thanks for your comments and suggestions concerning this draft. There is
another related draft describing the requirements for this project under the
name:
draft-wright-ipp-req-00.txt
We are scheduled to have a BOF session in San Jose on Thursday, December 12
at 1:00 - 3:00 pm. If you can make it there, you will meet the authors and
various other people who have been involved with the project so far.
We are trying to get this established as a formal WG soon after the San Jose
meeting.
We already have a mailing list set up and you are welcome to join it, see
details below.
The following text is a draft proposal to the IETF for our WG charter. It
should contain all the info you need to get started.
---IETF Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) WG
Chair(s): Carl-Uno Manros <manros@cp10.es.xerox.com> Applications Area Director(s): Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Harald Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no> Area Advisor: TBD
Mailing List Information: General Discussion: <ipp@pwg.org> To Subscribe: <ipp-request@pwg.org> Archive: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/
Editor: Scott Isaacson <scott_isaacson@novell.com> Description of Working Group:
Internet printing involves using Internet technologies and services to find networked resources, such as printers, and then submit jobs using those resources.
The goal of this working group is to define a new application level distributed printing protocol as well as defining naming and service registration attributes for printing. The protocol shall support a global, distributed environment where print service users (clients, applications, drivers, etc.) cooperate and interact with print service providers (servers, printers, gateways, etc.).
The working group will leverage existing (and emerging) technologies for: authentication, authorization, privacy, and commercial transactions. For location of printers, the working group will leverage existing standards for directories.
The working group shall strive to coordinate its activities with other printing-related standards bodies.
The new job submission protocol should strive not to preclude any types of output devices (e.g., fax, printer, gateway). Also, the working group will define extensibility paths to maximize interoperability and minimize conflict.
The Internet Printing Protocol will be designed to make use of Web browsers, HTTP, and LDAP for directory look-ups.
The Internet Printing Protocol is intended to supplant RFC 1179 'Line Printer Daemon Protocol' as the preferred printing protocol. LPR/LPD was designed a long time ago with line printers in mind and does not fit with current needs.
Deliverables and Milestones:
Done - Mailing list and archive
November 1996 - Submit first set of Internet-Drafts December 1996 - BOF in IETF meeting in San Jose, CA, USA
March 1997 - Submit Internet-Drafts
April 1997 - Review of specification in IETF meeting in Memphis, TN, USA
May 1997 - At least 2 implemented prototypes
May 1997 - Submit document(s) to the IESG for Proposed Standard
Internet-Drafts:
IPP-requirements: draft-wright-ipp-req-00.txt IPP-draft: draft-isaacson-ipp-info-00.txt
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Regards,
Carl-Uno
Carl-Uno Manros Xerox Corporation 701 S. Aviation Blvd. M/S: ESAE-231 El Segundo, CA 90245, USA E-mail: manros@cp10.es.xerox.com