https://museum.media.org/invisible.net/project/tpc.int.html

Carl Malamud was behind this in 1993 - you did not need to register anything - 
the entire E.164 number space was mapped into tpc.int Given that at the time 
the phone companies were making almost all their long distance revenues from 
faxes it was an early effort to bypass their monopoly. We ran a fax printing 
service for +61 at the time and we accepted incoming faxes and resent it as a 
“real” fax to the domestic number. We (Peter Elford and myself) thought it was 
mildly amusing at the time.

Geoff

> On 17 Jan 2022, at 8:46 pm, Mark Prior <m...@mrp.net> wrote:
> 
> On 13/1/22 18:11, Karl Auer wrote:
> 
>> Internet fax would be nice - fax machines with publicly reachable IP
>> addresses, protected by SSL, that just print whatever page is sent to
>> them. Some form of authentication would be essential of course :-)
> 
> Back in the dark ages there was
> 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2305>
> 
> and I think Marshall T Rose run a domain where you could register your fax 
> machines, label was the phone number if I recall correctly.
> 
> Mark.
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