Bob Herriot
> From ipp-owner@pwg.org Fri Jan 9 10:42:58 1998
> From: Paul Moore <paulmo@microsoft.com>
> To: "'ipp@pwg.org'" <ipp@pwg.org>
> Subject: IPP> Delay of IPP ratification
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:21:33 -0800
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> This is a formal request that we delay the finalization of the IPP spec
> until we have looked at the possibility of using XML as the protocol format.
>
> I know this is revisiting an old issue but we need to make sure we do the
> right thing. When the current format was proposed there was no good method
> for representing structured data in an ASCII data stream. XML is now
> available and seem to be the coming wave. I also know that most of the new
> standards that will come out over the next year will be based around XML
> (and protocol specific HTTP commands). By ensuring that we are in the centre
> of these standards we will be able to leverage many common tools that will
> emerge to support and manage these protocols.
>
> There will definitely be down-sides so we need to debate this issue - not
> least the investment that some of us have already made in building using the
> current spec.
>
> I think that somebody from MS will be in Hawaii.
>
> Paul Moore
>