Ira and others,
SLP service de/registrations and requests are all language tagged.
This means that the attributes and other strings which are transported
by SLP are always explicitely language specific. This is in full
conformance with RFC 2277. There is no need to include an attribute
identifying the language of the other attributes since there is an
explicit language tagging used in every SLP message. This language
tag is exactly that specified by RFC 1766.
Erik
Ira McDonald wrote:
>
> Hi Hugo,
>
> Thanks for the quick and thorough response.
>
> Let me comment on 'natural-language-configured'. Like ALL of
> the IPP-derived attributes in the SLP 'printer:' template, it
> is meant to accurately reflect the actual configuration of
> the IPP Printer object. However, since SLP (and LDAP) don't
> have any standard base datatype 'textWithLanguage', the
> 'natural-language-configured' attribute does double duty
> to specify the language of SLP (and IPP Printer object)
> attributes with 'textWithLanguage' or 'nameWithLanguage'
> (such as site-administered media names, which are very
> important in enterprise printing environments).
>
> This is conformant with RFC 2277 (IETF Policy on Charsets
> and Languages) which MANDATES that all application protocols
> which transfer text shall explicitly convey the language
> of that text. It is NOT optional for an IETF standards-track
> document to put language-tags on text attributes. It is
> a requirement to stay on the Internet 'standards track'.
>
> We COULD have a separate attribute for the language
> of the SLP 'printer:' template text and site-name
> attributes, but it seems an entirely reasonable simplification
> to presume that a system administrator would: 1) install
> a network printer (connectivity setup); 2) set the
> 'natural-language-configured' of that printer; and 3) set
> various site-specific info attributes of that printer.
> So the current SLP 'printer:' template makes sense.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira McDonald (outside consultant at Xerox)
> High North Inc
> 716-461-5667 (w/ voice mail)
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