This is a white paper that was prepared for the Electronic Mail Association (EMA) PRMD Operators' Committee in 1993. The paper deals with problems and risks associated with email attachments. While primarily in X.400 context, the relevance to Internet Mail MIME attachments are also discussed. The abstract topics of this paper have become very real as Email viruses and warms became part of the email experience. Many of our recommendations of 1993, remain valid even more than 10 years later.

This is a white paper that was prepared for the Electronic Mail Association (EMA) PRMD Operators' Committee in 1993. At the time, Internet Email was regarded as somewhat fringe and EMA was mostly on the X.400 band wagon. In this paper, the author -- Mohsen Banan -- subtly makes the case for Internet Email and away from X.400.

This book was originally published by Prentice Hall. Got the copyrights back and republsihed here.

From time to time I write reviews of movies that I see. This document is a collection of such reviews.

From time to time I write reviews of books and articles that I read. This document is a collection of such reviews.

Informed Comment is patterned after Juan Cole's model of commenting on current affairs regularly.

In December of 2006, I - Mohsen Banan - came across a series of articles that link Shab-e Yalda with Christmas. Most Interesting!

I decided to combine them all in one place and formed this short collection.

Domain Notation used throught Internet is backwards. This is another example of an noticed engineering mis-design.

This is a somewhat current resume. As a consultant, I always want to hear about interesting projects that are a good fit.

Speech synthesis, the production of intelligible speech from computer data, is no longer a novelty. Text-to-speech products with unlimted vocabulary are available. Soon, these products will be incorporated into telephone based inquiry systems that will give users access to data-bases from any phone. These systems would enable ordinary telephone sets to function as limited computer terminals. To accomplish this, in addition to the ability of sending information to the user in the form of computer generated speech, the system should be capable of accepting the data transmitted by the telephone (entries on the keypad of a Touch-Tone telephone set).

The aim of this project has been to study possible approaches leading to implementation of a system that would enable a computer to fully use an ordinary telephone set. The six major functions associated with using the phone are:

1. Picking-up the receiver
2. Dialing a number
3. Talking (transmitting information)
4. Listening (receiving information)
5. Hanging-up
6. Recognizing the ring.

Lifting and replacing the receiver is accomplished by using a solenoid that mechanically controls the cradle switch. Dialing is implemented by generating DTMF signals on the voice channel. A Votrax SC-01 phoneme synthesizer enables the system to talk. A MSD 3201 CMOS DTMF decoder/receiver can provide the ability to accept information (listen). Ring recognition may be accomplished through the use of a sound switch.

By using the above mentioned functions, a computer could allow for the use of an ordinary telephone set as a limited terminal. Although not in the form of a %G�%@nal product and totaly operational, the outcome of this project demonstrates the feasability and the practicality of implementing means of interaction between a computer and an ordinary telephone set.

This summarizes my experiences and observations on a recent trip to Iran. I, Mohsen BANAN, spent June 26, 1999 through July 14, 1999 in Tehran.

This document specifies the protocol and format encodings for Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery (EMSD). EMSD is a messaging protocol that is highly optimized for submission and delivery of short Internet mail messages. EMSD is designed to be a companion to existing Internet mail protocols.

This document specifies the service model, the notation and protocol for Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO). The ESRO service is similar to and is consistent with other Remote Procedure Call services. The emphasis of ESRO service definition and the ESRO protocol is on efficiency. ESRO is designed specifically with wireless network (e.g., CDPD) usage in mind.

Neda Libre Fax Appliance is based on Debian Hylafax as an adopted LSIP component.

Neda Libre Email Appliance is based on Debian and qmail++ as a coherent family of adopted LSIP components.

Neda Libre Appliances can be used as:

• Ready to run Software. To be installed by the user.
• Pre-Configured Servers. Ready to be plugged in. See http://store.neda.com
• Ready to use ByStar Internet Application Services.
• As part of a Libre Service Engine.

