1) The solution should solve today's problems easily while potentially
making tomorrow's problem harder.
2) The solution is allowed to make today's problems harder to solve in
order to allow for the possiblity that tomorrow's problems be
easier to solve.
I favor direction #1 which implies Job-Id because I believe that new
technology is most successful when it carries along existing technology
easily. I also believe that it is not wise to make solving existing
problems substantially harder in order to achieve a payback that is not
well understood and may never happen. In my experience, when a feature
is added for some poorly understood future requirement, it is frequently
never used.
Bob Herriot
> From cmanros@cp10.es.xerox.coM Sat Aug 30 05:22:08 1997
>
> OK,
>
> ask Bob Herriot from Sun or Scott Isaacson from Novell about the details.
>
> I have actually asked that somebody posts a reply to Randy's comments, so
> that we can get the thing out of the world.
>
> Carl-Uno
>
> At 10:20 PM 8/29/97 PDT, you wrote:
> >> I tried to sell exactly the compromise that you just suggested in your
> >> previous message, but people who are closer to implementation told me that
> >> it would not work.
> >
> >Am I still toe-ing the line if I ask you who they are, so I can ask them
> >why it won't work? It would be good to get this resolved to the point
> >that there aren't any technical questions about it being the right path,
> >and I can't figure out why it doesn't work.
> >
> >That is, there are two gateway cases:
> > LPR client -(gw)-> IPP printer
> > new printer, just support LPR too
> > If you really need to map, well, you have to make up
> > LPR job IDs and keep track of the ID->URL mapping, but
> > it's a small table.
> >
> > IPP client -(gw)-> LPR printer
> > make Job URLs of the form "http://printer/LPRJOBNUMBER/nnnnn"
> > where nnnnnn is the LPR job number.
> >
> >This doesn't need any auxiliary tables.
> >
> >Larry
> >
> >
> Carl-Uno Manros
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>