Minutes from the IPP WG Meeting at IETF42 - August 26, 1998 - Chicago

The meeting was attended by 29 people.

Notes were taken by Scott Isaacson. 

Agenda:

- Short history of the project (presentation by Carl-Uno Manros)
- Information about upcoming test event for IPP (presentation by Carl-Uno Manros)
- Security parameters in the ipp:// URL scheme (presentation and discussion led 
by John Wenn)
- Similarities and differences between IPP and IFax (discussion led by 
Larry Masinter)

A short history and overview of the project was presented by the chair. 
(see slides for further details)

11/97 -	IPP drafts refined, 5 major documents
12/97 - 	IPP WG Last Call
1/98   - 	Edits to WG drafts
2/98   - 	Drafts submitted to IESG
5/98   - 	Comments from Area Director
8/98   - 	Still waiting for final feedback from IESG

The chair informed about an upcoming IPP test event on September 23-25. So far, 
16 organizations have signed up for this inter-operability event. The testing will be 
based on the current IPP drafts from June 30, 1998. See slides for further details.

The most important agenda point was a presentation by John Wenn on how to build 
in a security parameter in the ipp:// scheme and mapping of that to the HTTP Upgrade 
parameter. With the subsequent documentation of this solution, which has been 
validated with the TLS and HTTP groups, it is believed that all known issues raised 
by the IESG have been addressed by the IPP WG. It was pointed out during the 
discussion of the solution that we need multiple values for security mechanisms used, 
as e.g. TLS and Digest Authentication may both be used together. This will be fixed 
in the next draft. There were no comments on the current draft 
<draft-ietf-ipp-ipp-scheme-00.txt>. Also see slides for further details.

Larry Masinter led a discussion on interoperability between IPP and IFax.  There 
seemed to be sufficient interest in this subject to justify writing an informational 
document that gives advice to implementors of IPP/Ifax gateways or implementation 
of both protocols in the same system or device.  One person offered to become the 
editor of such a document. It is not planned to introduce this subject as an official part 
of either the IPP or IFax WGs charter, but it is expected to be developed in collaboration 
between these two groups. See slides for further details. 

Meeting adjourned early.