IFX> Re: IPP Fax use of vCard (2.1/3.0?)

IFX> Re: IPP Fax use of vCard (2.1/3.0?)

Paul Hoffman / IMC phoffman at imc.org
Sun Aug 26 20:34:38 EDT 2001


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



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