[IPP] proposed mods to IPP everywhere spec (per my action item)

[IPP] proposed mods to IPP everywhere spec (per my action item)

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Apr 9 17:59:30 UTC 2012


Randy,

Thanks for the text.  Comments below.

On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Randy Turner wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Proposed mods for wd-ippeve10-20120201:
> 
> 4.2.2 Geo-Location (LOC)
> 
> Site administrators MUST (should this be a "SHOULD" ?) publish LOC records (RFC 1876) to provide the physical location of a printer. 
> 
> 4.2.3 Service Information (TXT)
> Site administrators MUST publish ("SHOULD" ?)….
> 
> 
> This document is placing requirements on devices for future compliance with an IPP everywhere standard -- however, DNS requirements are NOT requirements placed on a device, but rather administrative requirements for the site DNS -- so I'm not sure that 4.2.2 and 4.2.3 belong in this document.

Multicast DNS (part of Bonjour, and a perennial draft awaiting love from the IETF DNS WG) is not managed by site administrators and is part of IPP Everywhere.

Also, printers *can* register their own DNS records with traditional DNS infrastructure using dynamic DNS updates (RFC 2136) and many already have support for this...

Anyways, I am happy to note that these are requirements for Multicast DNS and recommendations for traditional DNS.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair


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