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Harry Lewis (harryl@vnet.ibm.com)
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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 96 16:22:17 MST
From: "Harry Lewis <harryl@vnet.ibm.com>" <harryl@vnet.ibm.com>
To: pwg@pwg.org
Subject: PWG> Printer MIB comments
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Previously, I had sent...

>Sorry for these late comments but in reviewing the latest draft I noticed
>the following:

I would like to make one correction (inserted below) and reiterate my comments.

>1. Pg. 15 - With the new definition of Active, Busy/Temporarily Unavailable
> in the "table" below should probably be changed to Busy/Active
>
>2. Pg. 57 - In the new definition of phone, fax and e-mail conventions for
> Operator and Service Person... we specify phone: fax: email:. I've been
> told the "colon" is not in international character in that it is not in
> the minimum Unicode set. I'm checking on this but, meanwhile, do we care
> in this instance?

Sorry - I was misinformed regarding the :. My mistake, this is (obviously)
a valid unicode character even in the "base" definition.

>
> Also, should we specify in the convention what to do if you have a phone
> and e-mail but no fax (i.e. :: ?).
>
>3. Pg. 58 - The description for prtGeneralAdminName makes it sound like the
> name of the Administrator. I probably missed something, here, but I thought
> this was the name assigned by the administrator to the printer! Anyway...
> if it really is the name of the administrator, then shouldn't it be in
> the "Responsible Parties" group?
>
>4. Pg. 58 - prtGeneralSerialNumber has SYNTAX of PresentOnOff. This must
> be an error
>
>5. Pg. 58 - prtAlertCriticalEvents. Should we clarify whether this value
> is supposed to persist or reset across power cycles?
>
> Also, the prtAlertEvent stuff we added seems like it would be much more
> useful if we also added something like...
> prtAlertMaxTableSize. Then, knowing the max number of entries a given
> printer could store and, keeping track of the new alert counters, it could
> be determined if any alerts were lost. Polling could presumable be adjusted.>
>
> This may have to be in a future revision.
>
>6. No one seems to have written any prtChannelInformation for chPortTCP (37/38)>
> It seems like the port number would be very useful here. May I suggest?
>
> Port
>
> Keyword: "Port"
> Syntax HexString
> Status Mandatory
> Multiplicity Multiple

Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems