This is a working group Last Call for the "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1:
Implementer's Guide". The latest version of this document has been
forwarded to the Internet Draft directory as
<draft-ietf-ipp-implementers-guide-v11-00.txt>.
PDF and Word versions of the draft are also posted at the ietf-ipp web site:
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/
The Last Call notice follows:
This is a formal request for final comments within the IETF IPP
working group for one document. The document is "Internet Printing
Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide" which is being proposed for forwarding on
to the IESG for consideration an Informational RFC to complement the
previous suite of IPP/1.1 documents. This is a working group product, and
is an update to the IPP/1.0 Implementers Guide RFC 2639.
The document has undergone considerable review and revisions during the past
month and I believe that we now have working group consensus on its
adequacy. It is recognized that this document will need to be updated with
any additional experience that we accumulate over time, but we should get
the current version out as an RFC to a wider audience at this stage.
The purpose of a working group Last Call is in the style of "speak now or
forever hold your peace" in case there are fundamental objections which have
not gotten previous or adequate discussion, or minor errors which need
correction.
Last Calls are for a minimum of 2 weeks. To give ample time for comments
and to include the next IETF meeting, the period for working group
comments will close on Friday, 12 November 1999.
The relevant document is:
Title : Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's
Guide
Author(s) : T. Hastings, C. Manros, C. Kugler, H. Holst
Filename : draft-ietf-ipp-implementers-guide-v11-00.txt
Pages : 71
Date : 06-Oct-99
This document is one of a set of documents, which together describe all
aspects of a new Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). IPP is an
application level protocol that can be used for distributed printing
using Internet tools and technologies. This document contains
information that supplements the IPP Model and Semantics [IPP-MOD] and
the IPP Transport and Encoding [IPP-PRO] documents. It is intended to
help implementers understand IPP/1.1, as well as IPP/1.0, and some of
the considerations that may assist them in the design of their client
and/or IPP object implementations. For example, a typical order of
processing requests is given, including error checking. Motivation for
some of the specification decisions is also included.
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Sincerely,
Carl-Uno Manros
Chair of IETF IPP WG
Carl-Uno Manros
Principal Engineer - Xerox Architecture Center - Xerox Corporation
701 S. Aviation Blvd., El Segundo, CA, M/S: ESAE-231
Phone +1-310-333 8273, Fax +1-310-333 5514
Email: manros@cp10.es.xerox.com