In December 2008 the G.hn standard group reached consent on a single PHY protocol for next generation wireline technologies.

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"This is the first time that the major printer manufacturers and print service providers have converged on a single printing protocol, " says Don Wright, chairman of the Printer Working Group and director of strategic and technical alliances for Lexmark, a supplier of printing products.

CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol

The argument that an ESI Protocol cannot address every single issue that may arise is not an argument to have no ESI Protocol at all.

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Integration with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories and support of single sign-on prevents employees from going rogue with shared logins.

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Further, Silk's split architecture uses a pipelined, multiplexing protocol that can send all the content over a single connection.

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The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) replaces proprietary printing services with a single method for sending print jobs from a computer to any authorized printer connected to an IP network.

CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol