Yes it completely breaks compatability - this is why I raised the issue as
strongly as I did. I still think that the Maui decision was wrong (but that
is water under the bridge now).
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> dictionary-like capability
>
> Hi Jay and Paul,
>
> Yes, I'm interested to hear more about the 'decision' to do
> IPPv2 on XML in Maui. It sure didn't widely penetrate the
> mailing list for the rest of us people. And it sure TOTALLY
> breaks backward compatibility.
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira McDonald (High North)
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> [Jay's note]
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> Paul,
>
> Sorry, but I wasn't able to attend the Maui meeting, so perhaps
> you can clarify something about the perceptions of "IPP v2"
> for me.
>
> The way I read your message (below), IPP v2 will have a totally
> different encoding than IPP v1 (ie, non-standard BER-like
> quasi-binary encoding vs. structured text).
>
> Is this correct?
>
> ...jay
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