Re: What value do IPP Printers provide for "printer-name"?

Michael Sweet via ipp <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:45:42 -0400

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Smith,

> On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:22 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & IPP Standards) <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> So the attributes involved in a discussion were:
> 
> printer-name (RFC 2911 / 8011 - required)
> printer-make-and-model (RFC 2911 / 8011 - recommended)
> printer-dns-sd-name (PWG 5100.13 - required)
> 
> The wording of "printer-name" makes it sound like it should be a unique name, not a model name...

A printer by any other name would smell as sweet?

From RFC 8011, "printer-name" is *not* a unique name, just a more friendly one:

    5.4.4.  printer-name (name(127))

       This REQUIRED Printer attribute contains the name of the Printer.  It
       is a name that is more End User friendly than a URI.  An
       Administrator determines a Printer's name and sets this attribute to
       that name.  This name can be the last part of the Printer's URI, or
       it can be unrelated.  In non-US-English locales, a name can contain
       characters that are not allowed in a URI.

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