IPP Mail Archive: New Internet-Draft Request

New Internet-Draft Request

Scott A. Isaacson (Scott_Isaacson@novell.com)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:13:59 -0700

A working group is in the process of being chartered in
the applications area to develop a protocol for Internet
printing. We have a BOF scheduled for Dec 12th in San Jose.

We have a document in the form of an Internet-Draft that we would like
to make available for that BOF. The document is a specification for the
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).

The title of that document is:

"Internet Printing Protocol - IPP/1.0"

The abstract is:

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This Internet-Draft specifies an Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). This
protocol is heavily influence by the semantic operations and attributes
defined in ISO/IEC 10175 Document Printing Application (DPA) parts 1 and
3. It also incorporates some of the implementation and interoperability
lessons learned from other printing related standards such as POSIX
System Administration - Part 4 (POSIX 1378.4) and X/Open A Printing
System Interoperability Specification(PSIS).IPP is defined as a set of
abstract data types and operations. The operations are implemented
using a simple request and response mechanism built on top of HTTP.
The abstract data types are encoded as simple ASCII text strings.The IPP
protocol covers only end user operations on basic print service objects.
Authentication is realized by mechanisms outside the scope of the
protocol, but the protocol does introduce some access control
functionality so that only authorized end users are allowed to submit print
jobs to printers whose implementation and site policy support access
control. Also, the Cancel Job operation requires some authentication so
that jobs can only be canceled by the end user who submitted the job.
Extended monitoring and management is possible through other protocols
such as the SNMP Printer MIB. In the areas where there are no existing
standards, some proposed and emerging standards are being worked
(management, security, etc.). As these services become more stable,
this document (and hence the protocol) can be updated to reflect the
integration and relationships with these other standards.
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I would like a document name assigned so that we can make
this draft available ASAP.

The authors are:

Scott A. Isaacson
Novell, Inc.
122 E 1700 S
Provo, UT 84606

Phone: 801-861-7366
Fax: 801-861-4025
EMail: scott_isaacson@novell.com

Tom Hastings
Xerox Corporation
701 S. Aviation Blvd.
El Segundo, CA 90245

Phone: 310-333-6413
Fax: 310-333-5514
EMail: hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com

Robert Herriot
Sun Microsystems Inc.
2550 Garcia Ave., MPK-17
Mountain View, CA 94043

Phone: 415-786-8995
Fax: 415-786-7077
Email: robert.herriot@eng.sun.com

Roger deBry
HUC/003G
IBM Corporation
P.O. Box 1900
Boulder, CO 80301-9191

Phone: (303) 924-4080
Fax: (303) 924-9889
Email: debry@vnet.ibm.com

Scott A. Isaacson is the editor.

Your prompt response is requested.

Thanks!

Scott

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Scott A. Isaacson
Print Services Consulting Engineer
Novell Inc., 122 E 1700 S, Provo, UT 84606
V: (801) 861-7366, (800) 453-1267 x17366
F: (801) 861-4025, E: scott_isaacson@novell.com
W: http://www.novell.com
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