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Minutes of the PWG - JMP Nashua, June, 1997

IETF Disclaimer

Although decisions regarding the development of IETF standards
are ultimately wrought via the internet, face-to-face meetings
of interested parties capable of attending can often accelerate
the consensus process. The PWG facilitates such meetings on a
monthly basis for active workgroups. These are the (very brief)
minutes of the PWG meeting of the Job MIB Project which
currently pertains directly to the IETF chartered Job MIB
working group. 

JMP Meeting

The PWG JMP meeting started after dinner on Thursday, June 26.
The meeting ran from appx. 8pm to 11pm. The JMP meeting
continued Friday, June 27 between 8:30AM and 12:30PM. During
these two meetings, all known outstanding issues were covered,
discussed and resolved among the attendees. See Tom Hastings PWG
ftp/pub/pwg/jmp/contributions/ISSUES.pdf for complete details.



Two issues resulted in structural change to the MIB.



1. Moving the attribute JobOwner directly into the
JobStateTable. This was to accommodate “out-of’band” UNIX spool
and print job monitors which use JobOwner as a key identifier.



2. Enlarging jmJobSubmissionID to 48 bytes total, swapping the
order of the numeric vs. string parts and making this object
fixed length.



Two other issues have been introduced by Xerox post meeting.
One, a severe change, is the recommendation to split the
attribute table into separate tables for Integer and Octet
values. Currently, a job attribute may have an Integer and/or
Octet value, both of which are represented in the same table
entry. The other new issue pertains to localization. Again, see
Tom’s updated issues list. 



There was overriding consensus at the Nashua JMP meeting that no
further issues are to be encouraged! This consensus should be
tested via the mailing list for IETF purposes.



We did not pass a sign-up sheet, but this is my best
recollection of who attended the Nashua JMP. Please feel free to
correct this list.



* Lee Farrell - Canon

* Jeff Copeland - QMS

* Bob Pentecost - HP

* Tom Hastings - Xerox

* Harry Lewis - IBM

* Stuart Rowley - Kyocera

* J.K. Martin - Underscore

* Chuck Adams - Tektronix

* Rick Landau - Digital

* Angelo Caruso - Xerox

* Jasper Wong - Xionics

* Charles Gordon - Osicom

* David Kellerman - Northlake Software

* Lloyd Young - Lexmark

* Jeff Rackowitz - Intermec Corp