RFC 3998 on Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Job and Printer Administrative Operations

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        RFC 3998

        Title:      Internet Printing Protocol (IPP):
                    Job and Printer Administrative Operations
        Author(s):  C. Kugler, H. Lewis, T. Hastings, Ed.
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       March 2005
        Mailbox:    kugler@us.ibm.com, harryl@us.ibm.com,
                    hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com
        Pages:      46
        Characters: 109658
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ipp-ops-set2-04.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3998.txt

This document specifies the following 16 additional OPTIONAL system
administration operations for use with the Internet Printing
Protocol/1.1 (IPP), plus a few associated
attributes, values, and status codes, and using
the IPP Printer object to manage printer fan-out and fan-in.

   Printer operations:                       Job operations:
   Enable-Printer and Disable-Printer        Reprocess-Job
   Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job           Cancel-Current-Job
   Hold-New-Jobs and Release-Held-New-Jobs   Suspend-Current-Job
   Deactivate-Printer and Activate-Printer   Resume-Job
   Restart-Printer                           Promote-Job
   Shutdown-Printer and Startup-Printer      Schedule-Job-After

This document is a product of the Internet Printing Protocol Working
Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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