Re: IPP> Disable-Accepding-Jobs & Enable-Accepting-Jobs

Tom Hastings <hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com> Fri, 10 July 1998 04:03 UTC

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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:54:13 PDT
To: don@lexmark.com
From: Tom Hastings <hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: IPP> Disable-Accepding-Jobs & Enable-Accepting-Jobs
Cc: Paul Moore <Paulmo@microsoft.com>, Ipp@pwg.org
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I agree that we need to be careful on "function creep".  On the other hand:

1. some of the useful new operations being proposed are also only for
operators, such as PausePrinter and PurgePrinter.  

2. More over, a way to disable/disable an IPP Printer from accepting jobs 
fits in as an optional operation for use with IPP/1.0, in that there is 
already a Printer attribute: "printer-is-accepting" jobs that has no way 
to be set true or false in the protocol, even though there is also an IPP/1.0
error status to return if the value is 'false' and a client attempts
to submit a job.

3. Finally, the operations being proposed (PausePrinter) also stop new 
jobs from being submitted from an IPP Printer to a device, so also being 
able to prevent jobs from being submitted to the IPP Printer is a 
natural operation to have.

Tom


At 15:17 07/07/98 PDT, don@lexmark.com wrote:
>I think we have quickly gone over the edge already.  Once we start adding
>these kind of functions, we are starting the "function creep" process all
>over again.  One of the problems with the existing IPP definition is that
>taken individually, each and ever function and enhancement we added made
>sense.  However, on the whole, IPP swelled to enormous proportions.  We
>need to strongly push back on going beyond the simple MS operational
>enhancements until we have some real world experience and customer feedback
>on IPP 1.0.
>
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