Re: IPP> regarding "ipp:" (I spoke too soon...)

[Robert Herriot <[e-mail]>]

Keith,

SWAP (http://people.netscape.com/kswenson/SWAP/charter.html )
is a project with much similarity to IPP.  

It uses HTTP, but has special methods and encodes its parameters in XML.
It is for workflow management, but it has a set of operations that are 
rather similar to IPP (see below).  The SWAP web page list you, Keith Moore, 
as one of the area directors.

The following text comes from the SWAP charter:

   "The purpose of working group is to provide a simple HTTP based way to 
   invoke, monitor, control, and be informed about a generic asynchronous 
   service. 

   The protocol defines: 

        ·       a standard way to invoke a generic service, which returns an
instance ID 

   Then, using the ID, the protocol defines how to 

        ·       get the current status of that instance of the service, 
        ·       give that instance of the service data values 
        ·       pause or resume that instance of the service 
        ·       retrieve preliminary results of that instance of the service 
        ·       register an address to receive event notifications from the
service 
        ·       receive events from that instance of the service "

What are your thoughts about SWAP?  Are they going to be allowed to 
use an http scheme? 

Bob Herriot