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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=460511115-27042000>Carl,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=460511115-27042000>The
suggestion from the IETF 47 meeting was that multi-part MIME would not buy us
anything.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=460511115-27042000>We can
already send multiple responses in a single application/ipp MIME part with our
current encoding.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=460511115-27042000>Carl-Uno</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> owner-ipp@pwg.org
[mailto:owner-ipp@pwg.org]<B>On Behalf Of</B> Carl Kugler<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Thursday, April 27, 2000 7:58 AM<BR><B>To:</B> ipp@pwg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B>
IPP> Minutes of IPP Working Group Meeting April 4-5,
2000<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>There were a few HTTP Issues that were raised
at the IETF Plenary meeting about the ippget: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> delivery method:<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> - Should each response-part be a separate
message body in MIME multi-part?<BR>> At the IETF Plenary meeting, it
was determined that MIME multi-part should not be used for <BR>>
delivery notification.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What was the justification for this
determination? The only argument I've ever heard is that multipart might
get hosed up going through proxies. However, we already know from
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Known HTTP Proxy/Caching
Problems"<BR><draft-ietf-wrec-known-prob-01.txt> (10 March
2000)<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(see thread at <A
href="http://www.egroups.com/message/ipp/7102?&start=7086&threaded=1">http://www.egroups.com/message/ipp/7102?&start=7086&threaded=1</A>)
that sending IPP through existing proxies is a very doubtful proposition
anyway. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or has the group accepted the idea of a multipart
response but rejected the MIME encoding?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> -Carl</DIV></FONT><BR> <A
href="ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/minutes/ipp-minutes-000404.txt">ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/minutes/ipp-minutes-000404.txt</A>
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