[IPP] Re: Proposal for IPP organizational attributes

[IPP] Re: Proposal for IPP organizational attributes

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 16:43:22 UTC 2010


Hi Mike,

Agreed - I made them '127' to align with printer-info
and printer-location (both of which SHOULD have
been longer for internationalization).

Also, they both SHOULD be '1setOf (text)', because
they're multi-valued in both LDAP and X.520 specs.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Co-Chair - TCG Hardcopy WG
IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> Comments inline...
>
> On Aug 22, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Ira McDonald wrote:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>                IPP Organizational Location Attributes
>>
>> printer-organization (text(127))
>
> Is 127 octets sufficient?  I checked both the X.520 and LDAP definitions and did not see a specific limit defined.
>
> I would actually think that text(MAX) would be more appropriate.
>
>>
>> This REQUIRED Printer attribute specifies the name of the organization
>> (e.g., company, university, social club, etc.) that is administratively
>> associated with this Printer.
>>
>> See:  Section 5.4.1 'OrganizationName' in ITU-T [X.520] and the derived
>> section 2.19 'o' in IETF LDAP User Schema [RFC4519].
>>
>>
>> printer-organizational-unit (text(127))
>
> Ditto for this one.
>
>>
>> This REQUIRED Printer attribute specifies the name of the organizational
>> unit (e.g., 'Human Resources', 'Finance', etc.) that is functionally
>> associated with this Printer.
>>
>> See:  Section 5.4.2 'OrganizationalUnitName' in ITU-T [X.520] and the
>> derived section 2.20 'ou' in LDAP User Schema [RFC4519].
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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