Re: [PWG5100.18] Issue #127: Resolve potential conflicts between INFRA and EPX that involve "job-state"

Smith,

We should discuss this at the face-to-face when we talk about EPX prototyping (don't forget your slides!), and this specific concern has been sitting in our backlog of INFRA/SYSTEM errata issues...


> On Nov 6, 2023, at 3:53 PM, Smith Kennedy via ipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [Issue Unconfirmed]
> 
> INFRA page 31 Note 1 says "Jobs in the 'pending-held' state cannot be
> fetchable or fetched, and so are not assigned to an Output Device." Aside
> from the fact that it is inappropriate for normative statements to be
> articulated in notes, this requirement is in conflict with several of the
> features defined in IPP Enterprise Printing Extensions v2.0.
> 
> IPP Enterprise Printing Extensions v2.0 defines several features that
> involve very specific management of a Job's state. For example, Job Release
> defines a Release Job as being one that remains in 'pending-held' state
> until a particular condition is met.
> 
> The Infrastructure Printer needs guidance on how to handle these types of
> issues. For instance, it could be stated in INFRA that the Infrastructure
> Printer MUST NOT place the Job in 'pending-held' state, to resolve any
> issues such as the example described above. A deeper examination of all the
> possible scenarios where a Job may be placed in 'pending-held' should be
> made to evaluate whether this solution will work.
> 
> Link: http://www.pwg.org/issues/127
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