Re: TLS extension to support print-by-reference.

All,

There is a mail list for discussing the use of TLS to provide security 
services to applications.  It is at <[email protected]>.  This topic 
sounds like a perfect use of THAT list.

The TLS protocol should not be EXTENDED to support IPP, it might be valuable 
as a secure transport mechanism and could therefore be USED as a tool to 
support IPP.  From the view of TLS, there is one connection from the client 
to the printer and one connection from the printer to the file server.  The 
fact that the client has to prove to the file server that it is OK for this 
printer to come and get this file is handled by some protocol that rides 
through a couple of TLS-secured pipes.

Dale
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>From: Ran Canetti
>To: ietf-tls
>Subject: Re: TLS extension to support print-by-reference.
>Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 10:06PM
>
>Indeed, this is a special case of delegation.
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>Ran
>
>Tom Weinstein wrote:
>
>>
>> Daniel Manchala wrote:
>> >
>> > Back at the Washington IETF, we had a little discussion on how TLS
>> > protocol could be extended to support print-by-reference for the 
Internet
>> > Print Protocol (IPP). I am including a typical application scenario of
>> > print-by-reference. Has anyone already thought about making an extended
>> > TLS protocol to support this? Is anyone working on this already? We are
>> > planning to write a protocol based on this scenario.
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>> There are some aspects of delegation that would be better adressed by the
>> PKIX working group.  I'm not sure if they've thought much about the
>> problem.  Perhaps someone who follows PKIX more closely can fill us in?
>>
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