IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP> review of IPP documents

RE: IPP> review of IPP documents

Paul Moore (paulmo@microsoft.com)
Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:32:05 -0700

Excellent point. So why the heck are we using HTTP for IPP?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ned Freed [SMTP:Ned.Freed@innosoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 6:49 PM
> To: Keith Moore
> Cc: Paul Moore; 'Keith Moore'; ipp@pwg.org; moore@cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: IPP> review of IPP documents
>
> > You miss the point. The fact that people already have port 80 proxies
> > installed doesn't matter. There's no way that we're going to
> standardize
> > IPP on port 80 - HTTP already has that port, and IPP is a different
> > service than HTTP.
>
> > Once upon a time, a lot of people had email only access to the Internet.
> > That wasn't an good reason for forcing every service to run over email.
>
> My favorite example is email over FTP. We'd still be doing email that way
> if we hadn't deployed a new email service on a separate port.
>
> Ned