IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP>MOD - Phone Number?

Re: IPP>MOD - Phone Number?

Carl-Uno Manros (cmanros@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:03:14 PDT

At 12:44 PM 9/2/97 PDT, Roger K Debry wrote:
>I've had a request from one of our operating system folks to
>see if we could add a job attribute for a phone number. This
>would allow me to send a job to a server that called the number
>to deliver the output on a fax machine.
>
>Any thoughts???
>
>Roger K deBry

Roger,

so far, we have avoided stepping on the toes of the IFAX group, which is
what I think this would lead up to. Also, I do not see the real need for
this. If your output device happens to be a fax machine, your IPP Printer
should know how to contact the fax machine; it could even be sneaky enough
to include it a part of the Printer URI. I know that this would require a
unique IPP Printer id for every fax machine, but if you want to start
defining a fax off ramp (in IFAX terminology) as part of IPP, you are going
to need a lot more than just the phone number, apart from making enemies in
the IFAX camp.

In summary, I think we should leave this for implementors that might like
to provide bridges between IPP and IFAX (or current fax) in their products.

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