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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