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From: pedersen@philmtl.philips.ca (Paul Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Remote Printer Access protocol?
Message-ID: <702@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 14 Sep 89 13:09:22 GMT
References: <814@maxim.erbe.se>
Reply-To: pedersen@philmtl.philips.ca (Paul Pedersen)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. -  St. Laurent  P.Q., Canada
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In article <814@maxim.erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
>(Strange. Nobody seems to have been thinnking of this before. Still, it's
>one of the more common uses of networks.)
>
>Is there anybody who knows if there exists such a thing like a Remote
>Printer Access Protocol or something like that in the TCP/IP or ISO
>world?
>
>-- 
>          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
>	  ERBE DATA AB


I just received this morning (coincidence ?) the following documents :

   ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18 N1990 : DP 10175-1
                             "Information Processing - Text Communication -
                              Document Printing Application -
                              Part 1: Abstract Service Definition 
                                      and Procedures"

   ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18 N1990 : DP 10175-2
                             "Information Processing - Text Communication -
                              Document Printing Application -
                              Part 2: Protocol Specification"


Both together total 210 pages.  These are not standards yet
(DP = Draft Proposal) but presumably will be sooner or later. It has just
been distributed for SC18 ballot (why I got it). SC18 WG4 is responsible,
I'm in WG3 so can't really tell you more about it, you can probably get a
copy from your national ISO member body.

Hope this helps  :-)

Paul