Hi Mike,
+1
Cheers,
- Ira
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 8:48 AM Michael Sweet via ipp <ipp at pwg.org> wrote:
> All,
>> I was looking for a place to report a printer's hardware serial number and
> noticed that we never defined one for an IPP Printer object, just the
> System object (where it is OPTIONAL).
>> I propose we add this to NODRIVER. Based on the text in the IPP System
> Service specification this would look something like the following:
>> 6.7.N printer-serial-number (text(255))
>> This RECOMMENDED attribute provides the serial number for the Printer and
> is semantically equivalent to the prtGeneralSerialNumber element defined
> in [RFC3805].
>>> I'm proposing this as RECOMMENDED since a) why define it if we don't want
> it implemented, and b) because not every Printer is backed by a hardware
> output device and so won't necessarily have a serial number to report.
>> This sort of information is commonly available via printer
> drivers/utilities (for support purposes) and so it fits with the focus of
> NODRIVER.
>> Thoughts?
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