From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: Consortium Draft Standard Available For Public Review: XIE Protocol
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:50:19 GMT
Distribution: inet

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.