A new version of the WebDAV event notifications has just come out. We
should take a new look at this as a possible candidate delivery mechanism
for IPP notifications using HTTP.
Carl-Uno
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>This draft is a work item of the WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning
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> Title : Requirements for Event Notification Protocol
> Author(s) : M. Fisher, S. Reddy
> Filename : draft-ietf-webdav-enpreq-01.txt
> Pages : 7
> Date : 05-May-98
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> This document describes the requirements for an Event Notification
> Protocol. The objective is to provide a simple, scalable and highly
> efficient notification protocol while also providing the appropriate
> flexibility to meet the needs of both the Internet and enterprise
> environments. Intent of this document is to collect all notification
> requirements in one place and leverage the work already done in other
> working groups.
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> This document is one of a set of documents which together describe
> all aspects of a new Event Notification Protocol (ENP). ENP is an
> application level protocol that can be used for distributed event
> notification. The full set of ENP documents include:
>
> (1). Requirements for Event Notification Protocol
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> (2). Model and Semantics Event Notification Protocol
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> (3). Protocol Specification for Event Notification Protocol
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> (4). Rationale for the Structure and Model for the Event
> Notification Protocol
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Carl-Uno Manros
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