Hi Jay,
I think you have overstepped the mark here.
You say that it is clear that Tom Hastings doesn't develop product.
That is at best, a half truth. Tom's closest co-workers in the Xerox
open system management community include the common client group that
I act as system architect for. Within weeks of the first version of
the Xerox Job Monitoring MIB (two years ago), our common client team
built a live prototype. Joe Filion, who offerred excellent comments
on the Printer MIB V2.0 draft recently, is a technical team leader
in our common client group. Joe, Tom, and I are in communication
every single week.
I am puzzled by your objections to the IDEA of the IETF Job Mon MIB.
After converging on how to manage a printer DEVICE (which will only
happen when the various vendors upgrade to the Printer MIB V2.0
and fix conformance problems found in the recent interop testing),
isn't the next natural thing to standardize the management of
printer JOBs?
Certainly robust job management is the single highest priority
that we hear from Xerox marketing and product planning folks, and
they're all DELIGHTED that the IETF Job Mon MIB project is in
progress and (in the view of many participants) making good
headway.
The original Printer MIB took several years to complete and
advance into the IETF standards process. And experience has
taught us all that it clearly needs refinement and clarification.
Why not ease up on Tom and the other members of the JMP?
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald (outside consultant at Xerox)
High North Inc
PO Box 221
Grand Marais, MI 49839