IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> MIME-types and alignment

Re: IPP> MIME-types and alignment

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:30:09 PDT

Harry, you must have missed my retraction. Clearly what I meant to say
was that the Printer MIB isn't _as_ widely deployed [as web servers
and browsers and MIME email senders and recipients].

> the author misrepresents the fact that Printer MIB Interpreter Languages
> are enumerated in the MIB and registered with IANA (on recommendation of
> the IETF) to support knowledge of the CAPABILITIES and default configuration
> of the printer - especially the notion of a default PDL for a print "channel"
> or a means of printing to the device.

Since you must be speaking from some better knowledge of the situation,
can you give any examples of clients that actually use the Printer MIB
Interpreter Languages to make some useful decision (as opposed to, say,
just displaying the information)?

Regards,

Larry

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