The BERKOM multimedia-mail teleservice

Abstract

A multimedia-mail teleservice based on CCITT Recommendation X.400 is under development within the BERKOM Project funded by the German PTT. An additional exchange mechanism complements the electronic mail's inherent store-and-forward mechanism in order to allow the resolution of references to message content, which may be placed within a message rather than the content itself. The traditional text exchange is being enriched by supporting multimedia information in the form of standardized text, still and moving images, audio, and documents. Possible future developments are discussed.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>