CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Leo McLauglin/The Wollongong Group MINUTES Three primary tasks were discussed as objectives for the working group: 1. A specification for LPR will be published as an RFC and submitted for inclusion in the standards track. There was a divergent set of opinions as to what status we should suggest for LPR. 2. A common, full featured network printing protocol was seen as a good, long term goal for the Internet. Paladium, the Project Athena printing protocol, was suggested. Copies of the specification will be made available electronically as soon as possible. We are looking for comments on the Paladium protocol as well as other suitable printing protocols to be presented in Pittsburg. 3. If this long term network printing protocol proves to be unsuitable for use in resource limited environments, an interim protocol (possibly based on LPR) may be necessary. For example, requiring an RPC mechanism was viewed as unacceptable for most terminal server or PC DOS environments. Further information on this topic is again expected to be presented in Pittsburg. A number of other topics, including security issues and a single 'network' PostScript definition, were discussed and judged to be within the purview of other working groups or committees. We will follow these discussions to present our ideas and concerns. Administrative Details: The mailing list of this working group is print-wg@pluto.dss.com. We will be meeting in Pittsburg. A proposed charter will soon be presented for review. ATTENDEES Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu (Area director) Leo J. McLaughlin III ljm@twg.com (Chair) Dave Monachello dave@pluto.dss.com John Wobus jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu Don Merritt don@brl.mil Adrianne Glappa aglappa@tdd.nec.com Brian D. Handspicker bd 1