IPP> RE: Mandatory Delivery Method for Notifications - Commen ts by April 15

IPP> RE: Mandatory Delivery Method for Notifications - Commen ts by April 15

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Apr 1 13:27:49 EST 2002


McDonald, Ira wrote:
> ...
> Except that most MUA's don't support S/MIME... :(
> 
> <ira>
> Good point - could we say SHOULD support use of S/MIME (RFC 2633) and/or 
> MIME with OpenPGP (RFC 3165) or SMTP over TLS (RFC 3207), all of which
> are IETF 'standards track'?
> </ira>

I'd say that that would be the best route, although the IETF might want
us to narrow the focus to one method?

> ...
> For INDP, TLS may improve security, however the current spec doesn't
> require authentication at all for incoming IPP operations, so
> encrypting the channel doesn't make INDP more secure by itself.
> 
> <ira>
> For INDP, we could say that the job submission (in IPP) SHOULD use
> TLS security and the INDP delivery SHOULD use TLS, right?
> </ira>
> 

Right.

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