[lsb-discuss] LSB futures tracker: Rendezvous

[Jeff Licquia]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 17:47 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> You realize of course that CUPS is just an implementation of the IPP
> (Internet Printing Protocol) protocol, which is standardized by the
> IETF and whose protocol registries are maintained by the IANA
> (Internet Assigned Number Authority), right?  

Right, but the issue with CUPS is whether the LSB should impose a
particular spooler's ABI on runtime implementations.  Must Solaris's
Linux compatibility layer, for example, include the CUPS ABI?

Ditto for Avahi: is this another case where we're imposing a
Linux-specific API on people?