IPP Mail Archive: Re: IFX> Re: IPP> REG - Proposal for &q

Re: IFX> Re: IPP> REG - Proposal for "job-recipient-name" Job Template attribute

From: Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 09:17:57 EDT

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    "McDonald, Ira" wrote:
    >
    > Hi Mike,
    >
    > Here's a way to have our cake and eat it.
    >
    > The attribute 'job-recipient-name' is specified to be
    > a person's full name, network user name, or whatever
    > name's descriptive to humans (but NOT meant to be
    > parsed by automated software).
    >
    > A different attribute 'job-recipient-role' could hold
    > 'none', 'operator', 'admin', 'technician', etc. for
    > jobs that need to reach someone who fills a particular
    > role in the local network environment. If the attribute
    > type was (keyword | name) then we could also let users
    > specify roles like 'accounting', 'payroll', etc.

    Now *that's* a good idea! :)

    I'd only ammend this to add an empty job-recipient-name attribute
    means that the actual recipient is unknown, and a member of the
    job-recipient-role attribute should be used instead. 

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