RFC3382

Network Working Group R. deBry Request for Comments: 3382 Utah Valley State College Updates: 2910, 2911 R. Herriot Category: Standards Track Consultant

                                                         T. Hastings
                                                             K. Ocke
                                                           P. Zehler
                                                   Xerox Corporation
                                                      September 2002

               Internet Printing Protocol (IPP):
               The 'collection' attribute syntax

Status of this Memo

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

This document specifies an OPTIONAL attribute syntax called 'collection' for use with the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP/1.0 and IPP/1.1). A 'collection' is a container holding one or more named values, which are called "member" attributes. A collection allows data to be grouped like a PostScript dictionary or a Java Map. This document also specifies the conformance requirements for a definition document that defines a collection attribute. Finally, this document gives some illustrative example collection attribute definitions that are not intended as actual attribute specifications.

Authors' Addresses

Roger deBry Utah Valley State College Orem, UT 84058

Phone: (801) 222-8000 EMail: [email protected]

Tom Hastings Xerox Corporation 737 Hawaii St. ESAE 231 El Segundo, CA 90245

Phone: 310-333-6413 Fax: 310-333-5514 EMail: [email protected]

Robert Herriot Consultant 706 Colorado Ave Palo Alto, CA 94303

Phone: 650-327-4466 Fax: 650-327-4466 EMail: [email protected]

Kirk Ocke Xerox Corp. 800 Phillips Rd M/S 128-30E Webster, NY 14580

Phone: (585) 442-4832 EMail: [email protected]

Peter Zehler Xerox Corp. 800 Phillips Rd M/S 128-30E Webster, NY 14580

Phone: (585) 265-8755 EMail: [email protected]

IPP Web Page: http://www.pwg.org/ipp/ IPP Mailing List: [email protected]

To subscribe to the ipp mailing list, send the following email:

 1) send it to [email protected]
 2) leave the subject line blank
 3) put the following two lines in the message body:
      subscribe ipp
      end

Implementers of this specification document are encouraged to join the IPP Mailing List in order to participate in any discussions of clarification issues and review of registration proposals for additional attributes and values. In order to reduce spam the mailing list rejects mail from non-subscribers, so you must subscribe to the mailing list in order to send a question or comment to the mailing list.

Full Copyright Statement

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.

This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than English.

The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.

This document and the information contained herein is provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Acknowledgement

Funding for the RFC Editor function is currently provided by the Internet Society.