[MFD] Dec. 8-9 Face-to-Face Meeting Minutes is now available

[MFD] Dec. 8-9 Face-to-Face Meeting Minutes is now available

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 22:07:17 UTC 2010


Hi Bill,

My replies are inline below.

Cheers,
- Ira


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, William Wagner <wamwagner at comcast.net>wrote:

>  Hi Ira,
>
>
>
> Quite so. But I had not entered these questions as answered since the
> responses did not appear to resolve my questions.
>
>
>
> 1.     Since from your response, a document may contain zero or one
> document ticket, and a job can contain zero or more documents, I do not see
> the error in saying that a job can contain zero or more document tickets. At
> any rate, for those who have not internalized the model, it does answer the
> question of how the document  tickets get into the service.
>
> I may misunderstand, but I think it would be misleading to say in the
> general document description that a document may contain zero or one
> document ticket since documents can exist exclusive of jobs, but I assume
> that it is only when a document is part of a job that it may contain a
> document ticket.
>
> <ira>
When using the correctly capitalized terms for
the SM *objects*, a Document object can only
be created *after* a Job object has been created
and the DocumentTicket object is optional (and
rarely used) to override the JobTicket object in
the Job object.

There is no such thing as a *lowercase* document
ticket in the Semantic Model.
</ira>

>
>
> 2.     Your response with regard to StorageMakeAndModel, although it
> appears to confirm my observation, does not address the question of what the
> reference should be. We originally had two separate elements but there
> appeared to be consensus that a single MakeAndModel element was
> reference-able. I do not recall who maintained that, but if that is so, I
> would like the reference.
>
<ira>
There is no possible public MIB general reference
for MakeAndModel (which was inherited from IPP
in SM/1.0 and was for whole Printers only).

IETF Host Resources MIB only supports ASN.1
OIDs in the ProductID textual convention used
in hrDeviceID (and elsewhere) for manufacturer
and model - these OIDs cannot be meaningfully
converted to human-readable values for make
and model.

By very loose implementation convention, most
imaging device manufacturers use sysDescr
and/or hrDeviceDescr (for hrDevicePrinter) to
include human-readable make and model - this
information cannot be parsed reliably - I have
had a long thread with HP WJA developers on
this issue.

An IEEE 1284 Device ID does include make
and model, but a separate string (at least for
the whole network device) is redundant.

For *only* two of the subunits (InputTray and
OutputTray), Printer MIB v2 includes make
and model.  So there's no public MIB source
for make and model of any other subunits.

The SM/2.0 MakeAndModel element is synthetic
and does *not* have any public MIB reference.
Whether this element is a good idea is really
questionable, IMHO.
</ira>

> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Bill Wagner
>

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