Hi Mark,
[The IEEE-ISTO 5101.1 media names standard is brand new. The most recent
Printer MIB draft (17 December 2001) preceded the adoption of 5101.1.]
1) [my opinion - not a concensus of the editors or WG]
Ira - Yes, 'prtInputMediaName', 'prtInputMediaDimFeedDirChosen',
'prtInputMediaDimXFeedDirChosen', 'prtInputMediaDimUnit',
and Appendix B Media Size Names and Appendix C Media Names
_should_ be revised to reference IEEE-ISTO 5101.1 as successor and
superset of ISO 10175 (DPA) names. And I agree that use of the Self
Describing Name should be _recommended_ (not required, because it's
not backward compatible with RFC 1759, Printer MIB v1) for use in the
'prtInputMediaName' object.
Rationale - IEEE-ISTO 5101.1 is intended to be reference _by_ other
standards (like a revision of IPP/1.1, Bluetooth Print, UPnP Print,
and others) that use media names. A Printer MIB normative reference
to IEEE-ISTO 5101.1 should be OK, in an IETF 'standards track' RFC,
because 5101.1 has been adopted and archived at the PWG web site.
Ron and Ray - comments?
2) [typo in Appendix B]
Ira - Yes, there are two typos at the end of the first paragraph in
Appendix B. It _should_ say both 'prtInputMediaDimFeedDirChosen'
and 'prtInputMediaDimXFeedDirChosen'.
Ron - we need to capture this typo for RFC Editor.
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald, co-editor of Printer MIB v2
High North Inc
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From: Hopkins, Mark [mailto:MHopkins at crt.xerox.com]
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'bwijnen at lucent.com'
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Subject: RE: PMP> Printer MIB draft-11 posted at PWG site (10 January
2002 )
Ira,
I am confused about the messages from PWG concerning media size names in the
Printer MIB and IEEE-ISTO 5101. In particular, in the Printer MIB,
shouldn't prtInputMediaName reference IEEE-ISTO 5101.1 in preference to
Appendix C. And it seems that the Self-Describing Name should be encouraged
as the default MediaName.
Also, please note that the last line of the first paragraph of Appendix B
uses the object name prtMediaDimFeedDir. I believe you mean
prtInputChosenMediaDimFeedDir.
Thanks for pushing the Printer MIB through the process.
Mark Hopkins
-----Original Message-----
From: McDonald, Ira [mailto:imcdonald at sharplabs.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:15 PM
To: McDonald, Ira; 'Ron.Bergman at Hitachi-hkis.com'; 'bwijnen at lucent.com'
Cc: 'schoenw at ibr.cs.tu-bs.de'; 'dbh at enterasys.com'; 'harryl at us.ibm.com';
'RCasterline at lhsolutions.com'; 'pmp at pwg.org'
Subject: RE: PMP> Printer MIB draft-11 posted at PWG site (10 January
2002 )
Hi folks,
I just posted the latest version of Printer MIB v2 (draft-11) at the
PWG FTP server - this copy DOES have the formfeeds (page breaks), so
it prints and views better. And I extracted and compiled and verified
the ASN.1 for the MIB.
To the best of our knowledge this version corrects all problems that
Bert Wijnen, David Harrington, and Juergen Schoenwaelder have found.
The editors believe this document is now ready for publication as an RFC.
At the PWG anonymous FTP server in the directory:
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/drafts/
in the files:
draft-ietf-printmib-mib-info-11.txt -- full document w/ formfeeds
draft-ietf-printmib-mib-info-11.mib -- extracted ASN.1 for MIB
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald, co-editor of Printer MIB v2
High North Inc
imcdonald at sharplabs.com