[IPP] Errata: PWG 5100.9: IPP Printer State Extensions v1.0

[IPP] Errata: PWG 5100.9: IPP Printer State Extensions v1.0

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Mar 20 19:09:47 UTC 2014


OK, I have updated the pending registrations at:

    http://www.pwg.org/ipp/ipp-registrations.xml

with the proposed changes.


On Mar 18, 2014, at 4:15 PM, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> I like your revised proposal better.
> 
> For the future, we should always use the suffix "Fault" in IANA Printer MIB
> and "-fault" in IPP when new alerts need it for clarity (so that the IPP and
> Printer MIB equivalents for severity can be used).
> 
> The "Error" suffix in PWG 5100.9 in IANA Printer MIB was a mistake (now 
> 5 years old, sadly), because the separate prtAlertSeverityLevel object must 
> always distinguish between and "critical" and "warning" (there is no such 
> thing as "report" in the Printer MIB, which is an original RFC 1759 bug).
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
> 
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG
> Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
> Secretary - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
> Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG Internet Printing Protocol WG
> IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
> Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic
> http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
> mailto: blueroofmusic at gmail.com
> Winter  579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176  734-944-0094
> Summer  PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839  906-494-2434
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> Ira,
> 
> I'm not sure about adoption on these keywords (I've never seen them in the wild), but I'm not keen on changing already-registered values.
> 
> Upon further review/thought, it seems to me that the xxx-recoverable-storage-error keywords could all have the -error, -report, or -warning (as appropriate) suffixes, while the xxx-unrecoverable-storage-error keywords all seem to require user interaction and should stop the printer.  So as an alternative to my original proposal we could:
> 
> - Register all xxx-recoverable-storage-error keywords as xxx-recoverable-storage and note that implementations must choose the correct suffix (-error, -report, -warning) as appropriate.
> - Keep the xxx-unrecoverable-storage-error keywords and note that the printer must be in the stopped state when reporting them.
> 
> The advantage is that existing implementations are unaffected, the mapping from the MIBs to IPP remains "clean", and we set precedent for printer-state-reasnos keywords: when registering a keyword with an -error, -report, or -warning suffix, that is the only allowed suffix for the keyword (no -error-error, -error-warning, etc.)
> 
> (I'm not super happy about the resulting registered names, but once you add a suffix the xxx-recoverable-storage-bla name sort of makes sense...)
> 
> 
> On Mar 17, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mike,
>> 
>> See my related reply about PWG 5107.3.
>> 
>> I suggest changing the IPP printer-state-reasons from "-error" to "-fault".
>> 
>> WARNING - all of the PWG 5100.9 extensions *were* registered in the
>> IANA Printer MIB and SMIv2 rules prevent our changing the names of
>> already assigned enumeration values, so the possible fix is different 
>> from my suggested one for PWG 5107.3.
>> 
>> WARNING - vendors (printer and management systems) who have used
>> the previously assigned PWG 5107.3 or PWG 5100.9 names and values
>> in the Printer MIB will have breakage if we change these "Error" suffixes
>> in the IANA Printer MIB.
>> 
>> I'll put this topic on the next IPP WG agenda for 31 March.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> - Ira
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
>> Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG
>> Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
>> Secretary - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
>> Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG Internet Printing Protocol WG
>> IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
>> Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
>> http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic
>> http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
>> mailto: blueroofmusic at gmail.com
>> Winter  579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176  734-944-0094
>> Summer  PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839  906-494-2434
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> It was recently pointed out to me that PWG 5100.9 defines several "printer-state-reasons" keywords with the suffix "-error":
>> 
>>     subunit-recoverable-storage-error
>>     subunit-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     bander-recoverable-storage-error
>>     bander-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     binder-recoverable-storage-error
>>     binder-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     die-cutter-recoverable-storage-error
>>     die-cutter-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     folder-recoverable-storage-error
>>     folder-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     imprinter-recoverable-storage-error
>>     imprinter-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     inserter-recoverable-storage-error
>>     inserter-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     make-envelope-recoverable-storage-error
>>     make-envelope-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     perforater-recoverable-storage-error
>>     perforater-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     puncher-recoverable-storage-error
>>     puncher-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     separation-cutter-recoverable-storage-error
>>     separation-cutter-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     sheet-rotator-recoverable-storage-error
>>     sheet-rotator-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     slitter-recoverable-storage-error
>>     slitter-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     stacker-recoverable-storage-error
>>     stacker-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     stapler-recoverable-storage-error
>>     stapler-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     stitcher-recoverable-storage-error
>>     stitcher-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     trimmer-recoverable-storage-error
>>     trimmer-unrecoverable-storage-error
>>     wrapper-recoverable-storage-error
>>     wrapper-unrecoverable-storage-error
>> 
>> However, RFC 2911 reserves this suffix for indicating the severity of the reason:
>> 
>>    4.4.12 printer-state-reasons (1setOf type2 keyword)
>> 
>>    This REQUIRED Printer attribute supplies additional detail about the
>>    device's state.  Some of the these value definitions indicate
>>    conformance requirements; the rest are OPTIONAL.
>> 
>>    Each keyword value MAY have a suffix to indicate its level of
>>    severity.  The three levels are: report (least severe), warning, and
>>    error (most severe).
>> 
>>       - '-report':  This suffix indicates that the reason is a "report".
>>         An implementation may choose to omit some or all reports. Some
>>         reports specify finer granularity about the printer state;
>>         others serve as a precursor to a warning. A report MUST contain
>>         nothing that could affect the printed output.
>>       - '-warning': This suffix indicates that the reason is a
>>         "warning".  An implementation may choose to omit some or all
>>         warnings. Warnings serve as a precursor to an error. A warning
>>         MUST contain nothing that prevents a job from completing, though
>>         in some cases the output may be of lower quality.
>>       - '-error': This suffix indicates that the reason is an "error".
>>         An implementation MUST include all errors. If this attribute
>>         contains one or more errors, printer MUST be in the stopped
>>         state.
>> 
>>    If the implementation does not add any one of the three suffixes, all
>>    parties MUST assume that the reason is an "error".
>> 
>> Since an IPP Printer MAY report any of the above keywords when the Printer is not in the stopped state, I propose we add an informative note to table 5-2 saying something like the following:
>> 
>>     Note 1: Section 4.4.12 [RFC2911] requires that the Printer is in the
>>     stopped state when reporting "printer-state-reasons" values ending
>>     with "-error". Printers MUST append a suffix of "-report" or
>>     "warning" to this keyword when the Printer is not in the stopped
>>     state.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if we want to clarify that the "job-state-reasons" attribute only contains the registered values without added suffixes.
>> 
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
>> 
>> 
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>> 
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
> 
> 

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

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