> I'm curious how this host-to-device protocol for printing would differ
> from IPP 1.0?
Jay Martin wrote:
> Excellent question. Right off the top of my head...
> For one thing, such a protocol would be one heck of a lot more
> efficient than IPP-over-HTTP. Anytime you frame bulk data within
> a transaction protocol, you lose bigtime in terms of performance.
Now, there's a lot you might say about IPP-over-HTTP, but this one makes
little sense. HTTP is used for transmitting bulk data all the time. Admittedly,
most HTTP transactions are server-to-client rather than client-to-server for
bulk data, but there's not much asymmetric in the protocol itself.