IPP> Host to device

[Gordon, Charles]

Given that IPP is the Internet Printing Protocol, do we really need to
support anything else besides TCP/IP?  Is the IPP working group even
mandated to worry about non TCP/IP environments?


					--- Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	don at lexmark.com [SMTP:don at lexmark.com]
> Sent:	Friday, April 03, 1998 4:22 PM
> To:	rturner at sharplabs.com
> Cc:	Rdebry at Us.Ibm.Com; Ipp at pwg.org
> Subject:	RE: IPP> Host to device
> 
> 
> Randy:
> 
> My biggest concern is that your proposal is TCP/IP only.  Is does not
> solve
> the problem for printers connected to servers via:
> 
> - Parallel
> - Serial
> - USB
> - 1394
> - IPX/SPX
> - AppleTalk
> - DLC/LLC
> - etc., etc., etc.
> 
> If I'm going to use TCP/IP then I might as well go ahead with the HTTP
> based implementation.  You don't provide more status and control or
> anything else that really buys me anything other than a slightly
> lighter
> transport.  It's just not work the trouble for the return on
> investment.
> 
> Don
> 
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