Hi all,
thanks for the comments submitted by Bill, Don and Jay. This new version has
taken their proposed changes into account, except for the following two
points that I did not think were supported by the whole group:
1) Bill suggested that the wording about "authentication etc." was too
strong. I believe that the security aspects cannot be underrated when we aim
for an Internet standard (as opposed to intranets, where security behind
firewalls may be more relaxed). I changed "shall" to "will" if that is
considered an improvement? Comments?
2) Jay was uncertain about keeping the formulation about "extensibility
paths". We do have this in DPA, and I believe that this is a very important
design feature that we need to carry over into the IPP version. Is there
really disagreement about this point?
What still needs to be done is to add references to the Internet-Draft(s) at
the end of the document.
As this is a short document, I skipped trying to make line numbers and
revision marks.
I hope that we can reach agreement on the text tomorrow...
Carl-Uno
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(DRAFT 2: 11/19/96)
IETF Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) WG
Chair(s):
Carl-Uno Manros <manros at cp10.es.xerox.com>
Applications Area Director(s):
Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>
Harald Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand at uninett.no>
Area Advisor:
TBD
Mailing List Information:
General Discussion: <ipp at pwg.org>
To Subscribe: <ipp-request at pwg.org>
Archive: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/
Editor:
Scott Isaacson <scott_isaacson at novell.com>
Description of Working Group:
Internet printing involves using Internet technologies and services
to find networked resources, such as printers, and then submit jobs
using those resources.
The goal of this working group is to define a new application level
distributed printing protocol as well as defining naming and service
registration attributes for printing. The protocol shall support a
global, distributed environment where print service users (clients,
applications, drivers, etc.) cooperate and interact with print service
providers (servers, printers, gateways, etc.).
The working group will leverage existing (and emerging) technologies
for: authentication, authorization, privacy, and commercial transactions.
For location of printers, the working group will leverage existing
standards for directories.
The working group shall strive to coordinate its activities with other
printing-related standards bodies.
The new job submission protocol should not strive to preclude any
types of output devices (e.g., fax, printer, gateway). Also, the
working group shall define extensibility paths so that similar extensions
will interoperate and proprietary, dissimilar extensions will never
conflict.
The Internet Printing Protocol will be designed to make use of Web
browsers, HTTP, and LDAP for directory look-ups.
The Internet Printing Protocol is intended to replace RFC 1179 'Line
Printer Daemon Protocol'. LPR/LPD was designed a long time ago with
line printers in mind. It does not fit with current page oriented
printing technologies.
Deliverables and Milestones:
Done
Mailing list and archive
November 1996 - Submit first set of Internet-Drafts
December 1996 - BOF in IETF meeting in San Jose, CA, USA
March 1997 - Submit Internet-Drafts
April 1997 - Review of specification in IETF meeting in Memphis, TN, USA
May 1997 - At least 2 implemented prototypes
May 1997 - Submit document(s) to the IESG for Proposed Standard
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts
Carl-Uno Manros
Xerox Corporation
701 S. Aviation Blvd.
M/S: ESAE-231
El Segundo, CA 90245, USA
E-mail: manros at cp10.es.xerox.com