IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP>MOD - Job-URI vs. JOb-ID

Re: IPP>MOD - Job-URI vs. JOb-ID

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:51:08 PDT

> So, the issue I would like to raise is the possibility for defining and
> registering a jmJobSubmissionID format wherein the first 2 bytes are the
> registration ID, the next 38 bytes are IPP Printer URI and the last 8
> bytes are the jmJobIndex - and call this the IPP Job URI. I think this
> would satisfy the compatibility, migration and scalabality concerns.

Uh, there's no length limit for URIs, and certainly '38 bytes' isn't
long enough even for many domain names.

Just what 'compatibility' issues do you think are satisfied?

Larry

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