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Internet Printing Protocol/1

RFC 2910            IPP/1.1: Encoding and Transport       September 2000


   The full set of IPP documents includes:

   Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol [RFC 2567]
   Rationale for the Structure and Model and Protocol for the Internet
   Printing Protocol [RFC 2568]
   Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics [RFC 2911]
   Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport (this
   document)
   Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide [ipp-iig]
   Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols [RFC 2569]

   The document, "Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol", takes
   a broad look at distributed printing functionality, and it enumerates
   real-life scenarios that help to clarify the features that need to be
   included in a printing protocol for the Internet. It identifies
   requirements for three types of users: end users, operators, and
   administrators. It calls out a subset of end user requirements that
   are satisfied in IPP/1.1. A few OPTIONAL operator operations have
   been added to IPP/1.1.

   The document, "Rationale for the Structure and Model and Protocol for
   the Internet Printing Protocol", describes IPP from a high level
   view, defines a roadmap for the various documents that form the suite
   of IPP specification documents, and gives background and rationale
   for the IETF working group's major decisions.

   The document, "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics",
   describes a simplified model with abstract objects, their attributes,
   and their operations that are independent of encoding and transport.
   It introduces a Printer and a Job object. The Job object optionally
   supports multiple documents per Job. It also addresses security,
   internationalization, and directory issues.

   The document "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide",
   gives advice to implementers of IPP clients and IPP objects.

   The document "Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols", gives some
   advice to implementers of gateways between IPP and LPD (Line Printer
   Daemon) implementations.












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