WIMS> CIM - Order of next printing updates

From: Ira McDonald (blueroofmusic@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2007 - 18:31:48 EDT

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    Hi,

    We have four or five small edits to do in the various Printer subunit classes
    (after CIM v2.17 is published, when we can do 2.18 revisions).

    But we also have three kinds of substantive edits to do in Printer:
    (1) Add Printer MIB v1 and v2 missing properties (a handful)
    (2) Deprecate properties now represented better in subunit classes.
    (3) Deprecate properties to be "moved" (i.e., copied) to PrintService.

    In phone discussions, Rick has suggested to me that we'll "have to revise
    CIM_Printer several times" (because you can't do item (3) above until
    AFTER service properties have already been copied to PrintService,
    because a deprecated property MUST refer to the replacement one).

    But there is a very serious impedance filter in CIM updates - only ONE CR
    against a given class can be processed in a CIM update cycle (four months).
    And a new CR can't be written for a class until the previous CIM version is
    actually *published* (several more months).

    So, I suggest that we get a little smarter and do a small update FIRST to
    PrintService, and then submit all three items in Printer and be DONE with
    Printer.

    The calendar difference would be four to six months sooner.

    Comments?

    Cheers,
    - Ira 

    -- 
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
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