IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP>MOD Why use Job-Id instead of Job-URI for Jobs?

Re: IPP>MOD Why use Job-Id instead of Job-URI for Jobs?

Robert Herriot (Robert.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM)
Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:50:52 -0700

> From jkm@underscore.com Fri Sep 5 15:20:56 1997
>
> > But Microsoft clients cannot assume that all IPP servers will be
> > Microsoft servers. Thus the client has no sure way to parse the
> > Job-URI.
>
> So again I ask: exactly why can't (or shouldn't) we standardize on
> a Job URI syntax? (I really regret not being able to have made the
> Redmond meeting.)
>

I don't recollect a lot of reasons given on why there should not a
standard syntax. I think there was a general philosophy that we
shouldn't specify the syntax of URIs and, as I recollect, the people in
Munich had the same reaction when we discussed this topic.

Even if we did specify the syntax for a Job-URI, there is still the
problem that its printer-URI constituent might be different from
the printer-URI to which the job was submitted. That is also a
problem for a gateway because a gateway assumes that a job is named by
the printer to which the job was submitted plus a job-Id. If the
job-printer is different, the gateway would have to "remember" that.