The logjam ended in late June when the IETF leadership voted to make two key IPP-related documents proposed standards.

CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol

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

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

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