By the way, the model as currently defined, returns only job attributes
or printer attributes for the GetAttributes and GetJobs operations.
Bob Herriot
> From jkm@underscore.com Thu Jun 12 14:52:39 1997
>
> I agree entirely with the need to have separate "Get Attributes"
> operations for Job(s) and Printer, particularly given security
> considerations.
>
> ...jay
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> From ipp-owner@pwg.org Thu Jun 12 17:34 EDT 1997
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:22:07 PDT
> To: ipp@pwg.org
> From: Carl-Uno Manros <cmanros@cp10.es.xerox.com>
> Subject: IPP> SEC & MOD - Get-Attributes operation
>
> We have just finished our SEC conference call for today and feel confident
> that we now have all the important stuff that we expect to provide in the
> document and will issue a new I-D shortly. We expect to discuss with the
> Protocol group on Tuesday, what they might still need from us to go into
> their document.
>
> One issue that came up, was related to the Get-Attributes operation.
>
> It is quite possible that a particular Job on a printer has different
> security requirements than getting information about the Printer itself.
> The Job security level is often determined by the job owner, while the
> Printer security level is determined by the printer administrator.
>
> This seems to be a good reason to split up the Get-Attributes into a
> Get-Job-Attributes and a Get-Printer-Attributes operation.
> (Remember we created two new ones yesterday, so we are on the roll here :-)
>
> I know that we have had this kind of discussion previously, but this is a
> new argument that has now come up in support of making a split.
>
> As far as I can remember from last time we discussed this, there are
> situations in which you want to get back both Printer attributes and Job
> attributes in a response (e.g. printer status, when you ask about job
> status), but is that really a strong enough reason to only have one
> Get-Attributes operation, or should we rather consider making some special
> rules for things like status information?
>
> Comments?
>
> Carl-Uno
>
>
> Carl-Uno Manros
> Principal Engineer - Advanced Printing Standards - Xerox Corporation
> 701 S. Aviation Blvd., El Segundo, CA, M/S: ESAE-231
> Phone +1-310-333 8273, Fax +1-310-333 5514
> Email: manros@cp10.es.xerox.com
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