>Many of us believe that a special-purpose binary encoding (eg, IPP)
>is *highly* undesirable under almost *any* circumstance. Recall
>that at the June '96 IPP meeting (Nashua), a majority of people were
>dead-set against a binary encoding of *any* kind, much less a special-=
>purpose one designed for a single application (ie, IPP).
Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems
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