IPP Mail Archive: FW: IPP> NOT - device-to-host events, not end-user events

FW: IPP> NOT - device-to-host events, not end-user events

Turner, Randy (rturner@sharplabs.com)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:30:35 -0800

-----Original Message-----
From: Turner, Randy
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 1:30 PM
To: 'Jay Martin'
Subject: RE: IPP> NOT - device-to-host events, not end-user
events

I agree with Jay completely. It would be very difficult for me to agree
any more on this....but I'll try. ;)

Randy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Martin [SMTP:jkm@underscore.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 10:43 AM
To: Tom Hastings
Cc: ipp@pwg.org
Subject: Re: IPP> NOT - device-to-host events, not
end-user events

Tom Hastings wrote:
>
> In discussing the host-to-device requirements, we came up with
a requirement
> that the printer be able to feed back information about
whether it was
> choked up with data or needed more data for the current job.
>
> So we could have events like:
>
> Slow down data transfer
> Speed up data transfer

This doesn't quite sound right. I mean, flow control should be
mandated
by the underlying transport, right? We certainly don't want to
reinvent
such a key aspect of end-to-end communications within IPP.

...jay

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