[MFD] Dec. 8-9 Face-to-Face Meeting Minutes is now available

[MFD] Dec. 8-9 Face-to-Face Meeting Minutes is now available

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 15:34:45 UTC 2009


Hi Bill,

Yes, Pete and I think that there is an analogous
case for FaxOut and EmailOut.

For purposes of the big diagram, just show
Repository on both sides with a footnote that
explains that a Repository is inherently
bi-directional, I suggest.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Co-Chair - TCG Hardcopy WG
IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM, William Wagner <wamwagner at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi Ira,
>
> Yes, access to the DigitalDocument would be the criterion. But as you
> suggested, the repository does not have an Imaging Service in or out sense
> to it: I need to figure out how to show that in the diagram.
>
> Is there an analogous case for FaxOut and EmailOut?
>
> Have a good holiday.
>
> Bill Wagner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ira McDonald [mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:07 PM
> To: William Wagner
> Cc: mfd at pwg.org
> Subject: Re: [MFD] Dec. 8-9 Face-to-Face Meeting Minutes is now available
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> [Just got out of our cars in Ann Arbor for the winter]
>
> When doing job save (but not for proof print), the actual
> Digital Document *path* in the Repository is exposed
> (that's the difference between the two features).
>
> A saved job can be queried for the path to the DD
> in the Repository.
>
> So Print Service SHOULD have an arrow to the
> Repository (input and output).
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira
>
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
> IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
> Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
> email: 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 Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:02 PM, William Wagner <wamwagner at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> Hi Ira,
>>
>> Thanks for your clarifications. However, for item 1 you did not address
> the
>> basic question about the elimination of the Print Service to Repository
>> path. Note also my later message where I suggest that DigitalDocument
> paths
>> to a repository when there is no intended client access to that
>> DigitalDocument are features of an implementation and not a Service, as
> with
>> the Copy Service.
>>
>> At any rate, have a good holiday.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill Wagner
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ira McDonald [mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:11 PM
>> To: William Wagner; Ira McDonald
>> Cc: mfd at pwg.org
>> Subject: Re: [MFD] Dec. 8-9 Face-to-Face Meeting Minutes is now available
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> Comments inline below.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Ira
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:27 PM, William Wagner <wamwagner at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>> Nancy and MFD WG,
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your extensive minutes. However, I wonder about a few  of
>>> the Items.
>>>
>>> 1.     With respect to the comment relative to Figure 2 of the Overall
> MFD
>>> spec, line 47 in the minutes:
>>>
>>> o   There should be no data flow arrow from print to Repository – the
>> second
>>> digital-doc is for job save operation.
>>>
>>> It was my understanding that that path was to be retained and was indeed
>>> associated with job save.
>>>
>>> Of course, the diagram (perhaps more for clarity)  shows  a two
>>> repositories: one that a client inputs to and that provides documents to
>>> Services; the other that Services input to and that make document
>> accessible
>>> to clients. One could argue that Services (other than Transform) that
>>> receive digital documents and potentially store them for some later
>> action,
>>> but not for local client re-access in a digital form should show the data
>>> flow arrow back to the “input” respository. In that case, I suggest that
>>> Print, FaxOut and EmailOut should shown the document storage path back to
>>> the “Input” repository.  Also, although I am a bit shaky on the
>> EmailIn/Out
>>> Services, I suspect that EmailOut should, like Print and FaxOut, have a
>>> potential input from an input repository. Comments?
>>>
>>
>> <ira>
>> My two cents - a Repository is generic and only because of the diagram
>> is "input" or "output" - there is no abstract difference.
>> </ira>
>>
>>> 2.     Line 51 in the minutes: There is no document ticket, only job
>> ticket
>>> containing document processing instructions. I had noted not to indicate
>>> that a job may contain a one or more Document Tickets. But if a Job
> cannot
>>> contain any Document Tickets, I wonder where document tickets get
>> associated
>>> with the documents in a job?
>>>
>>
>> <ira>
>> A Job can contain ONLY JobTicket and Document objects.
>> A Document can contain an OPTIONAL DocumentTicket (to override
>> the JobTicket).
>> A Job object does NOT *directly* contain a DocumentTicket object.
>> </ira>
>>
>>> 3.     The resolution of StorageMakeAndModel reference is not noted. I
>>> recall a reference to the HR MIB and the Printer MIB, but I can find this
>>> object in neither.
>>
>> <ira>
>> In the IETF HR MIB, manufacturer and model are ONLY formally specified
>> using the ProductID datatype (i.e., hrDeviceID for the storage element).
>> They can be *informally* specified in hrDeviceDescr and hrStorageDescr,
>> but those are not machine-readable (i.e., cannot be parsed).
>> </ira>
>>
>>>
>>> 4.     Also, as noted in the minutes, there are items that Pete and Ira
>> have
>>> yet to supply.
>>
>> <ira>
>> Nancy and I are now packing furiously for our move to Ann Arbor
>> early next week.  Nancy's brother and family will arrive in A2 late
>> next week for a week's visit.  I will have *very* limited time for
>> Power Model/MIB  or MFD/SM stuff for the rest of December.
>> </ira>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Bill Wagner
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: mfd-bounces at pwg.org [mailto:mfd-bounces at pwg.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Nancy.Chen at okidata.com
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:30 AM
>>> To: mfd at pwg.org
>>> Subject: [MFD] Dec. 8-9 Face-to-Face Meeting Minutes is now available
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> The minutes is now available at the following links:
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/mfd/minutes/pwg-ftf-mfd-minutes-20091208-09.pdf
>>> and
>>> ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/mfd/minutes/pwg-ftf-mfd-minutes-20091208-09.doc
>>>
>>> Thanks for all the participants!
>>>
>>> -Nancy
>>>
>>>
>>
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