Harry,
Separating the units was discussed yesterday. In fact, Mark VanderWiele
gave the strongest objection to this approach. Mark seemed to be very much
in favor of the final decision.
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 2:57 PM
To: ipp at pwg.org
Subject: RE: IPP> global media ... [put units field last]
Regarding adding units to the "self describing name"... The "advantage"
given in the phone conf analysis is...
1. Allows for the possibility of other units being introduced sometime in
the future
But I thought this was what alarmed people when we separated out the
"class".
I don't have a problem with explicitly calling out the units but I think
we should have stuck with the scheme defined in Portland... which would
look like...
class_ name_dimension_units
Indeed, all classes we are aware of today DO carry one and only one set of
units... so units are redundant. But, if it makes for more clean-cut
implementation... no problem... just stick with the syntax (underscore
separating elements of the self defining entity).
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Harry Lewis
IBM Printing Systems
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