Re: Requirements for a network printing environment (long?)
Steve Smith <steve@next-s.lanl.gov> Fri, 24 July 1992 18:08 UTC
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From: Steve Smith <steve@next-s.lanl.gov>
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To: Brad Clements <bkc@murkworks.com>
Subject: Re: Requirements for a network printing environment (long?)
Cc: Steve Smith <steve@next-s.lanl.gov>, print-wg@pa.dec.com
Brad, Thanks for your comments, and especially the reality check on what happens with commitees, working groups and "grand designs". Part of my reason for casting my ideas upon the IETF waters is that in my own environment I have little interest in the details or interest only in the details. Management just wants it all to work up to an ill-defined and traveling spec. The worker bees just want it to do what they want it to do and to hell with everybody else. My implementers just want it to be "doable", "the design should only be as big as the resource to implement it". All very valid positions and points. The IETF print-wg clearly has put some miles on this effort and has found some of the pitfalls of standards and the like. I agree. I'm not sure I am looking for a place to spend more precious energy but I AM looking for a place to share ideas and develop synergistic relationships and the like. I am stuck on any formal proposals... I have a number of assigned ones on the table right now but the audiences are radically different than the IETF. Would the IETF print-wg want me to make a proposal to them? What would that entail? What would you want? What would that commit me to? What I am currently delivering includes: "Network Printing Strategy for ICN2" (a high-level design for printing within the context of our local network(s)), and "Network Output Strategies" (a high-level design for output of electronic information throughout the laboratory, including traditional graphic arts, library needs, facilities management and GIS map generation, et cetera). These are both targeted at specific management groups and are twisted to their needs. Attaching something intended for a more general audience (such as yourselves) or something generated under joint collaboration would be good for both of the above efforts. Anyone interested in this? Who all is active on this list and cares about these issues? Is everyone worrying only the spooler issues? Can we let go of the spooler concept and embrace a more serious "print server" model? - Steve
- Re: Requirements for a network printing environme… Steve Smith
- Re: Requirements for a network printing environme… Brad Clements