MFD> Template Service --> Resource Service [DPA/IPP prior art]

From: Ira McDonald (blueroofmusic@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2008 - 11:47:39 EDT

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    Hi Nancy,

    After reading the excellent minutes from the MFD sessions in
    Colorado, I wanted to provide some background on prior art
    for the term "Resource" in printing protocols.

    Resource is a first-class object in ISO DPA (ISO 10175)
    - see section 9.8 of ISO 10175-1 - it contains fonts, forms,
    logos, etc. (so-called "document resources").

    In 2008, I wrote an IPP extension for Resources in collaboration
    Tom Hastings (Xerox) and several contibutors from Novell:

      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_RES/draft-ietf-ipp-get-resource-01.txt

    Ultimately this work was not pursued in the IETF IPP WG, due
    to several alternate proposals (one object for each Resource
    type), the inclusion of Driver resources (later separated), and
    the imminent demise of the IETF IPP WG.

    But as Ted Tronson (Novell) pointed out in March this year,
    Novell iPrint supports the private operations:

    0x401D novell-resource-add
    0x401E novell-resource-list
    0x401F novell-resource-delete
    0x4020 novell-resource-download

    One important design constraint - both ISO DPA and the IPP
    work-in-progress did NOT support "document data". I strongly
    urge that any new Resource Service SHOULD NOT support
    the storage or retrieval of "document data". Fonts, etc., have
    unique copyright and intellectual property constraints that do
    NOT apply to user document data. Conversely, user document
    data has privacy and access control constraints very different
    from fonts, etc.

    I suggest that you review the IPP work-in-progress for the
    well-documented set of attributes (properties) of the Resource
    object. May as well be coherent, while re-inventing the wheel...

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    PS - I would be happy to contribute to the Resource Service
    spec and to bring some DPA/IPP context to this discussion. 

    -- 
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
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