Subject: Re: IPP> Consensus on sending our drafts to the IESG
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:00:23 -0500
From: Roger K Debry <rdebry@us.ibm.com>
To: <ipp-owner@pwg.org>
I agree with the majority here and believe that we should
proceed with our plans to submit our work to the IESG as it
stands.
Roger K deBry
Co-author of IPP Model and Semantics Document
Senior Technical Staff Member
Architecture and Technology
IBM Printing Systems
email: rdebry@us.ibm.com
phone: 1-303-924-4080
Carl-Uno Manros wrote:
>
> The PWG has just held a meeting on IPP. In that meeting which also had a
> phone conference, which together covered most of the active IPP
> participants, the subject of Paul Moore's and Josh Cohen's proposal to
> evaluate new alternatives for the protocol specification was discussed.
>
> Although the proposal found some support and to have some technical merit,
> it was clear that a considerable majority were not convinced that the
> solutions proposed would offer a better alternative to our current solution
> and preferred to go ahead with our current drafts without further delays.
>
> I therefore believe that we have enough consensus to proceed with our
> earlier plans to send the IPP Model & Semantics and the Protocol
> Specification drafts to the IESG with the recommendation as Proposed
> Standards, and our remaining three drafts as Informational RFCs.
>
> I wish to see your reconfirmation of this consensus expressed on the IPP DL.
>
> I plan to send the drafts to the IESG next Friday on February 6th, 1998.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carl-Uno
>
> Carl-Uno Manros
> Principal Engineer - Advanced Printing Standards - Xerox Corporation
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