Hi folks, Friday (24 October 1997)
At our IPP Telecon on Wednesday (22 October), I got the action item to
write up new text for registration of MIME media type "application/ipp".
This template came from the IETF MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures
(RFC 2048, November 1996).
Note_1: We need not actually apply for registration of this media-type
until the IPP/1.0 specs are accepted by the IESG onto the 'standards
track'. The application is made by mail (see below) and need not be
supported by a separate Informational RFC.
Note_2: The 'Intended usage' of 'LIMITED USE' (rather than 'COMMON') is
based on advice earlier this month from Larry Masinter.
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald (outside consultant at Xerox)
High North Inc
PO Box 221
Grand Marais, MI 49839
906-494-2434
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To: ietf-types@iana.org
Subject: Registration of MIME media type "application/ipp"
MIME type name: application
MIME subtype name: ipp
A Content-Type of "application/ipp" indicates an Internet Printing
Protocol message body (request or response). Currently there is
one version: IPP/1.0, described in [IPP-MOD] and [IPP-PRO].
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
Encoding considerations:
IPP/1.0 protocol requests/responses MAY contain long lines and
ALWAYS contain binary data (for example attribute value lengths).
Security considerations:
IPP/1.0 protocol requests/responses do not introduce any security
risks not already inherent in underlying transport protocols.
Interoperability considerations:
IPP/1.0 requests (generated by clients) and responses (generated
by servers) MUST comply with all conformance requirements imposed
by the normative specifications [IPP-MOD] and [IPP-PRO]. Protocol
encoding rules specified in [IPP-PRO] are complete and unambiguous
so interoperability between conforming implementations is ensured
(although support for specific optional features is not ensured).
Both the "charset" and "natural-language" of all IPP/1.0 attribute
values of syntax "text" or "name" are explicit within IPP protocol
requests/responses (without recourse to any external information
in MIME, HTTP, or other message transport headers).
Published specification:
[IPP-MOD] R. deBry, T. Hastings, R. Herriot, S. Isaacson,
P. Powell, "Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics",
work in progress <draft-ietf-ipp-model-06.txt>, October 1997.
[IPP-PRO] S. Butler, R. Herriot, P. Moore, R. Turner,
"Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Protocol Specification",
work in progress <draft-ietf-ipp-protocol-02.txt>, October 1997.
Applications which use this media type:
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) print clients and print servers.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Scott A. Isaacson
Novell, Inc.
122 E 1700 S
Provo, UT 84606
Phone: 801-861-7366
Fax: 801-861-4025
Email: scott_isaacson@novell.com
or
Robert Herriot
Sun Microsystems Inc.
901 San Antonio Road, MPK-17
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Phone: 650-786-8995
Fax: 650-786-7077
Email: robert.herriot@eng.sun.com
Intended usage:
LIMITED USE
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