IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Security proposal

Re: IPP> Security proposal

Bob Van Andel (bva@allegrosoft.com)
Sat, 8 Nov 1997 16:41:14 -0500 (EST)

Randy,

>
> I'm wondering if we could define an *anonymous*
> authentication that clients could use and that IPP
> servers would recognize as a kind of *guest*
> authentication...this may have already been
> defined within some other security working group....
>

Why is *anonymous* printing (which is certainly a desirable case)
any different than *anonymous* Web site access?
In other words, why isn't unsecured access acceptable for this case?

Bob

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