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Network Working Group                                        T. Hastings
Request for Comments: 2639                                     C. Manros
Category: Informational                                Xerox Corporation
                                                               July 1999


          Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Implementer's Guide

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   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 [RFC 2566]
   and the IPP Transport and Encoding [RFC 2565] documents.  It is
   intended to help implementers understand 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.

   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/1.0: Model and Semantics [RFC 2566]
     Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Encoding and Transport [RFC 2565]
     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





Hastings & Manros            Informational
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