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An Experiment in Remote Printing
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Network Working Group M. Rose
Request for Comments: 1486 Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
C. Malamud
Internet Multicasting Service
July 1993
An Experiment in Remote Printing
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Discussion and
suggestions for improvement are requested. Please refer to the
current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the
standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction .......................................... 1
1.1 The Advantage of a General-Purpose Infrastructure..... 2
2. Procedure ............................................. 2
2.1 Naming, Addressing, and Routing ...................... 3
2.2 The application/remote-printing Content-Type ......... 4
2.3 Usage Example ........................................ 5
2.4 Remote Printing without MIME ......................... 6
3. The Experiment ........................................ 7
3.1 Infrastructure ....................................... 8
3.1.1 Zones .............................................. 8
3.1.2 MX records ......................................... 8
3.2 Accounting and Privacy ............................... 9
3.3 Mailing list ......................................... 9
3.4 Prototype Implementation ............................. 10
4. Future Issues ......................................... 11
5. Security Considerations ............................... 11
6. Acknowledgements ...................................... 11
7. References ............................................ 11
8. Authors' Addresses..................................... 12
A. The image/tiff Content-Type .......................... 13
B. Uniform Addressing ................................... 13
1. Introduction
Although electronic mail is preferable as a means of third-party
communication, in some cases it may be necessary to print
information, in hard-copy form, at a remote location. The remote
output device may consist of a standard line printer, a printer with
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