As we have seen on the list during the last week it seems that the
recommendation from our Atlanta PWG meeting to mandate support for HTTP and
FTP for print-by-reference is somewhat controversial.
In order to settle this for version 1.0 of IPP, I would like to make the
following proposal:
1) Do not mandate any particular scheme now. Let people implement it first
and come back with proposals for the Draft Standards version of IPP 1.0.
2) To give the user (client) a chance to find out what the Printer supports
in the way of URI schemes for print-by-reference, I suggest to add an
optional multi-valued printer attribute called:
"reference-uri-schemes-supported"
I hope that we can quickly get agreement around this proposal so that we do
not hold up the finalization process by debating this rather marginal
functionality for a long time.
Regards,
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