IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> PRO - Re: Print by reference

Re: IPP> PRO - Re: Print by reference

Scott Lawrence (lawrence@agranat.com)
Thu, 05 Jun 1997 16:48:54 -0400

>>>>> "HL" == Harry Lewis <harryl@us.ibm.com> writes:

HL> As chair, I would like to hear your reasoning as to why the IPP
HL> group denies the fact that submission should be your highest
HL> priority because there is a Printer MIB available for providing
HL> device capabilities and a job MIB for monitoring the job.

Surely you are not suggesting that an IPP client implementation must
include SNMP as well as HTTP? If you thought you were getting
resistance to layering IPP on HTTP...

HL> Does IPP feel that they have failed if they do not provide a
HL> complete, end-to-end, all-in-one protocol?

For submission, including at least all negotiation required to
ensure that the submission is acceptable - yes, certainly; anything
less would be a failure.

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Scott Lawrence           EmWeb Embedded Server       <lawrence@agranat.com>
Agranat Systems, Inc.        Engineering            http://www.agranat.com/