[IPP] Questions for the stable draft of IPP FaxOut

[IPP] Questions for the stable draft of IPP FaxOut

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Apr 17 16:52:50 UTC 2013


Bill,

On 2013-04-17, at 12:33 PM, William A Wagner <wamwagner at comcast.net> wrote:
> I seem to recall that we decided to make Send-Hardcopy-Document optional or
> conditionally mandatory (if there is a scan capability) and were going to
> ask for an errata on the SM FaxOut spec.

Correct.  Apologies if I wasn't clear below, but Send-Hardcopy-Document is only required for printers with scanners.


> 
> Bill W.
> 
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> From: ipp-bounces at pwg.org [mailto:ipp-bounces at pwg.org] On Behalf Of Michael
> Sweet
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:21 PM
> To: munehisa.matsuda at brother.co.jp
> Cc: ipp at pwg.org
> Subject: Re: [IPP] Questions for the stable draft of IPP FaxOut
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2013-04-17, at 4:24 AM, munehisa.matsuda at brother.co.jp wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> We have two questions regarding the stable draft of IPP FaxOut.
>> 
>> 1. Send-Hardcopy-Document:
>> Since we cannot imagine the usage, we do not understand why this operation
> MUST be supported.
>> So could you tell us the use case of the Send-Hardcopy-Document operation?
>> If this operation is NOT critical for IPP FaxOut, we suggest to change it
> to be "optional" for implementing easily.
> 
> If you have a scan head on your MFP then users will want to be able to fax
> documents from that scan head.  There are already a lot of mobile
> applications being provided that serve as alternatives to the printer's own
> control panel, so this operation would allow those applications to support
> faxout as well.
> 
> And FWIW, the current wording is based on the intended conformance of the
> Semantic Model FaxOut spec, which makes the operation required.
> 
>> 2. destination-statuses:
>> We want to clarify which transmission status value should be specified in
> the "destination-statuses" when a multiple destination job is canceled.
>> Details are described below, but we think it is slightly unclear.
> 
> I'm happy to clarify the text here.
> 
>> "4.1.3 Job Terminating State
>> "The terminating state of an IPP FaxOut Job reflects the absolute final
> disposition of the Job. Jobs in the 'canceled' state were canceled by a User
> using the Cancel-Job, Cancel-Jobs, or Cancel-My-Jobs operations, regardless
> of whether any or all of the Job has been processed or partially transferred
> to its destination URI(s). The "destination-statuses" Job Description
> attribute (section 7.3.1) provides detailed information regarding the
> progress of the job prior to cancellation."
>> 
>> For example, the job has 5 destinations.
>> The job is canceled when the device is transfering fax document to 3rd
> destination.
>> ...
>> job-state: canceled
>> destination-statuses:
>> 1. completed
>> 2. completed
>> 3. canceled
>> 4. canceled
>> 5. canceled
>> 
>> Which is correct?
> 
> The latter.
> 
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