FYI,
Note that this document explicitly mentions printing.
Carl-Uno
>To: IETF-Announce:;
>Cc: http-wg at cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>From: Internet-Drafts at ns.ietf.org>Reply-to: Internet-Drafts at ns.ietf.org>Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-http-ext-mandatory-00.txt
>Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 05:20:33 PST
>Sender: cclark at cnri.reston.va.us>>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
>This draft is a work item of the HyperText Transfer Protocol Working Group
>of the IETF.
>> Title : Mandatory Extensions in HTTP
> Author(s) : P. Leach, H. Nielsen, S. Lawrence
> Filename : draft-ietf-http-ext-mandatory-00.txt
> Pages : 12
> Date : 13-Mar-98
>> HTTP is used increasingly in applications that need more facilities
> than the standard version of the protocol provides, ranging from
> distributed authoring, collaboration, and printing, to various remote
> procedure call mechanisms. This document proposes the use of a
> mandatory extension mechanism designed to address the tension between
> private agreement and public specification and to accommodate
> extension of applications such as HTTP clients, servers, and proxies.
> The proposal associates each extension with a URI[2], and use a few
> new RFC 822[1] style header fields to carry the extension identifier
> and related information between the parties involved in an extended
> transaction.
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>Carl-Uno Manros
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