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<html> I agree that there is no guarantee that "printer-name" values are unique even within a domain, but they should be unique as a practical matter so that a user can uniquely identify a printer by its "printer-name" instead of the URL, at least in a local context. There remains the issue of how does anyone determine if two separate SLP entries (with different URLs) represent the same output device. I am suggesting using a convention that a "printer-name" qualified by a domain name and SLP scope uniquely identifies a printer. Bob Herriot At 05:02 PM 1/4/99 , Manros, Carl-Uno B wrote: >Bob, > >I welcome this attempt to get a simpler SLP solution and in practice I think >we will find few printers that have more than one URI. >However, your assumption in a) that you could use 'printer-name' to find out >whether a printer has several URIs does not >seem correct. There is no guarantee that "printer-name' values are unique, >even within the same domain (at least not according to IPP). > >Carl-Uno > >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Herriot [<a href="mailto:robert.herriot@Eng.Sun.COM%5D" eudora="autourl">mailto:robert.herriot@Eng.Sun.COM]</a> >Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 4:38 PM >To: Ira McDonald; imcdonal@sdsp.mc.xerox.com; ipp@pwg.org; srvloc@srvloc.org >Subject: Re: IPP> Revised SLP 'printer:' template for comments > > >At our Tucson meeting, the IPP group agreed with James Kempf that there >should be a separate SLP entry for each URI and that the URI associated with > >the entry would be the printer's URI.  Ira, I know that you disagreed with >this direction. > >If we stay with this decision, it implies to me that there is >   a)  no need for the 'printer-uri-supported' attribute in the template. It >can be >        determined by finding all URI's containing a 'printer-name' with a >particular value. >   b)  'uri-security-supported' contains the security supported for the >associated URI and >        not for other URIs associated with a printer. >   c)  the complexity of two parallel attributes is eliminated. > >Bob Herriot > </html>