IPP>MOD What if we had both Job-Id and Job-URI for Jobs?

[papowell at astart.com]

> From rturner at sharplabs.com Tue Sep 16 15:49:16 1997
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:23:12 -0700
> From: Randy Turner <rturner at sharplabs.com>
> To: ipp at pwg.org
> Subject: Re: IPP>MOD What if we had both Job-Id and Job-URI for Jobs?
>
>  PAPowell wrote:
> ..snip..
> >The LPRng interface quite happily delivers errors.
> >And note that it is free, compiles and runs on just about any UNIX system
> >with TCP/IP networking, and there is even an NT port (Don't ask, it wasn't
> >pretty).
>
> The context of our LPR/LPD gateway has been constrained on the widely
> deployed version that come shipped with Sun, HP, IBM, and other Unix
> boxes, which is more or less based on RFC 1179 (with vendor extensions)
> and for which the line mode interface I was referring to is the predominant
> interface.


Are you saying that it will ONLY work with these versions and the vendor specific
(and undocumented...) extensions?  Or am I missing something here?
Not trying to be sarcastic,  just trying to find out the basic intent.


Patrick