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more convenient access the JDF 1.3 Specification and ICS
documents (see Products on this web site).

He wrote an article on JDF for the March 2004 issue of American
Printer and he has talked about JDF at Webinars. While at Xerox,
he worked on the initial development of Digital Printing for JDF in
2000 and on its relationship to PODi’s PPML. While at Xerox and
Sun Microsystems, he co-designed Java Print APIs which is now in
J2SE and Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) which most printers and
operating systems now support. He is the author of 9 IETF RFCs
including RFC 3391, which defines a new way for packaging data,
such as XML with attachments. Earlier in his career he was a
Computer Science Professor at the University of Washington in
Seattle. Robert received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the
University of Wisconsin, a bachelors in mathematics from Stanford
University, and a premier degré in French with a minor in German
and Russian from the Université de Grenoble, France. He lives in
Palo Alto, a city within the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

Dr. Herriot's article about JDF for the March, 2004 issue of
American Printer is entitled "Introducing Process Automation:
Making sense of JDF, CIM and what to do with it" (http://images.
industryclick.com/files/22/APCIMpt.1.pdf)
About Us
Dr. Robert Herriot has worked on numerous
printing related issues for more than 15 years.
He has served as a software engineer,
technical lead and project manager for many
software projects over the years. He is currently
the editor for the JDF 1.3 Specification and the
editor of all JDF ICS documents. He is also the
developer of the Allegro software that provides.