The following news snippet appeared in today's version of Web Vantage:
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VANTAGE POINT http://www.web-vantage.com/vpnt.cfm
INTERNET PRINTING PROTOCOL NEARS COMPLETION
Analysis by Stephen Beals, contributing editor
http://www.web-vantage.com/wv/970926v1.cfm
The promise of IPP is a method of printing over any platform via a browser to
printers all over the country that make themselves available to be accessed.
And if all goes as planned, we'll start seeing commercial products supporting
this protocol next year.
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You need to be a registered user to actually read the full article, so I
took the liberty to copy the text in a document called:
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/press-reports/Web-Vantage.doc
You will find that mentioning IETF and the PWG to the same person always
leads to misunderstandings! The author got some of it right though.
Carl-Uno
Carl-Uno Manros
Principal Engineer - Advanced Printing Standards - Xerox Corporation
701 S. Aviation Blvd., El Segundo, CA, M/S: ESAE-231
Phone +1-310-333 8273, Fax +1-310-333 5514
Email: manros at cp10.es.xerox.com