IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP> MOD/PRO - simple proposal for providing dictionary-like

RE: IPP> MOD/PRO - simple proposal for providing dictionary-like

Paul Moore (paulmo@microsoft.com)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 16:15:48 -0800

As I said below - this was an informal consensus. Everybody I spoke to about
it said that they thought that we would have to do XML to handle things like
dictionaries, etc.

Yes it completely breaks compatability - this is why I raised the issue as
strongly as I did. I still think that the Maui decision was wrong (but that
is water under the bridge now).

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> dictionary-like capability
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> Hi Jay and Paul,
>
> Yes, I'm interested to hear more about the 'decision' to do
> IPPv2 on XML in Maui. It sure didn't widely penetrate the
> mailing list for the rest of us people. And it sure TOTALLY
> breaks backward compatibility.
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira McDonald (High North)
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> [Jay's note]
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> From: Jay Martin <jkm@underscore.com>
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> Subject: Re: IPP> MOD/PRO - simple proposal for providing dictionary-like
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> Paul,
>
> Sorry, but I wasn't able to attend the Maui meeting, so perhaps
> you can clarify something about the perceptions of "IPP v2"
> for me.
>
> The way I read your message (below), IPP v2 will have a totally
> different encoding than IPP v1 (ie, non-standard BER-like
> quasi-binary encoding vs. structured text).
>
> Is this correct?
>
> ...jay
>
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