[462] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Updates to web pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter B. Kelley)
Wed Aug 16 12:27:31 2000
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:27:47 -0400
To: Mary Ellen Bushnell <bushnell@MIT.EDU>, printdel@MIT.EDU
From: "Peter B. Kelley" <kelley@MIT.EDU>
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Mary Ellen,
Thanks for the pointer to the web pages. I still have some questions, so
I'll add some more detail on the two subjects here.
Confidentiality of datastream
The Registrar currently prints things like Class Lists, Grade Reports,
Medical data, etc. on the "mainframe printer". The datastream goes over a
private link from the VAX to the mainframe, so there is no opportunity for
eavesdropping of the datastream while it is in transit. This private link
is scheduled to go away and we're looking for alternative technical
solutions. One solution might be shipping print files over MITnet to the
IPM platform. Unfortunately, this means that the datastream is vulnerable
to disclosure while in transit.
There has been some discussion to determine whether the transferring of
datastreams over MITnet is "good enough". I was wondering if a decision
had been reached on this issue.
Service Plan
It looks like ASST might be filling in the gap on IPM Program Product
support as well as OS support, so I'm looking to judge how much EFT is
required. I'm wondering what the phrase "test new interfaces" means. Does
this mean setting up new print queues and testing with new remote
network-based printers? Does this mean troubleshooting with clients who
are developing applications that print to IPM? Also, who handles Forms
generation and maintenance?
thanks, Pete
At 11:55 AM 08/16/2000 -0400, Mary Ellen Bushnell wrote:
>I've updated the Delivery home page w/links to Rocklyn's definitions and
>the service plan draft. Maybe some of Peter's questions w/be answered by
>the service plan (under other documents) - though I think it may still be
>kind of sketchy.
>
>ME
>
>http://web.mit.edu/is/delivery/enterprint/
>
