I do not see a conflict with the IPP RFC in doing this. It would,
in fact, probably be a good way to handle the issues of 'particular
URI formats for portability'.
Also, an informational RFC and 'Best Practices' is not binding...
just gentle hints.
Patrick Powell
> From ipp-owner@pwg.org Fri Sep 5 11:39:50 1997
> From: Paul Moore <paulmo@microsoft.com>
> To: "'Roger K Debry'" <rdebry@us.ibm.com>, ipp@pwg.org
> Subject: RE: IPP>MOD Why use Job-Id instead of Job-URI for Jobs?
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:03:53 -0700
>
> We discussed this at the august meeting. You cannot extract the jobid
> from the job-URI. Remember a 'particluar implmentation' has no meaning
> for things visible in a wire protocol. There is both the client and the
> server - if the url is to be in a specifc format then both sides must
> agree to this. The only way that this would work is if we mandated the
> url format (which we discussed doing and voted against)