Tom, Mike,
I too would like to see the "job-recipient-name" attribute have a syntax of
type2 keyword | name(MAX). I would also like to see the
"job-recipient-name" attribute be a job description attribute as opposed to
a job template attribute. I do not see any advantage in the
"job-recipient-name-supported" or "job-recipient-name-default"
"job-recipient-name-supported" is not needed since the length of the name
syntax has already been defined and should not be truncated. (What is
printed on a banner sheet should be left to an implementation.) The
"job-recipient-name-default" would be covered in the specification. Having
the default be equivalent to the keyword 'none' would work for me. As an
implementer I would put both the "job-recipient-name" and the
"job-originating-user-name" on the banner sheet.
Pete
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sweet [mailto:mike@easysw.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 8:15 PM
To: Hastings, Tom N
Cc: ipp (E-mail); QUALDOCS DL (E-mail)
Subject: Re: IPP> REG - Proposal for "job-recipient-name" Job Template
attribute
"Hastings, Tom N" wrote:
> ...
> If the client omits this attribute in a create request, the printer
> MAY use the "job-recipient-name-default" (name(MAX)) Printer
> attribute value, unless it has not been configured by the
> administrator, or MAY use the "authenticated user" name (see
> [IPP-MOD] section 8.3), depending on implementation.
> ...
What if the default has not been configured? Will the -default
attribute contain an empty string, or will it be passed as a
no-value?
I'm thinking this and the job-recipient-name attribute may need to
be a type2 keyword | name(MAX), with keywords like:
none
administrator
operator
to specify no specific recipient or the current admin/operator for
the device.
> The "job-recipient-name-supported" (integer(0:255) Printer attribute
> indicates the maximum length that the Printer will accept for the
> "job-recipient-name" Job Template attribute without truncation. A
> ...
Since the client will likely not know how to shorten a name so that
it remains unique, and since the recipient name will probably need
to be a valid name on the destination system anyways, having an
attribute that specifies the maximum number of significant characters
isn't all that useful IMHO.
Also, since the -supported attributes usually enumerate the supported
values for an attribute, it might make more sense to name it
"job-reciepient-name-max" instead.
-- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike@easysw.com Printing Software for UNIX http://www.easysw.com
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