ByEntity (the Libre Engine of ByStar) design and implementation notes.

An Overview and an engineering description of LSIP (Libre Services Integration Platform).

BBDB Filters is a collection of tools that enhances BBDB and further integrates it with the email system, latex, hylafax, PDAs, etc.

EOE Design and Implementation Notes.

This document describes the design and implementation of PINE-EMSD user agent.

This document describes the design and implementation of EMSD-UA.

This document explains the details of design and implementation of Neda Reference Implementation of Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery Protocol which conforms to the EMSD Protocol Specifications. Documentation for ESROS (Efficient Short Remote Operation Services) is excluded from this document.

This document is prepared for designers and developers of messaging systems that conform to EMSD Protocol Specifications as specified in RFC-2524.

This document provides details on the programming development environment of Neda's source code of ESROS (Efficient Short Remote Operation Services) protocols. It will document the design of the system and the code written to implement those protocols.

The scope of this document is the protocols of Efficient Short Remote Operation Services as specified in RFC-2188.

This document describes the Open C Platform Library, a utility which aids in the consistency of portable implementation of data communications software.

This document provides an overview of Neda's Consulting Services.

Notes and instructions for common use of Windows XP at Neda.

This document applies to the genesis process for ByStar Libre Platform.

This document is intended to provide the engineering release notes necessary to recreate By*-equivalent services based on the By* Libre Engines.

This document is intended to provide a
description of the general operational requirements for deployed Libre Services.

This document is intended to provide a description the engineering and developmental models for Libre Services.

This proposal presents a strategy for a Network Service Provider to rapidly extend its service offering to include comprehensive Layer 7 capabilities and is directed towards any provider of network-oriented services.

This document describes the long-term strategic vision for Neda's By* family of Libre Services. Additional it creates a framework for cooperative exection of that vision.

As By* Libre Services are copyleft and patent-free, the entire concept is positioned as an instance example for non-material capitalism.

This paper describes the deployment of the By* services as the new model for delivery of Internet Services, planet-wide.

This article communicates Free Protocols Foundation's July 31, 2001 position regarding the Research in Motion (RIM) Mobile E-Mail Patent Assertion (Patent# 6,219,694, entitled System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device having a shared electronic address).

This article communicates Free Protocols Foundation's September 12, 2002 position regarding the Research in Motion (RIM) Mobile E-Mail Patent Assertion (Patent# 6,219,694, entitled System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device having a shared electronic address).

This article provides a description of the Free Protocols Foundations processses to ensure the development and maintenance of patent-free protocols.

This document describes the long-term strategic vision and direction statement for Neda Libre Services.

We are a group of engineers with a vision for the future of the global Internet.

A presentation of Libre Services Concept

This paper defined a set of projects representing the major stages of work required for bootstrapping the Libre Services industry into existence.

This article describes the Libre Services concept, and how we intend to turn it into a reality.

An Executive Summary of Libre Services as an extension of the principles of free software into the Internet services domain.

This article provides a technical description of EMSD, the e-mail component of LEAP.

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This article provides a technical description which describing the architecture and implementation of LEAP on Linux Based PDAs.

This article provides a general overview description of the LEAP protocols.

This article provides a description of the planned future development of LEAP, including descriptions of several LEAP-based products and services which are currently under development.

This article provides a technical description of ESRO, the transport mechanism component of LEAP.

This article provides a summary of the major events in the evolution of the LEAP protocols.

This article provides a step-by-step, hands-on demonstration of how the LEAP protocols can be used to turn any Windows CE device into a fully functional Mobile Messaging device.

This article provides a description of our strategy for encouraging widespread usage of the LEAP protocols, including the distribution of open-source software implementations of the protocols, and the availability of free subscriber services.

This article provides an analysis of the factors which lead to the success or failure of protocols, including discussions of several historical case studies.

This article provides a description of how WhiteBerry and Bluetooth can be used in combination to bring new and enhanced messaging capabilities to the mobile professional.

