[IPP] IPP Everywhere and "The Great Compromise"

[IPP] IPP Everywhere and "The Great Compromise"

Rich Gray rgray at plustechnologies.com
Tue Aug 21 15:28:13 UTC 2012


"Printers MUST support X or Y and SHOULD support both."

- Rich

Petrie, Glen wrote:
> Mike (all)
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> The change below pushes the burden to the printer (at an increased cost
> to the printer) while the Client, a software entity, has less burden.
> What is wrong with
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> 1. Discovery:
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>     a. Clients MUST support DNS-SD and WS-Discovery
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>     b. Printers MUST support either DNS-SD or WS-Discovery and RECOMMENED
> to support both.
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> 2. Document Formats:
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> a.       Clients MUST support both JPEG and PWG Raster
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> b.      Printers MUST support either JPEG or PWG Raster and RECOMMENDED
> to support both.
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> This change to the printer requirements could mean a faster time to
> market since printers are already support one of the discoveries and
> documents formats but may not support both discoveries and document
> formats.
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> As was discussed in the meeting, if either discovery or document format
> change in the future, the backward compatibility burden would have to be
> on the Client to deal with legacy printers.   There 'may' be an issue of
> Client legacy but I content that is still easier to update Clients
> rather than printer firmware.   In the event of a Cloud Print Service or
> a Print Manager; then, I would assume the "RECOMMEDED" support of both
> would be implemented.
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> Glen
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> ________________________________
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> From: ipp-bounces at pwg.org [mailto:ipp-bounces at pwg.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael Sweet
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 6:42 PM
> To: ipp at pwg.org
> Subject: [IPP] IPP Everywhere and "The Great Compromise"
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> All,
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> We discussed the PWG Last Call comments received thus far at today's IPP
> WG conference call.  Two of the comments concerned the client
> requirements to support DNS-SD for discovery and both PWG Raster and
> JPEG for document formats.  After over an hour of spirited debate, the
> following "great compromise" was proposed to resolve the last call
> comments:
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> 1. Discovery:
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>     a. Printers MUST support both DNS-SD and WS-Discovery (adds
> WS-Discovery)
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>     b. Clients MUST support at least one of DNS-SD and WS-Discovery
> (Clients can choose amongst the two required protocols)
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> 2. Document Formats:
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>     a. Printers MUST support both JPEG and PWG Raster (no change)
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>     b. Clients MUST support at least one of JPEG and PWG Raster (relaxes
> conformance - previously a Client had to support both)
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> Please comment on the proposed changes.
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> _________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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