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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2554)	12/12/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Very interesting, thank you. I'll not probe deeper, but I can comment, and well, maybe ask one more question. I grasp the application--legacy mainframes, channel attached, SNA, JPEG images from sender to one receiver, storage of JPG image by recipient, throughput limited by mechanical scanner/sorters speed. Perfect for a modern ip network and there are companies that do the channel attached ip thing. Transport (TCP) is pretty cool also. Understand the standards thing if we are doing something everybody has to do--check clearing. Sigh, gummit is in this and when it comes to transactions and computing, the IRS comes to mind-Woe is us. Only one question--triple DES required ??

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2554)	12/12/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Frank, re:<<Equally daunting is the amount of storage space needed to house this new media form for financial checks, stubs, credit card slips, remittance notices, and the image statements for all of the above, given the need to satisfy the retention periods involved:>> Ever looked at a company called Ioptics? They have an interesting compact optical storage technology. Still too 'developmental' to say which applications are best suited for it, but there are lots of potential applications, depending on how it's packaged. It would seem to be scalable to large archival applications, but that's not the initial target. Some discussion is at: Subject 19898 and the company website is at: www2.ioptics.com dh