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<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Mike,</div><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>- Ira</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><i><font size="1">Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)</font></i></div><div><i><font size="1">Chair - SAE Trust Anchors and Authentication TF<br></font></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i><font size="1">Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG</font></i></div><div><i><font size="1">Co-Chair - TCG Metadata Access Protocol SG<br></font></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i><font size="1">Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG<br>Secretary - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group<br>Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG Internet Printing Protocol WG<br>IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB<br>Blue Roof Music / High North Inc<br><a style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic</a><br><a style="color:rgb(102,0,204)" href="http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc</a><br>mailto: <a href="mailto:blueroofmusic@gmail.com" target="_blank">blueroofmusic@gmail.com</a><br>(permanent) PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839 906-494-2434</font></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 8:48 AM Michael Sweet via ipp <<a href="mailto:ipp@pwg.org">ipp@pwg.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">All,<div><br></div><div>I was looking for a place to report a printer's hardware serial number and noticed that we never defined one for an IPP Printer object, just the System object (where it is OPTIONAL).</div><div><br></div><div>I propose we add this to NODRIVER. Based on the text in the IPP System Service specification this would look something like the following:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div>6.7.N printer-serial-number (text(255))</div><div><br></div><div>This RECOMMENDED attribute provides the serial number for the Printer and is semantically equivalent to the prtGeneralSerialNumber element defined in [RFC3805].</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm proposing this as RECOMMENDED since a) why define it if we don't want it implemented, and b) because not every Printer is backed by a hardware output device and so won't necessarily have a serial number to report.</div><div><br></div><div>This sort of information is commonly available via printer drivers/utilities (for support purposes) and so it fits with the focus of NODRIVER.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br><div>________________________<br>Michael Sweet<br><br><br></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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