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>>Subject: "Asynchronous Notification"
>>Author: Philip Thambidurai at ODA-ENG
>>Date: 7/17/97 2:48 PM
>>The Requirements document states that "clients must be able to
>>request async notification for printer events such as ... job
>>completion, ..."
>>
>>Is this REALLY provided in the protocol? To me, this appears to imply
>>that when the job is completed, the printer will send a message to the
>>client (ASYNCHRONOUSLY).
>>
>>While the GetJobs response could contain a completed job list, it is
>>stricly SYNCHRONOUS ??? (relative to GetJobs request).
>>
>>Would it make sense to call it "Conditional notification" --- meaning
>>that the client could find out about job completion by issuing the
>>synchronous GetJobs, conditional on the printer still keeping track
>>of the particular completed job status.
>>