...jay
Carl-Uno Manros wrote:
>
> As we have seen on the list during the last week it seems that the
> recommendation from our Atlanta PWG meeting to mandate support for HTTP and
> FTP for print-by-reference is somewhat controversial.
>
> In order to settle this for version 1.0 of IPP, I would like to make the
> following proposal:
>
> 1) Do not mandate any particular scheme now. Let people implement it first
> and come back with proposals for the Draft Standards version of IPP 1.0.
>
> 2) To give the user (client) a chance to find out what the Printer supports
> in the way of URI schemes for print-by-reference, I suggest to add an
> optional multi-valued printer attribute called:
>
> "reference-uri-schemes-supported"
>
> I hope that we can quickly get agreement around this proposal so that we do
> not hold up the finalization process by debating this rather marginal
> functionality for a long time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carl-Uno
> Carl-Uno Manros
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