Don,
during the Application Area Chairs'' meeting in Munich last Wednesday, I
asked Keith to amplify on his request to use MIME types rather than enums.
This resulted in Keith stating that we should see this as a directive from
him in his role as our project advisor.
My interpretation is that it does not seem likely that we will be able to
avoid the MIME-types.
Carl-Uno
At 12:14 PM 8/18/97 PDT, don at lexmark.com wrote:
>I content that when the latest and in some cases the previous
>versions of printers from Lexmark, HP, IBM, Kyocera, Tektronix,
>and Xerox support the printer MIB including the enum list of
>printer interpreters then it is not simply "hypothetical" nor is
>it "...not widely deployed..."
>>I suggest you might not want to base your conclusions on this
>obviously wrong set of facts.
>>Don
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>>>>>To: rturner%sharplabs.com at interlock.lexmark.com>cc: ipp%pwg.org at interlock.lexmark.com (bcc: Don Wright)
>Subject: IPP> MIME-types and alignment
>>>>>> It was the opinion of Larry Masinter (chair of HTTP WG), Keith
>> Moore, and most of the IETF audience that alignment with the
>> Printer MIB was a mistake, and that we should focus on sticking
>> with MIME-type specifications.
>To be more precise:
>When IPP is being used for transporting a message (document, print
>instructions) from a willing sender to a willing recipient, alignment
>with other widely implemented and deployed Internet protocols for
>message transmission (mail, fax, Web) is more useful than alignment with
>some hypothetical and not widely deployed protocol for system management
>and monitoring of the status of a device.
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>Carl-Uno Manros
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