IPP> Minutes of IPP Weekly Conference call - Nove. 12, 1997

IPP> Minutes of IPP Weekly Conference call - Nove. 12, 1997

Tom Hastings hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com
Thu Nov 13 20:10:19 EST 1997


Let me try to explain what we meant by:
6) An administrator must be able to configure the security options.




Support of http 1.1 is MANDATORY and implementation of TLS/SSL is OPTIONAL.


But some customers may want to have a secure-only printer.


Therefore, an implementor MUST NOT build a secure-only printer, but
MUST allow the administrator (the customer) to be able to configure
the Printer to be secure-only.


Its like requiring TV manufacturers who choose to make a color TV 
set to make sure that that color set also accepts black and white.
We are not allowing color-only sets.


Does this help?


Tom




At 08:19 11/13/1997 PST, Jay Martin wrote:
>Roger K Debry wrote:
>
>> Xavier Riley discussed his email outlining two approaches to handling
>> security for IPP. There was a lot of good discussion on this topic with
>> the following agreement:
>> 
>> [...snip...]
>> 
>>  6) An administrator must be able to configure the security options.
>
>What exactly is the significance of this statement?  That is, what
>kinds of thoughts were offered during the telecom regarding expected
>methods for "configuring" the "security options"?
>
>This is not a challenge, but rather a request for clarification.  It
>would seem obvious (to some, anyway) that of course the administrator
>must be able to configure a target element.  But why mention this fact
>in a list in which the other items are far more detailed?
>
>	...jay
>
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