I don't understand why having two separate GetAttribute operations are
needed if the security requirements differ for a job and a printer.
The job and printer should have different URIs. Is this different from
two printers with different URIs having different security requirements
with the same GetAttributes operation?
By the way, the model as currently defined, returns only job attributes
or printer attributes for the GetAttributes and GetJobs operations.
Bob Herriot
> From jkm at underscore.com Thu Jun 12 14:52:39 1997
>> I agree entirely with the need to have separate "Get Attributes"
> operations for Job(s) and Printer, particularly given security
> considerations.
>> ...jay
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>> From ipp-owner at pwg.org Thu Jun 12 17:34 EDT 1997
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:22:07 PDT
> To: ipp at pwg.org> From: Carl-Uno Manros <cmanros at cp10.es.xerox.com>
> Subject: IPP> SEC & MOD - Get-Attributes operation
>> We have just finished our SEC conference call for today and feel confident
> that we now have all the important stuff that we expect to provide in the
> document and will issue a new I-D shortly. We expect to discuss with the
> Protocol group on Tuesday, what they might still need from us to go into
> their document.
>> One issue that came up, was related to the Get-Attributes operation.
>> It is quite possible that a particular Job on a printer has different
> security requirements than getting information about the Printer itself.
> The Job security level is often determined by the job owner, while the
> Printer security level is determined by the printer administrator.
>> This seems to be a good reason to split up the Get-Attributes into a
> Get-Job-Attributes and a Get-Printer-Attributes operation.
> (Remember we created two new ones yesterday, so we are on the roll here :-)
>> I know that we have had this kind of discussion previously, but this is a
> new argument that has now come up in support of making a split.
>> As far as I can remember from last time we discussed this, there are
> situations in which you want to get back both Printer attributes and Job
> attributes in a response (e.g. printer status, when you ask about job
> status), but is that really a strong enough reason to only have one
> Get-Attributes operation, or should we rather consider making some special
> rules for things like status information?
>> Comments?
>> Carl-Uno
>>> Carl-Uno Manros
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