RFC 8010 · INTERNET STANDARD · 2017

Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport

Overview

RFC 8010, “Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport”, is an Internet Standard document published in January 2017 by M. Sweet, I. McDonald. It obsoletes RFC 2910, RFC 3382. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is an application-level protocol for distributed printing using Internet tools and technologies. This document defines the rules for encoding IPP operations, attributes, and values into the Internet MIME media type called "application/ipp". It also defines the rules for transporting a message body whose Content-Type is "application/ipp" over HTTP and/or HTTPS. The IPP data model and operation semantics are described in "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics" (RFC 8011).

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What “Internet Standard” means

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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC obsoletes
RFC 2910 RFC 3382
Other RFCs from 2017

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