image enhancement and filtering operations,
- and conversion of images to match the X server's display characteristics.
-
- The objective of this Public Review is to determine if the current draft is
- acceptable as a Consortium standard. Public Review can result in changes to
- the draft standard.
-
- Public Review of XIE is scheduled to end April 23, 1993. The X community is
- encouraged to review the draft and submit comments by electronic mail to:
- public-review@expo.lcs.mit.edu
- or by postal mail to:
- Bob Scheifler
- MIT X Consortium
- Laboratory for Computer Science
- 545 Technology Square
- Cambridge MA 02139
-
- Electronic mail is preferred.
- Comments sent to other addresses are not guaranteed to be considered.
-
- Commentors should take the review process seriously, and should:
- 1. Identify objectionable functionality and wording in the document.
- 2. Suggest specific alternative functionality and wording.
- and most importantly:
- 3. Provide a rationale for the suggested changes.
-
- Commentors should also carefully distinguish between:
- 1. Problems that they regard as intolerable and that must be corrected
- before the specification becomes a standard.
- 2. Aspects that they do not like but could live with for a few years
- until a future revision of the standard.
- 3. Additional functionality that they can live without in the current
- standard but would like to see in a future revision.
-
-
- The following compressed document is available via anonymous ftp to
- export.lcs.mit.edu in the directory /pub/DOCS/XIE/
-
- XIE.ps.Z PostScript
-
- The draft standard will also come out as "Special Issue C" of The X Resource,
- published by O'Reilly and Associates. If you want to order copies, the
- price is $20.00 plus shipping. Orders will be shipped on January 27.
- The ordering number is 1-800-998-9938. (If the order taker claims
- ignorance, ask for Cathy Record.) I'm told orders may have to be in
- by January 5, so hurry!
-
- The document is also available in compressed, uuencoded form via the
- archive server at xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu. The following items are available,
- by sending a message with the Subject: line of "send docs <itemname>"
- and an empty message body:
-
- XIE.ps.uu.1 uuencoded XIE.ps.Z, in 7 parts
- XIE.ps.uu.2
- XIE.ps.uu.3
- XIE.ps.uu.4
- XIE.ps.uu.5
- XIE.ps.uu.6
- XIE.ps.uu.7
-
- For example, use "send docs XIE.ps.uu.1" to retrieve the first part of
- the document. Send a separate message for each part you want. You need
- to obtain all 7 parts and concatenate them together before printing.
-
- Some mailers produce mail headers that are unusable for extracting return
- addresses. If you use such a mailer, you won't get any response. If you
- happen to know an explicit path, you can include a line like
- path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
- or
- path bar!foo!frotz
- in the body of your message, and the daemon will use it.
-