The IESG met earlier today and discussed the IPP charter. It decided
to approve the working group once the following changes are made to
the charter:
+ The WG has to make recommendations as to how to acheive reasonable
compatibility between ipp and lpr. IESG understands that lpr is
insufficient in its current form and basically non-extensible, that
its behavior varies widely between implementations and so does not
produce repeatable results, and that it lacks the security needed
for printing in a global Internet. However, IESG also recognizes
that lpr is widely deployed, and that a new protocol -- even a much
better one -- could be disruptive to the installed base.
+ There is a new requirement that all working group charters
explicitly address security, so we need to add this.
Just to be clear: the working group has been approved, but I have to
show that these things have been incorporated to the charter before
the group is formally created. So I'll add a paragraph or two to the
charter that reflects what IESG agreed to, and run it by the IPP
chairs before giving it to the IESG Executive Director.
> People are trying to make their reservations for Memphis and need to
> know at least which week-day that we can expect the IPP slot to be,
> as several experts will only come in for the IPP meeting rather than
> the full week. Remember that I asked you several weeks ago to get a
> slot early in the week, as we will hold an IPP meeting at the end of
> the week before the IETF in Memphis, and some people want to combine
> the two trips.
IPP is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday at 9:00 am.
Keith