Ira,
> Why are we shooting ourselves in the foot and precluding
> clients incapable of using INDP from receiving full-function
> IPP notifications?
Ah, spoken like a true engineer... ;-)
Let me ask the question another way, then:
What kinds of IPP notifications are not WELL handled
by simple plain text email messages?
Please be as specific as you can, expressing the situation
in real-world use cases (and not simply citing chapter-and-verse
from the IPP spec).
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To everyone else on this list:
Do my comments on this thread sound like plain ranting?
Am I entirely off-base here, or what? Please speak up,
as I grow increasingly weary of conducting these trials
and tribulations with the same old Usual Suspects. ;-)
And lest anyone misinterpret my position, let me say that
I wish we could all have neat, cool, real-time binary stuff
flowing between consumer and provider, regardless of the
specific application. That would be a Good Thing, causing
a wonderful User Experience.
However, the many arrows in this engineer's back has caused
him to become (dare I say?) a Realist with regard to the
business case.
Making a subsystem so gosh darn complex--just to have that
capability--yet totally ignore the real-world business case
is wholey inappropriate and irresponsible.
My $0.02 worth, of course. Now let's hear from the Silent Majority, ok?
...jay