At 13:46 09/20/96 PDT, JK Martin wrote:
>Don,
>
>After spending considerable time on the IEEE 1284.1 TIPSI spec,
>I was very much looking forward to reviewing the public comments
>that resulted from the IEEE ballot process.
>
>As it currently stands within the general printing industry,
>IEEE 1284.1 (TIPSI) is the only network printing protocol that
>can be considered truly standard (and open).
ISO 10175 Document Printing Application (DPA) was approved as an ISO standard
in the Spring of 1996, so it is already a network printing protocol
that is truly standard (and open). DPA is not going through the final
stages of reviewing public comments. That happened several years ago
and the document took a year or more to incorporate the comments.
These comments were submitted by companies implementing the drafts.
At present ISO DPA is implemented in a number of products: IBM's PSM,
Digital/Sun/Xerox Printxchange, Novell's NDPS, DAZEL's DAZEL, as well as
a pulic domain prototype implemenation at MIT, called MIT Palladium,
which should still be available via FTP from athena.mit.edu. See the
/dpa subdirectory on the ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/snmpmib/dpa/ for
information.
When TIPSI is finished with its public comment period and the comments
have been incorporated in IEEE 1284.1 then TIPSI can join the ranks
with ISO DPA as a "network printing protocol that can be considered truly
standard (and open)."
Tom
P.S. I also favor moving the TIPSI review to Wednesday so that more PWG
folks can participate.
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