>The fact that scenarios exist where security is not
>necessary, do not obviate the need for the standard
>to specify security as a requirement. Its possible
>that one of the machines in one of these scenarios
>might be moved or requested to communicate outside
>of the scenario-specific domain and we don't want
>to have to modify the configuration or install new
>software in order to interoperate.
>
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Existing Web browsers and servers make the transition from insecure
(non-SSL3) to secure (SSL3) modes and back all the time. Why can't IPP
clients dynamically negotiate those transitions for those environments
where the site configuration warrants it.
I would expect that a number of site configuration issues will be necessary
that don't require software changes to interoperate, but do require
administrative attention. Why is this different than the administrator
configuring which bin has letterhead? I'm assuming that the IPP spec
allows a printer with a single paper source to ignore multi-tray attributes.
Bob
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