[IPP] Error in IANA registration for number-up-supported

[IPP] Error in IANA registration for number-up-supported

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Sep 15 21:23:45 UTC 2011


On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Ira McDonald wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Right - I checked RFC 2911 and there aren't any other IPP/1.1 
> xxx-supported attributes with strange complex datatypes - just 
> the usual keyword or name stuff.
> 
> Searching the IANA registry seems the best way to look for other 
> quirks - I think we avoided strange complex datatypes for other
> xxx-supported in the later IETF/PWG IPP specs.
> 
> Note that PWG SM XML schema discarded this strange type
> for Capabilities.NumberUp (it's just a set of discrete integers,
> no ranges allowed).

Yeah, not much to gain from using rangeOfInteger with number-up...

I have a related issue I want to bring up, but in a separate email thread...

> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
> 
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> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> Ira,
> 
> I've been doing that as I go through the new-and-improved IPP conformance tests; this is the only one I saw for the required IPP/1.1, 2.0, 2.1, or 2.2 printer attributes.
> 
> On Sep 14, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Ira McDonald wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mike,
>> 
>> Yes - it looks like a bug to me too.
>> 
>> We should look through RFC 2911 to see if there are other
>> complex "xxx-supported" capabilities attributes that didn't
>> get originally registered correctly in IANA IPP Registry.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> - Ira
>> 
>> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
>> Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
>> Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG IPP WG
>> Chair - TCG Embedded Systems Hardcopy SWG
>> IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
>> Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
>> http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic
>> http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
>> mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com
>> Christmas through April:
>>   579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176
>>   734-944-0094
>> May to Christmas:
>>   PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839
>>   906-494-2434
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>> All (particularly Ira... :),
>> 
>> Looks like the IANA registration for number-up-supported is messed up. It currently just says:
>> 
>> Job Template	 number-up-supported			 integer(1:MAX)	 [RFC2911]
>> but it should be:
>> 
>> Job Template	 number-up-supported			 1setOf (integer(1:MAX) | rangeOfInteger(1:MAX))	 [RFC2911]
>> 
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