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From: Hastings, Tom N (hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 16:15:47 EST

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    The document is entitled: "Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Job and
    Printer Set Operations"

    The files are available:

    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_OPS/draft-ietf-ipp-job-printer-set-ops-00.
    txt
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_OPS/ipp-job-printer-set-ops-000301.doc
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_OPS/ipp-job-printer-set-ops-000301.pdf
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_OPS/ipp-job-printer-set-ops-000301.txt
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_OPS/ipp-job-printer-set-ops-000301-rev.doc
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_OPS/ipp-job-printer-set-ops-000301-rev.pdf

    This is to become the first Internet-Draft. The text version has been sent
    to the IETF. These operations used to be in the Set2 specification which
    has had an Internet-Draft, but we removed them into a separate
    specification, in order to speed them along. Carl-Uno will announce an IPP
    WG Last Call when it is received from the Internet-Drafts secretariat.
    Please send any comments to the mailing list.

    There is one ISSUE which is a check for confirmation:

    ISSUE 01 - Ok to define the 'any-value' out-of-band value to have an actual
    value, consisting of the attribute syntax code?

    The Encoding text is as follows:

    8.1.3 Encoding of the 'any-value' out-of-band attribute value
    The encoding of the 'any-value' out-of-band attribute value is 0x17 (see
    [ipp-pro]). This out-of-band value REQUIRES a non-zero length and an
    attribute value which identifies an attribute syntax type. The attribute
    value is either (1) a one-octet attribute syntax tag as defined in [ipp-pro]
    (value length = 1) or (2) a 0x7F code followed by a 4-octets of an extended
    attribute syntax type code as allocated in [ipp-pro] (value length = 5).

    Here is the Abstract:

    This document specifies 3 additional OPTIONAL operations for use with the
    Internet Printing Protocol/1.0 (IPP) [RFC2565, RFC2566], IPP/1.1 [ipp-mod,
    ipp-pro], and future versions. The first is the Set-Printer-Attributes
    operation that operators/administrators may perform on a Printer object to
    change Printer attribute values. The second is the Set-Job-Attributes
    operation that end-users may perform on their jobs and
    operators/administrators may perform on any job, depending on circumstances.
    The operation changes the Job attribute values. The third is the
    Get-Printer-Supported-Values operation that operators/administrators may
    perform on a Printer object in order to determine acceptable values for
    setting "xxx-supported" attributes using the Set-Printer-Attributes
    operation.
    A Printer implementation can make the value of some attributes dependent on
    the document-format, e.g. "resolution-supported".
    Two operation attributes: "printer-message-from-operator" (text) and
    "job-message-from-operator" (text) are defined to set the corresponding
    IPP/1.1 Printer and Job Description attributes with the same names. A new
    out-of-band value 'any-value' is added which may be used with any attribute
    syntax if an attribute definition allows. The 'any-value' value used with
    the 'name' attribute syntax can be (one of) the values of "xxx-supported"
    attributes whose attribute syntaxes include both 'keyword' and 'name'. The
    'any-value' value with the 'name' attribute syntax matches any name supplied
    by the client during validation.
    New Printer Description attributes are defined:
                    printer-settable-attributes-supported (1setOf type2 keyword)
                    job-settable-attributes-supported (1setOf type2 keyword)
                    document-format-varying-attributes (1setOf type2 keyword)
                    printer-message-time (integer(MIN:MAX))
                    printer-message-date-time (dateTime)
    A new status code is defined: 'client-error-attributes-not-settable'.
    A 'delete-attribute' out-of-band attribute value is defined for use by the
    client in the Set-Job-Attributes request to indicate explicitly that the
    Printer is to remove the specified attribute from the Job object.
    Finally, the 'not-settable' out-of-band attribute value is defined for
    returning in the Set-Printer-Attributes and Set-Job-Attributes operation
    responses.
    The scope of IPP is characterized in RFC2526 "Design Goals for an Internet
    Printing Protocol". It is not the intent of this document to revise or
    clarify this scope or conjecture as to the degree of industry adoption or
    trends related to IPP within printing systems. It is the intent of this
    document to extend the original set of operations - in a similar fashion to
    the Set1 extensions which referred to IPP/1.0 and were later incorporated
    into IPP/1.1.

    Here is the Change History:
    1.1 Changes to the January 30, 2000 version to make the March 1, 2000
    version
    The following changes to the January 30, 2000 version to make the March 1,
    2000 version as a result of the IPP WG telecons, New Orleans meeting, and
    mailing list discussion:
    1. Clarified that this extension may be used with any IPP version,
    including 1.0, 1.1, and future versions.
    2. Added "READ-ONLY" and "not-settable" terms to the terminology
    section. READ-ONLY is by definition, and "not-settable" is by
    implementation.
    3. Assigned the "operation-id" values 0x0013, 0x0014, and 0x0015,
    respectively, for the Set-Printer-Attributes, Set-Job-Attributes, and
    Get-Printer-Supported-Values operations.
    4. Clarified that the Set-Printer-Attributes operation while a Printer
    SHOULD accept a reasonable number of attribute, the Printer need only
    support setting one attribute in a request, unless it supports setting the
    three "parallel" attributes, ("printer-uri-supported",
    "uri-authentication-supported", and "uri-security-supported" (see [ipp-mod]
    sections 4.4.1 through 4.4.3), in which case it MUST support setting at
    least three attributes in a single request.
    5. Clarified that for the Set-Printer-Attributes operation the Printer
    MUST validate all of the supplied attributes in combination with each other,
    as well as with all of the existing attribute of the Printer object
    Set-Printer-Attributes.
    6. Changed the requirements for accepting the Set-Printer-Attributes
    operation when the Printer is in the 'stopped' state from MUST to SHOULD,
    since some implementations may not be able to accept requests when stopped.
    7. Clarified that setting certain Printer attributes with
    Set-Printer-Attributes MAY require more access rights than other attributes,
    i.e., System Administrator rights to set policy and only Operator rights to
    set the configuration attributes to reflect the current hardware setup.
    8. Clarified the order of error checking and what is returned in each
    case in the Set-Printer-Attributes response.
    9. Changed the 'default' out-of-band value to 'delete-attribute'
    out-of-band value so that the effect is to actually remove the Job attribute
    entirely in the Set-Job-Attribute operation.
    10. Clarified that removing a Job attribute that is not present is not
    an error.
    11. Clarified the validation of the Set-Job-Attributes request and what
    is returned for each error.
    12. Changed the 'any-name' out-of-band attribute value to a more general
    'any-value' out-of-band attribute value which in combination with an
    attribute syntax represents any value of that attribute syntax. The
    'any-value' value can be used with the 'name' attribute syntax in a
    Get-Printer-Supported-Values response to indicate whether or not a
    Set-Printer-Attributes will accept any name to be set for particular
    "xxx-supported" (1setOf name | ...) Printer attributes.
    13. Clarified that "printer-message-from-operator" and
    "job-message-from-operator" both REQUIRE that the Printer accept zero-length
    messages and the 'no-value' out-of-band value is synonymous with removing
    any value from these Printer attributes.
    14. Clarified that the Get-Printer-Supported-Values is REQUIRED only if
    the Set-Printer-Attributes operation will accept setting some
    "xxx-supported" Printer attributes.
    15. Changed the IANA Considerations to indicate that the operations,
    attributes, status codes, and out-of-band-values won't be registered and
    published by IANA, since this document is intended to be standards track.
    16. Added security considerations for denial of service and sabotage
    because of the Set operations.



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