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<font size=3>Re: elimination of the paragraph defined below (from Section
3.2.6.2 of Get-Jobs <br>
Response) so that attributes-natural-language is no longer used as a
<br>
language override in a Get-Jobs response.<br>
<br>
In today's teleconference, we decided that we could not make a well
informed <br>
decision on this issue without test results from the IPP implementations.
Xerox<br>
hopes to have a test suite by next week that we can use to test this
feature.<br>
<br>
We can eliminate the feature from IPP 1.0 if <br>
<br>
a) test results show that no
implementation supports the feature, or if <br>
b) the implementors of those
implementations that support the feature are <br>
willing to
eliminate the feature.<br>
<br>
If some implementations must continue to support this feature, then a
<br>
fallback is to change the "MUST" in the paragraph below to a
"MAY" for IPP <br>
1.0. Then servers are allowed to omit support of this feature, but
clients <br>
must be able to process Get-Jobs responses with this feature. This change
<br>
does not invalidate any implementations that follow the June 30
specs.<br>
However, it does change the intent, and becomes the first step in
deprecating <br>
this feature<br>
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<font size=3>Currently, Section 3.2.6.2 Get-Jobs Response contains the
following <br>
paragraph:<br>
<br>
<br>
For any job submitted in a different natural language than <br>
the natural language that the Printer object is returning in the <br>
"attributes-natural-language" operation attribute in the
Get-Jobs response, <br>
the Printer MUST indicate the submitted natural language by returning the
<br>
Job object's "attributes-natural-language" as the first Job
object <br>
attribute, which overrides the "attributes-natural-language"
operation <br>
attribute value being returned by the Printer object. If any returned
<br>
'text' or 'name' attribute includes a Natural Language Override as
described <br>
in the sections 4.1.1.2 and 4.1.2.2, the Natural Language Override
overrides <br>
the Job object's "attributes-natural-language" value and/or the
<br>
"attributes-natural-language" operation attribute value.<br>
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