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IPP Fax Meeting #3. San Diego 12/8/00. Agenda. Progress Usage scenarios Issues from scenarios Conneg Next Close at 3.30. Progress. Meeting #1 Agreed charter Sender makes right Agreed to define at least one mandatory set of quality settings (dpi for example) Ippget shall be used.
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IPP Fax Meeting #3 San Diego 12/8/00
Agenda • Progress • Usage scenarios • Issues from scenarios • Conneg • Next • Close at 3.30
Progress • Meeting #1 • Agreed charter • Sender makes right • Agreed to define at least one mandatory set of quality settings (dpi for example) • Ippget shall be used
Progress • Meeting #2 • Agreed to split transport from data format • Data format to be called UIF (Universal Image format). Will register MIME type application/uif • Lee said “What the heck are we doing”
Schedule check • Charter + 0: Agreed charter • Charter + 3 months: Agreed requirements (San Diego 12/00) • Charter + 8 months: Agreed Specification (Toronto 06/01) • Charter + 12 months: Bake-off (09/01) • Charter + 16 months: Revised specification & possible implementors guide. (01/02)
Paul Moore Engineering Director Fax : 206 345 9821 ipp://netreon.com/ifx9 IPP://netreon.com/ifx9 Internet FAX • The good pieces of PSTN fax • Delivered there and then • Data format negotiated and optimized • On the Internet • Fast, high quality
Print anywhere • UIF driver can print to any UIF printer • Hotel, airport, business centre, … • High quality from any platform
Remote copying • Intranet • Internet (to partners) • Gang copying • Multi-vendor interop • Special sauce when single vendor
IFX Compatibility • Should IPP Fax be compatible with • IFAX • PSTN Fax • Email (may be the same as IFAX) • How thin must the gateways be? • In which direction?
Quality Issues • Minimum resolution 600dpi? • Other params (color depth)? • Main feature of IPP Fax? • Other usage models? • Speed tradeoff
Fax security • As the main reason for IPP Fax? • Big differentiator but expensive? • TLS • Client? Server? • Digital signatures • Defined suite “Secure IFX”? • Firewalls
Print anywhere • Discovery? • SSDP • SLP • LDAP • Define UIF usage with UPNP? • Ie What DocumentFormatSupported = “application/uif” means
Drawing surface issues • Defined sizes or variable • For which uses? • Clip or stretch • Horizontal and vertical • Aspect ratio
What makes IFX different • … from IPP + UIF? • Controlled public access • Identity exchange (user and device) • Limited functionality • Forwarding address • Supported • In job • Reply address • Ippget mandatory
conneg • Still no better proposal • RFC2938 simplifies syntax • IPP syntax? • Big String > 1024 • ‘paged’ in a 1setof string • HTTP get
Next • Present updated specifications • UIF support in IPP • IFX