Carl,
We considered your request to either add 'any' as a new out-of-band value,
or to extend the existing 'unknown' out-of-band (OOB) value to mean any.
The group agreed to add 'any', since it requires an updated client to not be
confused querying the Printer before sending the job, if the client queries
the Printer as to what it supports before sending the job. (On the other
hand, an existing client that is simply querying the Printer will become
confused by a new OOB value).
You only requested it for "document-format-supported" (for use by a Printer
object that represents a Document Repository, instead of an output device).
However, in this example you are suggesting that the OOB value could also be
used as the value of the "redirection-printers-supported" (1setOf uri)
Printer attribute, correct?
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: kugler at us.ibm.com [mailto:kugler at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 09:32
To: Michael Sweet
Cc: Hastings, Tom N; ipp at pwg.org
Subject: Re: IPP> OPS - Redirect-Job (a ka Move-Job) included in Job and
Printer Admin (Set2) spec
The Printer could return the OOB 'unknown' value in
"redirection-printers-supported" and let the client attempt a Redirect-Job
to any printer-uri. The operation will either succeed or return an error
code.
-Carl
Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com> on 07/17/2000 07:06:14 PM
To: Carl Kugler/Boulder/IBM at IBMUS
cc: "Hastings, Tom N" <hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com>, ipp at pwg.org
Subject: Re: IPP> OPS - Redirect-Job (a ka Move-Job) included in Job and
Printer Admin (Set2) spec
kugler at us.ibm.com wrote:
> ...
> It's an implementation detail whether or not the
> "redirection-printers-supported" are on the same server. You only
> need to specify the protocol. If an implementation can meet the
> spec, it doesn't matter how it does it. You don't need to specify
> ...
But this brings up the issue of how we specify "all" servers,
i.e. we don't want to enumerate every printer-uri on the planet,
do we? :)
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