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Hi Bill,<br><br>I spoke at length today with Rick Landau about CIM.<br><br>Key points:<br><br>(1) CIM_PrintService[Settings/Capabilities] and CIM_PrintJob<br> - Rick plans to write these CRs over the Christmas holiday<br>
- CIM CR tool still too unstable to share (i.e., Rick has to do CRs)<br><br>(2) CIM Profiles<br> - over 100 profiles have now been published<br> - CIM Computer System Profile is the place to start reading<br>
- CIM SMASH and DASH Profiles are good examples for the<br> mandatory power states, operational states, etc.<br><br>(3) CIM V3 Project<br> - The Problem: Too many complex, normalized CIM classes (e.g.,<br>
using the Ethernet Profile requires 40 classes and 80 accesses)<br> - The Answer: New CIM 'read-only' View classes for monitoring <br> and new methods for configuration (NO direct setting allowed for<br>
the View classes) - similar to my PWG PrtViews.xsd from 2004<br> - New enumerated datatypes support (e.g., currently some enums <br> are *duplicated* 4 times in various CIM Printing classes)<br> - Full machine-translation from CIM V2 classes to CIM V3 classes<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>- Ira<br><br><br clear="all">Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)<br>Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG<br>Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG IPP WG<br>Co-Chair - TCG Hardcopy WG<br>IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB<br>
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