IFX Mail Archive: IFX> IPPFAX/1.0 Protocol document update

IFX> IPPFAX/1.0 Protocol document update

From: Zehler, Peter (PZehler@crt.xerox.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 12:56:18 EST

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    All,
    Since Tom's PC is currently being upgraded I am sending this out on his
    behalf.
    Pete

    I've updated "The IPPFAX/1.0 Protocol" document with the
    agreements reached at the December 14, telecon and down-loaded
    version D0.9 to:

    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/ifx-spec-09-rev.pdf
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/ifx-spec-09-rev.doc
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/ifx-spec-09.pdf
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/ifx-spec-09.doc

    The changes are (as indicated in the published telecon notes):

    1. Remove the "ippfax-" prefix from all the new attributes and
    clarify that they MAY be supported by an IPP Printer as
    OPTIONAL extensions to IPP as well. This allows the user
    to have all of the benefits of IPPFAX for document exchange
    without requiring the security when that is desired, such
    as within a company on its LAN.

    2. Add back "ippfax-version-number" operation attribute and
    "ippfax-versions-supported" Printer Description attribute
    and clarify that an IPP Printer MUST NOT support them.
    Clarify that the "version-number" parameter and "ipp-
    versions-supported' Printer Description attribute applies
    to the IPP Protocol that is part of the IPPFAX protocol, so
    that IPPFAX really has two version numbers, one for its IPP
    and the other for IPPFAX itself. Clarify that the Sender
    MUST supply the "ippfax-version-number" operation attribute
    to indicate that the request is an IPPFAX request (along
    with the 'ippfax:' scheme in the "printer-uri" operation
    attribute). Clarify that the way that the Sender
    determines that the Printer is a Sender is that the Printer
    supports the "ippfax-versions-supported" Printer
    Description attribute, instead of comparing the "printer-
    uri-supported" which would require the much more
    complicated URI matching rules. Clarify that the Receiver
    MUST check both the "version-number" parameter for the
    proper

    3. Allow Receivers to support the single allowed value for
    some of the Job Template attributes for which other values
    would be inappropriate for the "FAX-like" service of
    IPPFAX, rather than forbidding support of such attributes
    altogether.

    4. Continue to allow a Receiver to support 'none' for Client
    Authentication in the "uri-authentication-supported"
    Printer Description attribute (Table 13) so that anonymous
    users can be supported if the administrator wishes, but NOT
    allow a Receiver to support 'none' for security in the uri-
    security-supported" Printer Description attribute (Table
    15). An IPPFAX Exchange MUST always start out in TLS.

    The following 3 minor issues remain:

    ISSUE 01: For the "operations-supported" Printer Description
    attribute should we remove the "MUST depend on the role of the
    authenticated requesting user" or change to SHOULD or MAY?

    ISSUE 02: Can we simplify "uif-profile-capabilities" (1setOf
    text(MAX)) by making it single-valued, especially now that UIF
    provides some short hand equivalents for common CONNEG
    capabilities? UIF CONNEG capabilities above the minimum should
    now fit in 1023 ASCII octets.

    ISSUE 03: OK that the Receiver MUST support "auto-notify" with
    at least the 'false' value, so that all new attributes defined
    by this document are REQUIRED?

    Please send any comments on these issues or anything else about
    the document to the mailing list.

    Tom

                                    Peter Zehler
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