In a world where a growing number of devices have Internet protocol addresses, building security into these systems has never been more important.

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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.

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