---History of IPP
The Printer Working Group (PWG), a group of experts with representation from printer and print server vendors, started the IPP project in November 1996, based on initial contributions from IBM, Novell and Xerox. The PWG earlier developed the SNMP Printer MIB and is currently working on a Job Monitoring MIB, both are IETF projects. Representatives from Adobe, IBM, Lexmark, Novell, Sun, and Xerox act as chairs, authors, and editors for the IPP project.
A birds-of-a-feather (BOF) session for IPP was held at the December 1996 meeting of the IETF which confirmed widespread interest in developing a printing protocol for the Internet. On March 6, 1997 the IESG officially chartered the new Working Group, which has already submitted a first set of Internet-Drafts on requirements, model and semantics, directory schema, security, and protocol.
The first formal meeting of the IPP Working Group was held on Tuesday April 8th at the 38th IETF meeting in Memphis, TN. It is expected that the Working Group will submit a series of IPP Request For Comment (RFC) documents to the IESG later this year for ratification as Proposed Standards.
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I had also asked about companies that wanted their names associated with the press release. This is my list so far:
Adobe IBM Lexmark Microsoft Novell Osicom/DPI SDSU/Start Tech Sun Underscore QMS Xerox
Still seems rather short, I expect that there are a few more...
Regards,
Carl-Uno
Carl-Uno Manros Principal Engineer - Advanced Printing Standards - Xerox Corporation 701 S. Aviation Blvd., El Segundo, CA, M/S: ESAE-231 Phone +1-310-333 8273, Fax +1-310-333 5514 Email: manros@cp10.es.xerox.com