Au-delà de ses failles techniques et de procédure, nous pensons que le WAP représente une erreur fondamentale de conception de ce qui peut être réalisé en utilisant des téléphones cellulaires, et de ce que les utilisateurs vont vraiment vouloir faire avec leurs téléphones.

La messagerie mobile et la recherche de l$B!G(BInternet mobile représentent deux formes très différentes d$B!G(Bactivité de communications. La messagerie mobile signi%Gï¬�%@e une possibilité d$B!G(Benvoyer et de recevoir des messages personnels, tandis que la recherche de l$B!G(BInternet signi%Gï¬�%@e une récupération d$B!G(Binformation d$B!G(Boù que ce soit.

This article provides a detailed criticism of a set of specifications called the Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP. This article demonstrates that WAP is entirely unfit to play the role of a Mobile Messaging industry standard.

This article has been translated into French. The French translation is available as /PLPC/100015.

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This document describes the Lightweight & Efficient Application Protocols (LEAP), a set of protocols for mobile and wireless applications.

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This article is a follow-on to our previous article "The WAP Trap." It describes how XHTML and LEAP can render WAP irrelevant. It then deals with what to do with what is left of WAP. This paper too, is likely to cause considerable controversy.

This article provides a technical description which describing the architecture and implementation of LEAP on Palm OS devices.

This article provides a technical description which describing the architecture and implementation of LEAP in JAVA.

This article provides a description of how equivalent functionality to the closed BlackBerry mobile messaging solution can be implemented based on a completely open model, using existing open-source software implementations of LEAP, and existing off-the-shelf hardware components.

This article provides a point-by-point comparison of the LEAP protocols to the WAP specifications. This article demonstrates that LEAP has all the desirable characteristics of an industry standard protocol that WAP lacks.

This article provides a technical description which describing the architecture and implementation of EMSD on Windows CE devices.

This article analyzes the efficiency characteristics of EMSD and comparing its efficiency to other e-mail protocols.

This article provides a description of the processes used to develop the LEAP protocols, and how and why these differ from conventional development processes. This article also includes a criticism of the IETF protocol development processes.

This article provides an overview of the Mobile Messaging industry, and a description of the essential factors that are required for its long term success and growth.

With the strong message of "No Iran War", accompanying a delegation of Green Party of Washington State to Senator Murray's office, Mohsen BANAN (as an American, as an Iranian-American and as an Iranian) addresses Patty Murray.

This is the record of the presentation made at the SPUG - Seattle Perl Users Group -- in downtown Seattle on May 15, 2007.

Libre Services are an extension of the principles of free software into the domain of Internet services. The By* Family of Libre Services is a unified and non-proprietery set of Internet Application Services for both individuals and businesses. By* Libre Services are based on pure free software which the users can reproduce at will. This is a high level overview presentation introducing the concepts from engineering, societal and business dimensions.

This is the record of the presentation made at the Linux Fest Northwest 2007 in room G-103 of Bellingham Technical College on Saturday April 28, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.

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Khodzadegi (Self-Toxication) is the disease that inflicts a society when capitalism becomes not just the economic model, but also the societal model as well. It takes an Iranian Software Engineer to identify America as a terminally ill society and to identify the ramifications of propagation of the Western Intelectual Property Regime to the East. It may be too late for America, but there is an Eastern solution.

Many symptoms of the rotting of the American society have become more clear in the past several years. The absolute total failure of health care, lack of truth in mainstream American media, bogus invasions of sovereign land are some such symptoms. These in turn signal failures of the professions of Journalism, Medicine and Politics in America.

The ill that has brough these symptoms is that capitalism kills professions.

There are measures that members of each profession should take to defend their profession. The key measure that I focus on for my profession (Software Engineering) is the rejection of Intelectual Property regime.

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This article explains the flaws in the design of the metric system and provides a rationale for why it has not been universally adopted.