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Sep 12, 2017 by Smith Kennedy
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
PWG 5100.7-2003: IPP Job Extensions
Section 5.2 needs additions to clarify meaning of "defaults" in this context

Smith Kennedy Sep 12, 2017

5100.7 section 5.2 "Job Description attributes that are defaults for the Document(s) in the Job" is prescribing that the Printer MUST use these Job Description attributes' values as the values for the corresponding Document Description attributes in the case where the Client hasn't overtly specified values for the individual Document objects in a Document creation operation. This is not clearly obvious to a reader who wasn't involved in this document's creation. The use of "default" in this context seems different than the "xxx-default" convention from RFC 8011 etc.

Add a clarifying paragraph as per Ira McDonald's recommendation that contrasts these two uses of "default"(i.e., apples and camels) so that uninitiated readers in the future may more easily be able to meet 5100.7's expectation if they are implementing an IPP Printer.