Babak
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>From: rdebry@us.ibm.com [SMTP:rdebry@us.ibm.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 17, 1997 2:35 PM
>To: ipp@pwg.org
>Subject: IPP>REQ - end to end scenarios
>
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>In addition to the various piecemeal scenarios that I have been working on
>for
>the requirements document, I thought that it would be instructive to include
>at
>least a couple of end to end scenarios in order to tie everything together.
>I
>thought that I would do a couple that sort of represented opposite ends of
>the
>spectrum -- a rather informal, open office environment with a few shared
>printers, and a complex print something at a local print shop scenario. The
>details of the proposed end to end scenarios follows. Before I spend a lot
>of
>time, I'd like some feedback -- do you think that this would be helpful? Do
>these scenarios represent some of what we think will be typical uses? I'd be
>glad to take input, ideas, etc. before I start work. Please send your cards
>and
>letters.
>
>
>Scenario #1: An office worker prints on a shared, departmental printer. All
>printers in the office are available for office printing, no authorization is
>required to print, and no billing or accounting is done. Most printing is
>done
>from standard desktop applications. A help desk is provided to help with
>print
>problems. Standard desktop operating systems are used and drivers for the
>printers are available from the support group. However, they are installed
>manually by the support group on the client machine. Users generally are
>only
>interested in finding machines close to their office and only worry about
>printer features in very special cases. Most printing is "vanilla" office
>printing.
>
>
>Scenario #2: An executive in his hotel room is finishing an important
>presentation on his laptop computer. He connects to a local print shop
>through
>the web to get a copy of his charts printed for tomorrow's presentation. He
>must find a shop that is convenient, can print color foils, and he wants to
>find the lowest price. He must also temporarily install a driver in order to
>generate the PDL required by the print shop. Mutual authentication is
>required
>by the printshop and payment must be made in advance for the job. The job is
>encrypted on the wire to prevent eavesdropping.