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

Hapeman Dale wrote:
> 
> 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.

Not necessarily.  It is not unreasonable to consider extending the TLS
protocol to better support delegation.  This is not a problem that is
specific to IPP.

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