Here are the notes that Scott sent out on the morning of the PWG meeting
in San Diego (boy, is that ever prompt minute-taking).
I'm also sending them out again in hopes to get some e-mail discussion going.
Tom
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At 11:49 08/29/96 PDT, you wrote:
>There was a discussion on the morning of 8/29 at the PWG meeting in
>San Diego about "Internet Printing"
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>Scott Isaacson led a discussion that identified several areas that are
>included under the very large and very vague umbrella of "Internet
>Printing". The industry is moving fast with new products and new ideas.
>Some of the major issues and sub-areas identified are:
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>- W3C conference in April 96 on High Quality Printing on the WEB: The
>topics seemed to cover fonts, color spaces, need for printing, paperless
>society, etc.
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>- WEB based Printer Management: Some vendors have products or
>announced products that support browser-based management and
>configuration. The WBEM effort is focused on using HTML/HTTP/HMML
>to provide Web Page views of management utilities and devices on top of
>existing management tools and protocols (providing a Web page view of
>printer MIBs??).
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>- Finding/Locating/Identifying printers
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>- Application printing
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>- Printing to URLs
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>- Security: How to leverage authentication, access control, and
>encryption services
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>- Other Related Standards/Working Groups:
> 1. TR29 Fax
> 2. Potential IETF working group (Dec 1996) on printing via e-mail
> MIME types
> 3. TPC.INT prototypes
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>- Changing infrastucture based on Internet/Intranet explosion
> 1. Fax works since "everyone has a phone"
> 2. Is internet printing a reality since now "everyone has a browser"
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>- Any effort applied in this area must:
> 1. Try to harmonize with other efforts
> 2. Architect and Layer correctly to leverage exising standards and
> avoid re-inventing
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>- For enabling commerce:
> security, accounting, contract negotiation, quality of service
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