IPP Mail Archive: IPP> application/ipp vs. application/print-job

IPP> application/ipp vs. application/print-job

Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com)
Thu, 22 May 1997 19:56:50 -0400

Larry wrote:

>I'm dissatisfied with "application/ipp" as the name for the
>Internet media type registration, because it's somewhat
>redundant (i = internet in an internet protocol) and misdirected
>(the content is not a 'protocol', it's a description of a
>print job used in one protocol but useful possibly in others).

>So I suggest renaming it: application/print-job. That is,
>an 'application/print-job' is a description of a job that the
>sender wants the recipient to print.

Then I'd just call it "application/print".

Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems