IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> review of IPP documents

Re: IPP> review of IPP documents

Ned Freed (Ned.Freed@innosoft.com)
Fri, 29 May 1998 18:49:12 -0700 (PDT)

> You miss the point. The fact that people already have port 80 proxies
> installed doesn't matter. There's no way that we're going to standardize
> IPP on port 80 - HTTP already has that port, and IPP is a different
> service than HTTP.

> Once upon a time, a lot of people had email only access to the Internet.
> That wasn't an good reason for forcing every service to run over email.

My favorite example is email over FTP. We'd still be doing email that way
if we hadn't deployed a new email service on a separate port.

Ned