IFX Mail Archive: RE: IFX> A new revision of the IPPFax spec

RE: IFX> A new revision of the IPPFax specification is ready [minor comments]

From: Rick Seeler (rseeler@adobe.com)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 15:19:54 EST

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    These changes have been made and will appear in Revision 0.13 of IPPFAX.

    Thanks Tom.

    -Rick

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-ifx@pwg.org [mailto:owner-ifx@pwg.org] On Behalf
    > Of Hastings, Tom N
    > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:13 PM
    > To: Gail Songer; Seeler, Rick
    > Cc: ifx@pwg.org
    > Subject: RE: IFX> A new revision of the IPPFax specification
    > is ready [minor comments]
    > Importance: High
    >
    >
    > Gail and Rick,
    >
    > Here are some minor comments on the Draft 12:
    >
    > 1. The new paragraph added to section 6 is good to have:
    >
    > "A Sender MUST NOT use any OPTIONAL feature in PDFax unless
    > it first queries the Receiver to confirm that the Receiver
    > supports the feature. If the feature is not supported in the
    > Receiver then the Sender MUST NOT use the OPTIONAL feature. A
    > Sender MUST NOT use any feature that is prohibited in PDFax
    > [ifx-pdfax] specification."
    >
    > 1a. However, it would be better to put it in the Conformance
    > Section 15 or somewhere else. The conformance section 15
    > needs to make reference to it.
    >
    > 1b. Section 1.1, point number 1 isn't as strong as your new paragraph:
    >
    > "1. Get-Printer-Attributes - Sender MUST verify that the
    > Printer object is an (IPPFAX) Receiver and SHOULD determine
    > some of the Receiver's basic capabilities, such as PDFax
    > profiles supported."
    >
    > This paragraph only says SHOULD, but paragraph 2:
    >
    > "2. Validate-Job - Sender MUST verify that the Receiver can
    > support the Job attributes that the Sender will send in the
    > IPPFAX Job."
    >
    > requires that the Sender do a Validate-Job in order to ensure
    > that unsupported attributes are not being submitted.
    >
    >
    > 2. The keywords in the new table 5 and 6 need to be made all
    > lower case and use hyphens between words to follow IPP keyword rules.
    >
    > I'll try calling in during the 1-3 PM CST time as well.
    >
    > Thanks for setting up the call-in.
    >
    > Tom
    >
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Gail Songer [mailto:gsonger@peerless.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:08
    > To: ifx@pwg.org
    > Subject: IFX> A new revision of the IPPFax specification is ready.
    >
    >
    >
    > The corresponding changes to the ifx-spec are now available:
    >
    > ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/ifx-spec-12-rev.pdf
    > ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/ifx-spec-12-rev.doc
    >
    >
    > Gail
    >
    >
    >
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    > specification is ready.
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    >
    >
    > IPPFAX people,
    >
    > Here is revision 0.2 of the PDFax specification. This will
    > be the revision that we will review in New Orleans next
    > month. Please note the 'issues' with PDFax in section 5 of
    > this document, they will be discussed in New Orleans.
    >
    ftp://pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/pdfax-spec-02.pdf

    For the version noting the changes from 0.1 --
    ftp://pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/pdfax-spec-02-rev.pdf

    Thanks for everyone's help.

    -Rick Seeler
    -Adobe Systems



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