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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Glenn Trewitt/DEC
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- NPP Minutes
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- Agenda
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- o Walk through LPR/LPD Protocol draft.
- o Walk through Printer Access Protocol draft.
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- There was a lot to go through on both drafts. Either could have
- occupied the entire meeting. Because there were very few attendees
- interested in PAP, compared to LPR/LPD, we dealt only with that in the
- meeting. PAP was covered outside the meeting (actually, only Jim Jones,
- the author, and I showed up). This meeting was well-attended, and most
- of the people had read the draft before the meeting. Early preparation
- does pay off!
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- LPR/LPD Protocol Draft
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- We finally decided to make a clean break between the existing protocol
- and this specification, so it would be absolutely clear what was ``in''
- the old and new. We paid full attention to old vs. new
- interoperability issues. Specifically:
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- 1. The ``new'' features were removed from the ``old'' commands:
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- o Zero-length for data files with EOF indicated by connection
- close.
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- o Data file vs. control file ordering.
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- 2. To provide these (very needed) features, we added two new opcodes:
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- o Receive Data File With Unknown Length - receive a data file,
- terminated by connection close.
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- o Receive Control File First - receive a control file before its
- associated data files.
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- For the new commands, we defined explicit rules for how a client should
- employ them, to achieve interoperability with both old and new LPD
- daemons. The new draft will have a very solid line between ``old'' and
- ``new'' LPD features. A new draft will be available in September.
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- Printer Access Protocol
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- Most of the work here was aimed at getting everything in the document
- that was appropriate for a protocol RFC -- full information so that the
- protocol is implementable from the document, and removing
- implementation-specific verbiage. There is still significant work to do
- on this document.
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- Attendees
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- Charles Bazaar bazaar@emulex.com
- David Bridgham dab@asylum.sf.ca.us
- Philip Budne phil@shiva.com
- Cerafin Castillo cec@emulex.com
- James Jones jones@regent.enet.dec.com
- Charles Kimber ckimber@dcp.com
- Stev Knowles stev@ftp.com
- Louis Mamakos louie@ni.umd.edu
- Leo McLaughlin ljm@wco.ftp.com
- Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu
- Michael O'Dell mo@bellcore.com
- Richard Smith smiddy@pluto.dss.com
- Glenn Trewitt trewitt@nsl.dec.com
- Peter de Vries peter@wco.ftp.com
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