[IPP] RFC: Add "printer-serial-number (text(255))" to NODRIVER

[IPP] RFC: Add "printer-serial-number (text(255))" to NODRIVER

Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & IPP Standards) smith.kennedy at hp.com
Tue Dec 1 13:59:14 UTC 2020


Hi Mike,

No objections to adding this but a few thoughts:

- PII concerns?
- Overlap with the key/value pairs provided by "printer-device-id" - the "SN" key isn't standardized but is out there...

Smith

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> On Dec 1, 2020, at 6:47 AM, Michael Sweet via ipp <ipp at pwg.org> wrote:
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> All,
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> 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).
> 
> I propose we add this to NODRIVER.  Based on the text in the IPP System Service specification this would look something like the following:
> 
> 6.7.N printer-serial-number (text(255))
> 
> This RECOMMENDED attribute provides the serial number for the Printer and is semantically equivalent to the prtGeneralSerialNumber element defined in [RFC3805].
> 
> 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.
> 
> This sort of information is commonly available via printer drivers/utilities (for support purposes) and so it fits with the focus of NODRIVER.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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> Michael Sweet
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