Randy
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Martin [SMTP:jkm@underscore.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 2:53 PM
To: ipp@pwg.org
Cc: Paul Moore; 'Harry Lewis'
Subject: IPP> Does the world need a robust host-to-device
network printing protocol?
Paul Moore wrote in the "Submission vs. Monitoring and
Management"
thread:
> Now if somebody wants to have a separate debate about writing
a really
> robust protocol for interfacing to printers (and I mean the
real hardware
> not some logical abstraction) then that will suit me fine.
Lets start a new
> track and call it, say, NLS (Not LPD and SNMP). This is what I
initially
> wanted to do but could not persuade enough people.
Paul, what people were you unable to persuade? Internal
Microsoft
folks, or PWG folks, or both or what?
For fear of sounding as if I'm beating a dead horse to death:
Enterprise environments desparately need a fully functional
host-to-device protocol for network printing.
Am I alone in this belief??? (I know for a fact I am NOT
along.)
Will others in the PWG share their views using this new thread?
If this belief turns out to be a minority view, then I'd
certainly
like to know (so I can drop the subject once and for all, if
so).
...jay
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