Ira, a few comments that I've been wanting to surface regarding the SNMP
printer MIB mapping.
You probably realize, I haven't been as large a proponent of preserving
consistency for the sake of large enterprise apps as you have... but I've
welcomed the mechanical mapping because
1. You were willing to do it
2. We need a mapping of the Printer MIB to XML to at least serve as basis
for our semantic modeling
3. It is possible that the resulting 1-to-1 mapping will be ideal for WBMM
(but I have my doubts)
An example of an area where I'm not sure the straightforward mapping will
serve well is in the Marker/MarkerSupplies/Colorant tables.
An important goal of WBMM will be accurate mark counts on a per color
basis. I believe this is achievable with the printer MIB but at the
expense of several layers of indexing. I would hope we can represent this
in a cleaner fashion in WBMM.
Ultimately, I believe an extension to the PWG semantic model for device
management with clean mapping to SNMP Printer MIB, DMTF CIM Printer, NPAP
etc. is the ultimate goal.
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Harry Lewis
Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
http://www.pwg.org
IBM Printing Systems
http://www.ibm.com/printers
303-924-5337
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