IPP Mail Archive: IPP> RE: Line length of ornamented MIME ty

IPP> RE: Line length of ornamented MIME type names

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 17:57:57 EST

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    Hi Harry,

    As of my note yesterday to Bob Taylor (HP), I've _abandoned_ my idea for the
    PWG standard MIME parameters. A few Printer MIB-derived text parameters are
    feasible (although line length may well become a problem in some
    cut-and-paste
    interfaces). But _none_ of the interoperable machine-readable parameters
    that
    HP and others have asked for are practical.

    I believe we should leave unchanged the simple (unornamented) MIME types
    currently deployed in IPP/1.x implementations.

    For the PWG SM and PWG PSI interfaces, we should define an XML structured
    element (such as the suggested "document-type") with as many new details
    as we need.

    For the IPP binding, we need to figure out the best solution. I vastly
    prefer an IPP Resource-based solution, but we _could_ kludge these in
    with something like "document-type-col" (a collection).

    Adding a new ordered IPP Printer attribute that is directly parallel
    to the "document-format-supported" is possible, but a TERRIBLE idea.

    Cheers,
    - Ira McDonald
      High North Inc

    PS - I copied PSI and IPP lists on this reply to make sure others see my
    answer to your question promptly.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl@us.ibm.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:37 PM
    To: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
    Subject:

    In the MIME type definitions standard where you are embellishing... for
    better description of document types... is there any thought given to
    resulting length and how this works (or not) with various protocols (ex.
    SNMP, SMTP, etc.). Question came up at f2f today.
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    Harry Lewis
    IBM Printing Systems
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