That's not the way IESG sees it. IPP is chartered to develop a protocol.
If you are having problems that no other working group is having,
because you're layering over http, maybe you're taking the wrong approach.
> Point any lan sniffer at an
> IPP exchange and ask it what the protocol is - it will say its HTTP.
This could be considered a bug with IPP.
> The argument you are using would say that SMTP is not TCP/IP.
> IPP is layered on top of HTTP - same way that form-based upload is.
HTTP is an application by itself. TCP/IP is not.
IPP is trying to layer one application on top of another.
Keith