Re: printing WG, is this group doing anything?

Steve Smith <steve@next-s.lanl.gov> Thu, 23 July 1992 15:04 UTC

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From: Steve Smith <steve@next-s.lanl.gov>
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To: Brad Clements <bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu>
Subject: Re: printing WG, is this group doing anything?
Cc: Glenn Trewitt <trewitt@pa.dec.com>, print-wg@pa.dec.com

Brad, Glenn, IETF-WG,

	I second the question.  I joined this list almost a year ago
	with the expectation that I would be finding some action.
	
	In the absence of "standards" action, we are extending de facto
	standards with no strong sense of the larger community.
	
	How many people on this list?  How many of those are invested
	in full-on network printing models?  What do we/you consider
	full-on models.
	
	Peers in this area are hard to find... I presume that this
	crowd should have a few with the interest, and perhaps even
	charter to work seriously on this problem.
	
	I believe I would have the support here to build a system to
	a spec that meets many of our requirements.
	
	I will post a summary of my position to print-wg "soon".  

	
	Brad, thanks for the wakeup call.  I wish I had sent one out
	some time back.  However, being new to this, I wanted to wait
	for someone else to stir up the action.
	
Steve Smith   sas@lanl.gov
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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