read-me.txt

This set of specifications consists of four main documents plus errata that, together, form the IrMC definitions.
1.  'IrMC_v1p1.pdf' (v1.1, dated 01 Mar, 99) is the main IrMC specification.
2.  'vchgs_1p0.pdf' (v1.0, dated 15 Oct '97) extends the Internet Mail Consortium's vCard v2.1 specification.
3.  'Ultra_1p0.pdf' (v1.0, dated 15 Oct '97) defines the connectionless version of the IrMC specification.
4.  'IrPHY_1p3.pdf' (v1.3, dated 15 Oct '98) extends IrPHY to handle lower power, shorter distance FIr connections in addition to the similar SIr extensions provided in v1.2.
5.  'IrMC_Errata_990414.pdf' (v1.0, dated 14 April '99) adds the errata approved during the April '99 meeting in Paris.
6.  'IrMC_Errata_990714.pdf' (v1.0, dated 30 July '99) adds the errata approved during the July '99 meeting in Burlingame, CA.
7.  'IrMC_Errata_991014.pdf' (v1.0, dated 24 October '99) adds the errata approved during the October '99 meeting in Burlingame, CA.
8.  'IrUT_v1p0.pdf'  (v1.0, dated 26 October '99) defines a Universal Translator for High Speed Radio.
9.  'IrMC_Errata_000114.pdf' (v1.0, dated 11 January, '00) adds the errata approved during the January '00 meeting in Burlingame, CA.
10. 'IrMC_Errata_000410.pdf' (v1.0, dated 10 April, '00) adds the errata approved during the April '00 meeting in San Francisco, CA.
11. 'IrMC_Errata_000718.pdf' (v1.0, dated 28 July, '00) adds the errata, including vBookmark, approved during the July '00 meeting in San Diego, CA.
12. 'IrMC_Errata_001024.pdf' (v1.0, dated 24 October, '00) adds the errata approved during the October '00 meeting at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.
13. 'iMelody_v1p2.pdf'  (v1.2, dated 24 October, '00) defines a method to allow the transfer of alert 'melodies' between radios and other devices and includes the v1.2 updates approved during the Oct '00 meeting at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

The 'IrMC_v1p1.pdf' file in this IrMC set of specifications incorporates all the published errata from 1998 plus synchronization updates and errata from the January '99 IrDA meeting.  The 'IrMC_Errata_990414.pdf', 'IrMC_Errata_990714.pdf', 'IrMC_Errata_991014.pdf', 'IrMC_Errata_000114.pdf', 'IrMC_Errata_000410.pdf', IrMC_Errata_000718.pdf', and IrMC_Errata_001024.pdf' files add the errata approved during the 14 April, 14 July, and 14 October, 1999, plus the 14 January, 10 April, 18 July, and 24 October, 2000, IrDA meetings in Paris, FR, Buringame, CA, Buringame, CA, Burlingame, CA, San Francisco, CA, San Diego, CA, and Tokyo, Japan, respectively.

This also includes the 'IrUT_v1p0.pdf' file that was approved during the 14 October, 1999, meeting in Buringame, CA defining a Universal Translator for High Speed Radio and the 'iMelody_v1p2.pdf' file in this IrMC set of specifications that was approved during the 14 October, 1999, meeting in Buringame, CA, and updated during the 18 July, 2000, meeting in San Diego, CA, and in the 24 October, 2000, meeting in Tokyo, JP, to define a method to allow the transfer of alert 'melodies' between radios and other devices.

Please note that the IrMC set of specifications is actively evolving and, as such, will continue to further refine the transfer of information between radios, PDAs, and PCs as time and radio and low-power consumer device technologies progress.  If the reader is currently implementing or planning to implement IrMC features in such products, please contact IrMC Convenors Rob Lockhart ('rob.lockhart@motorola.com') or James Scales ('james.scales@nokia.com') for access to the current state of these specifications and updates concerning in-process tasks.

Thank you,
IrMC Task Force