[MFD] Internationalization Considerations for MFD Requirements document

[MFD] Internationalization Considerations for MFD Requirements document

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 18:07:54 UTC 2010


Hi Bill,

Your proposed wording for I18N section is fine.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Co-Chair - TCG Hardcopy WG
IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:30 PM, William Wagner <wamwagner at comcast.net> wrote:
> Ira,
>
> I am confounded by the use of the term "future Imaging Services". For
> simplicity sake, I had put in your suggestion about "future services" in the
> draft sent for last call, and it did elicit some comments. Taken literally
> this appears to refer to some "future service" other than Print, Scan, etc
> (i.e., the Imaging Services identified in this requirement document) If that
> is what is intended, it seems hardly appropriate in a requirements document
> for the modeling of these services. If it means to refer to new designs of
> devices supporting the addressed Imaging Services, I think that is also
> inappropriate. It was my understanding that this requirements document is
> supposed to address the requirements for and of the MFD Imaging Services
> Models, not some future Imaging Services and not directly for MFDs. And
> since it is supposed to precede the document generation, one may assume that
> it might be fairly general in its outline.
>
> If there is insistence on putting something in sections 7 and 8, and if it
> is agreed that this may be a general statement, not a summary of things
> embedded in the previous sections, then I suggest something like the
> following which is derived from corresponding sections of the already
> approved  MFD Imaging Service model documents. I might also note that the
> Scan and Resource Service Model and Interface documents had no mention of
> registration or internationalization (or  security) in the Rationale or
> Requirements  sections that were included in the place of a Requirements
> document.
>
> Bill Wagner
> =====================================
>
> 7       IANA and PWG Considerations
> Once a Imaging Services Model specification and associated schema is
> approved and published, the registration of extensions to the Service model
> defined in that specification will require a revision to that specification.
> Vendors may use extensions in their own namespace until such time as an
> update to the specification is under review.
>
> 8       Internationalization Considerations
> The Imaging Services Model specifications will identify element values
> defined by enumerations (e.g. State) that represent keywords. Keywords are
> never localized by the device. A <service> Client may convert the values
> into a form acceptable to the User. This conversion may include not only
> localization but also transformations into graphical representation.
>
> In each operation request, the <service> Client identifies a natural
> language that applies to the Imaging Service generated strings returned by
> the Service in operation responses. The Service must provide the localized
> value as requested by the user for any supported natural languages. A
> request for a language not supported results in a response with the string
> in the default localization.
>
> No localization is performed on string values supplied by an administrator
> or End User. These strings are returned in operation responses as they were
> sent by the administrator or End User.
>
> ==========================
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mfd-bounces at pwg.org [mailto:mfd-bounces at pwg.org] On Behalf Of Ira
> McDonald
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 1:16 PM
> To: mfd at pwg.org; Ira McDonald
> Subject: [MFD] Internationalization Considerations for MFD Requirements
> document
>
> Hi,
>
> I suggest the following text:
>
> "An MFD is a network device that frequently generates description and
> status attributes
> that contain human-readable text for Jobs and Services.  The design of
> future Imaging
> Services should require support for human-readable text in UTF-8 [RFC 3629].
> The design of future Imaging Services should NOT allow or encourage
> the use of any
> other encoding for human-readable text, in order to improve
> interoperability."
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira
>
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
> Co-Chair - TCG Hardcopy WG
> IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
> Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
> http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic
> http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
> mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com
> winter:
>   579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176
>   734-944-0094
> summer:
>   PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839
>   906-494-2434
>
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