Well we don't have a ready solution right now. But Bluetooth specifies a lot of
profiles
how to make a file transfer and so on, but no profiles of 'how to print'. I am
sure that there will
be a need to be able to print from the mobil phone and the PDA's. So we have the
chance
to do IPP more worldwide. But I am not sure that the mobil phone will contain an
full TCP/IP
stack to run on the top of Bluetooth, but I know they have a WAP stack, which
could be
used as our transport.
In i-data we trying to find out if a Bluetooth printer group exist, to find out
how far they are.
So I am not sure, if this new profile should be written by us or a Bluetooth
group.
Henrik
"Carl-Uno Manros" <carl at manros.com> on 20-04-2000 16:41:44
To: Henrik Holst/INT at i-data
cc: ipp at pwg.org
Subject: RE: IPP> IPP over other transports
Henrik,
I am trying to understand the following:
do you either:
1) have a ready solution which you would like to offer us to make into a
standard
or
2) have a nice idea which you would like help to develop before it works and
is then made into a standard?
I have nothing against making new mappings for IPP, but I would like us to
finish off the stuff we are already working on before taking on further
tasks. If there are new resources available to work on mappings to other
transports - fine. If not, I would like to hold off a little still and try
to wrap up the things we have been working on for the last year or so first.
Carl-Uno
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ipp at pwg.org [mailto:owner-ipp at pwg.org]On Behalf Of
>henrik.holst at i-data.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 1:42 AM
> To: ipp at pwg.org> Subject: IPP> IPP over other transports
>>>>> A last IPP meeting, I can see you discussed the topic 'IPP over other
> transports'
> and that Paul Moore metioned the infrared transport. In i-data we
> are working on
> the new wireless technoligy BlueTooth. I think in a few years you will not
> anymore
> see the use of infrared soulutions anymore, but it will be
> BlueTooth. Ericsson,
> Nokia
> and the PDU's are going to implement BlueTooth in their products.
> In i-data we
> are working on a LAN profile to Bluetooth as well as on a
> Printing Profile. Our
> solution for printing over Bluetooth will be to use IPP over WAP. WAP is
> implemented
> in some mobil phones today, and will be widely spread by the
> years. WAP looks
> like
> a lot like HTTP. So I think it would be interesting to run IPP on
> the top of
> WAP. You
> would then be able to print from your PDA or mobil phone.
>> Henrik
>>>