Biographical Profile - James P. Rafferty
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James Rafferty founded and was the President of Human Communications, a consulting firm which advised clients on
emerging telecommunications technologies and helped clients plan and design highly
competitive products and services. The firm specialized in facsimile communications and
its integration with emerging messaging, multimedia and network technologies, including
the Internet. In December, 1999, James joined Brooktrout
Technology as Senior Product Manager for
Voice over IP
board products and he currently drives the successor company
Cantata Technology's Voice over IP
Gateway strategy and execution. James continues to be active in international standards and
has been a major contributor to the work on Call Discrimination and Fax/IP Fax packages
of H.248.1 for the Megaco Working
Group of the IETF and ITU-T Study Group 16.
He was also instrumental in helping to establish the standards for the use
of T.38 IP fax under the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). He
recently began work in the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in
the area of media resource control and in involved in related work in the
Internet Engineering Task Force.
James is a former editor on the TR-29 and ITU-T Study Group 8 fax standards
committees. He was also an original co-chair for the Internet
Fax Work Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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He was technical editor and publisher for Human
Communications Digest, a quarterly newletter covering the latest fax standards trends
and for Human Communications Standards Update, a series of
in-depth reports on standards and practice for selected topics. He was also editor of the
Fax Task Group within the Enterprise Computer Telephony
Forum (ECTF), which included editing on the S.100 C API specification . He
was also an active participant in several work groups within the Electronic Messaging Association. He is a frequent speaker
at major telecommunications and messaging industry conferences and has been quoted or
featured in bylined articles in The New York Times, Byte, Compact PCI Systems,
Communications Systems Design, Network World, Business Investor’s
Daily, Data Communications, PC Week, Inc. and PC Magazine. In 1996, he was awarded the
prestigious Computer Facsimile Award at the FaxWorld conference for contributions to the
computer facsimile industry. In 1998, he was named as the recipient of the Distinguished
Service award by the Electronic Messaging Association. He is also the
co-author of numerous RFCs on the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), including
TIFF-F (RFC 2306) and the
latest version TIFF-FX (RFC 3949).
Prior to forming his own firm, he had over 15 years experience in the
computer and telecommunications business with Fujitsu Imaging Systems and Burroughs
Corporation in a variety of management and development positions. As a pioneer in computer
based fax with Fujitsu, he developed market strategies and helped design several
generations of computer facsimile products.
James holds a B.S. and a Master of Engineering degrees in Management
Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He has been listed in
the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in
Finance and Industry since 1992 and was named to
Marquis Who's Who in America for
their Millenial and subsequent editions.
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