From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 20:24:02 EST
Hi,
The next CIM alignment concall is at 2PM EST on Thursday, 9 March.
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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
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-wims@pwg.org [mailto:owner-wims@pwg.org]On Behalf Of
wamwagner@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 4:07 PM
To: 'wims@pwg.org'
Subject: WIMS> CIM - 9 Mar Conference call at 2 PM EST
We will have a CIM alignment conference call on this Thursday. Subjects are
acceptance of the last call's minutes, progress report on the phase 1 CR and
recent communications on Phase 2 approach.
Bill Wagner Chairman WIMS WG/PWG
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
> Hi Rick,
>
> [copied WIMS mailing list, to get comments from other people]
>
> Your list of dispositions for dubious/ambiguous/misplaced properties
> in CIM_Printer class for Phase 2 looks fine to me.
>
> Note that in the latest version of my CIM Refresh document, I did
> specifically change the Description clauses for Horizontal/Vertical
> to clarify their relationship to the (already aligned) Printer MIB
> and IPP attributes.
>
> Since I haven't started on the Phase 1 changes for other classes,
> I'm not sure what we may find there for Phase 2.
>
> I plan to start on Phase 1 for CIM_PrintService this week.
>
> I'm also trying to get a working WSDL/1.1 fo! r WIMS together, so I
> may be a little slow with the CIM work.
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com [mailto:Richard_Landau@Dell.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 11:06 AM
> To: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
> Subject: FW: Work items for phase 2.
>
>
> Ira, just in case you didn't have enough to do to stave off
> boredom :-) , here's a fun distraction.
>
> I propose the following approximate list of things to do in the
> PWG-CIM alignment phase 2. Please complete the list with any items
> that you notice are missing. And suggest how we shall divvy these up.
>
> rick
! > --------------------------------------------------
&g! t;
& gt; PWG-CIM alignment, phase 2
>
> 1. Deprecate properties that cannot be implemented interoperably.
>
> CurrentPaperType
> CurrentLanguage
> CurrentMimeType
> CurrentCapabilities
>
>
> 2. Move (deprecate and add) some properties from CIM_Printer to
> CIM_PrintService.
>
> MaxCopies
> DefaultCopies
> MaxNumberUp
> DefaultNumberUp
> MaxSizeSupported
>
>
> 3. Improved explanations for other ambiguous properties, whatever
> ones we didn't get in phase 1.
>
> For instance, longer explanations in CIM_Printer.HorizontalResolution
> and Vertical Resolution about how these should be derived from SNMP
> correspondence or from common sense in the case of non-SNMP printers.
>
> HorizontalResolution
> VerticalResolution
> (Do we want to fix the non-metric units for these properties?) >
> CurrentCharSet
> CurrentNaturalLanguage
> (These are really DefaultXxxx but badly named.)
>
> Include semantic descriptions of
> - their impact on the operation of the printer;
> - how their values are changed;
> - when a changed value takes effect.
>
>
> Close?
> rick
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