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RE: WBMM> Re: Need quick decisions on schema changes

From: Zehler, Peter (PZehler@crt.xerox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 14:36:24 EDT

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    Ira,

    Harry covered my views. My inserts are only on 7 & 8.

     

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl@us.ibm.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:57 PM
    To: McDonald, Ira
    Cc: 'wbmm@pwg.org'; 'Wagner,William'
    Subject: WBMM> Re: Need quick decisions on schema changes

     

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    Harry Lewis
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    IBM Printing Systems
    http://www.ibm.com/printers
    303-924-5337
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    "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>

    06/02/2004 11:47 AM

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    "'wbmm@pwg.org'" <wbmm@pwg.org>

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    "'Wagner,William'" <WWagner@NetSilicon.com>, Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM@IBMUS

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    Need quick decisions on schema changes

     

     

     

    Hi,

    PLEASE answer quickly with your opinions on edits below,
    so I can begin the edits needed in all of the WIMS schema
    after last week's PWG Vancouver meetings.

    Last week, we reduced the scope of the PWG Std Events spec
    and Events schema to Printer-only (Printer, Job, Document,
    and Subunit). Fine, but...

    (1) Alerts schema - Should I delete 'AlertResource'?

        - it depended on the now _deleted_ ResourceXxx events
         in the Events schema and Resource object in the
         (abandoned) Imaging System Model draft

    HL - Yes, for now... but we need to put these back in later

    (2) Alerts schema - Should I change 'NotifySourceState'
       to delete 'Testing' and 'Down' from 'hrDeviceStatus'
       in Host Resources MIB (RFC 2790)?

        - this change will make support of coherent Printer
         state harder to harmonize with HR MIB
       - I think that it's a bug that Printer state in IPP/1.1
         requires state reasons to report Down or Testing

    HL - No

    (3) Alerts schema - Should I rename 'NotifySourceState'
       to 'NotifyPrinterState' and 'NotifySourceURI' to
       'NotifyPrinterURI'?

        - doing so effectively closes the future possibility
         of multifunction alert support in WIMS

    HL - No!

    (4) Resource schema - Should we abandon this schema?

        - last week's meeting seemed against adding any
         new objects except in some future PWG MFP Model
       - abandoning Resources seems foolish to me

     HL - Seems foolish to me too. Don't like the word abandon. Prefer
    "staging"

    (5) Schedule schema - Should I reorganize it into
       the three Monitoring, Management, and Admin groups
       of Actions?

        - this seems worthwhile, as it describes WIMS levels
         better

    HL - Yes

    (6) Schedule schema - Should I delete Resource actions?

        - Does WIMS WG accept the need to model Resource?

    HL - No (Yes... but possibly at a later "stage")

    (7) Schedule schema - Should I import 'NotifyEvents' from
       the Events schema?
       
       - this looks better, but again loses Resources

    HL - Not sure... why does this loose Resources... because event schema
    requirments are being driven by PSI? Seems incorrect.

                <PZ>I don't understand this one either</PZ>

    (8) Schedule schema - Should I add the elements for
       Supported[Operations|Actions|Objects] here, so
       that RegisterForManagement operation works?

        - the WIMS operations won't appear in any generic
         PWG Semantic Model element in the forseeable future

    HL - why do you say the WIMS ops won't appear in SM? Do you mean just the
    admin related Ops?

                <PZ>This would seem to be a straight forward extension and could
    be added to the Schema easily, captured as a Semantic Model extension and
    picked up in the next version of the PWG Semantic Model spec</PZ>

     

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com



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