Originally, the IETF thought ISPs would want to move to IPv6 to meet customer demand for new Internet addresses.
The logjam ended in late June when the IETF leadership voted to make two key IPP-related documents proposed standards.
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The IETF leadership's decision was hailed by the printer industry as an important milestone for widespread acceptance of IPP.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
Companies concerned about the privacy and security of their domain names should consider becoming an accredited registrar, the IETF's Gerck recommends.
"It's a very serious threat, " says Jeffrey Williams, an IETF member and a spokesman for INEGroup, which represents 98, 000 domain-name holders.
Final approval from the IETF on all IPP-related documents is expected to take another year, but it now appears to be a formality.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
At the IETF's 46th meeting held here last week, the 6to4 protocol garnered much attention as one solution to the chicken-and-egg problem of IPv6 migration.
The IETF's latest thinking is that corporate networks at the edge of the Internet will migrate to IPv6 first, when they start running into address shortages.
IETF's founders, to launch last year an Internet societal task force as a forum for deliberating social and economic issues thrown up by the spread of the Internet.
The 6to4 protocol is the latest in a series of tools being developed by the IETF to aid in the transition of the 'Net from IPv4 to IPv6.
The IETF approval "tells the world that IPP is to be taken seriously, " says Carl-Uno Manros, chair of the IPP working group and a principal engineer with Xerox.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
He is an active member of the Cloud Security Association, Jericho Forum, Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF), Internet and Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).
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Part of the reason for 6to4's high profile is that its authors are two IETF heavyweights: Brian Carpenter, head of the Internet Architecture Board, and Applications Area Director Keith Moore.
Standardization of IPP was slowed by clashes between the vendor-led IPP working group and the leadership of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which questioned the protocol's design, scalability and security.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
"Digital certificates are required for connection to the RRP service, but user ID and passwords are required to initiate a session, " explains Rick Wesson, an IETF member and a senior software engineer at Alice's Registry Tools.
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