IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> PRO,MOD> User model for clients

Re: IPP> PRO,MOD> User model for clients

Randy Turner (rturner@sharplabs.com)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:02:06 -0800

To summarize alot of the debate about the use of HTTP for an
IPP transport, my overall opinion is that if the only real
rationale we have for using it is to more easily slip through
firewalls, then I would be dead set against using it because
technically that argument won't hold water, given that we also
have to make some compromises for using HTTP.

However, if there are real compelling reasons that relate to
interoperability or the fact that we can leverage some part of
the HTTP-based WEB for some real functional advantage over
"rolling our own", then I'm all for it. Actually, for purposes
of getting something done in a timely fashion, I think designing
IPP is the hard part; the selection of a transport would have no
real impact on the timeliness of getting the work done.

-- 
Randy Turner
Network Architect
Sharp Laboratories of America
rturner@sharplabs.com