IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> URL - Improved conformance for IP

Re: IPP> URL - Improved conformance for IPP URLs - 1 Feb 2001

From: don@lexmark.com
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 04:49:02 EST

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    Ira:

    Looks good to me!

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    imcdonald%sharplabs.com@interlock.lexmark.com on 02/01/2001 07:36:26 PM

    To: ipp%pwg.org@interlock.lexmark.com,
          imcdonald%crt.xerox.com@interlock.lexmark.com
    cc: (bcc: Don Wright/Lex/Lexmark)
    Subject: IPP> URL - Improved conformance for IPP URLs - 1 Feb 2001

    Hi folks, Thursday (1 February 2001)

    Based on feedback from Don Wright, Michael Sweet, and Carl Kugler (thank
    you all), an improved conformance section for the IPP URL Scheme spec:

    5. Conformance Requirements

       5.1. Conformance Requirements for IPP Clients

       IPP Clients that conform to this specification:

       a) MUST send IPP URLs (e.g., in the "printer-uri" operation attribute
          in 'Print-Job') that conform to the ABNF specified in section 4.4
          of this document;

       b) MUST send IPP operations via the port specified in the IPP URL (if
          present) or otherwise via IANA assigned well-known port 631;

       c) MUST convert IPP URLs to their corresponding HTTP URL forms
          according to the rules in section 5 'IPP URL Scheme' in
          [RFC-2910];

       d) SHOULD interoperate with IPP/1.0 Printers according to the rules
          in section 9 'Interoperability with IPP/1.0 Implementations' and
          section 9.2 'Security and URL Schemes' in [RFC-2910].

       5.2. Conformance Requirements for IPP Printers

       IPP Printers that conform to this specification:

       a) SHOULD reject received IPP URLs in "application/ipp" request
          bodies (e.g., in the "printer-uri" attribute in a 'Print-Job'
          request) that do not conform to the ABNF for IPP URLs specified in
          section 4.4 of this document;

       b) SHOULD return IPP URLs in "application/ipp" response bodies (e.g.,
          in the "job-uri" attribute in a 'Print-Job' response) that do
          conform to the ABNF for IPP URLs specified in section 4.4 of this
          document;

       c) MUST listen for IPP operations on IANA-assigned well-known port
          631, unless explicitly configured by system administrators or site
          policies;

       d) SHOULD NOT listen for IPP operations on any other port, unless
          explicitly configured by system administrators or site policies;

       e) SHOULD interoperate with IPP/1.0 Clients according to the rules in
          section 9 'Interoperability with IPP/1.0 Implementations' and
          section 9.2 'Security and URL Schemes' in [RFC-2910].

    Comments?

    Cheers,
    - Ira McDonald, consulting architect at Sharp and Xerox
      High North Inc

    PS - I've also greatly simplified the ABNF to _one_line_ taken from
    HTTP/1.1 [RFC-2616] and clarified that the 'ipp:' URL scheme can only
    be used for the [RFC-2910] mapping of the IPP model over HTTP.



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