CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Leo McLauglin/The Wollongong Group

MINUTES

Three primary tasks were discussed as objectives for the working group:


  1. A specification for LPR will be published as an RFC and submitted
     for inclusion in the standards track.  There was a divergent set of
     opinions as to what status we should suggest for LPR.
  2. A common, full featured network printing protocol was seen as a
     good, long term goal for the Internet.  Paladium, the Project
     Athena printing protocol, was suggested.  Copies of the
     specification will be made available electronically as soon as
     possible.  We are looking for comments on the Paladium protocol as
     well as other suitable printing protocols to be presented in
     Pittsburg.
  3. If this long term network printing protocol proves to be unsuitable
     for use in resource limited environments, an interim protocol
     (possibly based on LPR) may be necessary.  For example, requiring
     an RPC mechanism was viewed as unacceptable for most terminal
     server or PC DOS environments.  Further information on this topic
     is again expected to be presented in Pittsburg.

A number of other topics, including security issues and a single
'network' PostScript definition, were discussed and judged to be within
the purview of other working groups or committees.  We will follow these
discussions to present our ideas and concerns.

Administrative Details:

The mailing list of this working group is print-wg@pluto.dss.com.  We
will be meeting in Pittsburg.  A proposed charter will soon be presented
for review.


ATTENDEES


Russ Hobby                      rdhobby@ucdavis.edu (Area director)
Leo J. McLaughlin III            ljm@twg.com         (Chair)
Dave Monachello                  dave@pluto.dss.com
John Wobus                      jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu
Don Merritt                     don@brl.mil
Adrianne Glappa                  aglappa@tdd.nec.com
Brian D. Handspicker             bd



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