“After more than a year of delays, the Internet engineering
community has given the green light to an emerging technology that
simplifies local network printing and enables remote printing over
the ‘Net.”
“The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) replaces proprietary
printing services with a single method for sending print jobs from
a computer to any authorized printer connected to an IP network.
Under development since 1996, IPP has the support of more than 25
companies, including Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Xerox, Lexmark and
Hewlett-Packard.”
“Standardization of IPP was slowed by clashes between the
vendor-led IPP working group and the leadership of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), which questioned the protocol’s
design, scalability and security. The logjam ended in late June
when the IETF leadership voted to make two key IPP-related
documents proposed standards.”