Hi Paul,
Thanks so much for your very quick response, recommending
that the IPP Fax specs reference RFC 2426 (vCard 3.0),
rather than the older vCard 2.1.
About I-Ds, the IETF refused to charter the IPP Fax work, so it
will not be available as an Internet-Draft or a subsequent RFC.
The Printer Working Group, an industry consortium that is
part of the IEEE/ISTO industry standards program will issue
IEEE/ISTO standards with the IPP Fax work. The current URLs
are:
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/ifx-spec-06.pdf
--- (IPP Fax protocol)
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/uif-spec-06.pdf
--- (profiles of TIFF-FX with higher conformance requirements)
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hoffman / IMC [mailto:phoffman at imc.org]
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 8:35 PM
To: McDonald, Ira
Cc: ifx at pwg.org
Subject: Re: IPP Fax use of vCard (2.1/3.0?)
Greetings.
>The PWG (Printer Working Group) currently sponsors the
>IPP Fax WG, who have (largely) completed their protocol
>spec (enhancements to the base IPP/1.1 printing protocol).
>>Two new attributes in IPP Fax Jobs are:
>>5.1 ippfax-sending-user-vcard (1setOf text(MAX))
>--- operation/Job Description attribute
>>5.2 ippfax-receiving-user-vcard (text(MAX))
>--- operation/Job Description attribute
I don't see which RFC or Internet Draft has these in it. I'd like to
see the context where they are used.
>These attributes are used for banner pages and logs on the
>IPP Fax Jobs and OPTIONALLY may be used to send notifications
>(for example, via email) to Receiving Users of the completion
>of IPP Fax Jobs.
Sounds reasonable.
>Our question is should we normatively reference vCard/2.1
>(at the IMC site) or vCard/3.0 (RFC 2426, at the IETF site)?
The latter, definitely. It is a standards track document, whereas the
2.1 document is not.
>I see that there are clarifications and 'tightening of
>behavior' in RFC 2426 listed as differences from vCard/2.1.
Correct. The original vCard 2.1 spec was written by folks who were
not used to the somewhat rigorous specification requirements of the
IETF.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium