INTERNET-DRAFT     There are 7 issues in this draft  R. Herriot (editor)
<draft-ietf-ipp-not-spec-03.txt>                       Xerox Corporation
                                                             T. Hastings
                                                       Xerox Corporation
                                                                R. deBry
                                               Utah Valley State College
                                                             S. Isaacson
                                                            Novell, Inc.
                                                               J. Martin
                                                              Underscore
                                                             M. Shepherd
                                                       Xerox Corporation
                                                              R. Bergman
                                          Hitachi Koki Imaging Solutions
                                                           June 30, 2000
                   Internet Printing Protocol (IPP):
                  IPP Event Notification Specification

    Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.


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Abstract

This document describes an extension to the IPP/1.0, IPP/1.1, and future
versions. This extension allows a client to subscribe to printing
related Events. Subscriptions are modeled as Subscription Objects.  The
Subscription Object specifies that when one of the specified Event
occurs, the Printer sends an asynchronous Event Notification to the
specified Notification Recipient via the specified Delivery Method
(i.e., protocol).  A client associates Subscription Objects with a
particular Job by performing the Create-Job-Subscriptions operation or
by submitting a Job with subscription information.  A client associates
Subscription Objects with the Printer by performing a Create-Printer-
Subscriptions operation.  Four other operations are defined for



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Subscription Objects: Get-Subscriptions-Attributes, Get-Subscriptions,
Renew-Subscription, and Cancel-Subscription.






















































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The full set of IPP documents includes:

  Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol [RFC2567]
  Rationale for the Structure and Model and Protocol for the Internet
     Printing Protocol [RFC2568]
  Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics  [IPP-MOD]
  Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport [IPP-PRO]
  Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer.s Guide [IPP-IIG]
  Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols [RFC2569]

The .Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol. document takes a
broad look at distributed printing functionality, and it enumerates
real-life scenarios that help to clarify the features that need to be
included in a printing protocol for the Internet.  It identifies
requirements for three types of users: end users, Operators, and
Administrators.  It calls out a subset of end user requirements that are
satisfied in IPP/1.0.  Operator and Administrator requirements are out
of scope for version 1.0.  A few OPTIONAL Operator operations have been
added to IPP/1.1.

The .Rationale for the Structure and Model and Protocol for the Internet
Printing Protocol. document describes IPP from a high level view,
defines a roadmap for the various documents that form the suite of IPP
specifications, and gives background and rationale for the IETF working
group.s major decisions.

The .Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics., describes a
simplified model with abstract objects, their attributes, and their
operations that are independent of encoding and transport. It introduces
a Printer object and a Job object. The Job object optionally supports
multiple documents per Job. It also addresses security,
internationalization, and directory issues.

The .Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport. document is
a formal mapping of the abstract operations and attributes defined in
the model document onto HTTP/1.1.  It defines the encoding rules for a
new Internet MIME media type called .application/ipp..  This document
also defines the rules for transporting over HTTP a message body whose
Content-Type is .application/ipp..  This document defines a new scheme
named .ipp. for identifying IPP printers and jobs.  Finally, this
document defines interoperability rules for supporting IPP/1.0 clients.

The .Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer.s Guide. document gives
insight and advice to implementers of IPP clients and IPP objects.  It
is intended to help them understand IPP/1.0 and some of the
considerations that may assist them in the design of their client and/or
IPP object implementations.  For example, a typical order of processing
requests is given, including error checking.  Motivation for some of the
specification decisions is also included.

The .Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols. document gives some advice
to implementers of gateways between IPP and LPD (Line Printer Daemon)
implementations.


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                           Table of Contents


1 Introduction.......................................................7
  1.1  Notification Overview.........................................7

2 Models for Notification............................................9
  2.1  Model for Notification (Simple Case)..........................9
  2.2  Model for Notification with Cascading Printers...............10
  2.3  Distributed Model for Notification...........................10
  2.4  Extended Notification Recipient..............................11

3 Terminology.......................................................11
  3.1  Conformance Terminology......................................11
  3.2  Other Terminology............................................11

4 Object Relationships..............................................13
  4.1  Printer and Per-Printer Subscription Objects.................13
  4.2  Printer, Job and Per-Job Subscription Objects................14

5 Subscription Object...............................................14
  5.1  Rules for Support of Subscription Template Attributes........14
  5.2  Rules for Processing Subscription Template Attributes........15
  5.3  Subscription Template Attributes.............................18
     5.3.1 notify-recipient-uri (uri)...............................20
     5.3.2 notify-events (1setOf type2 keyword).....................20
     5.3.3 notify-attributes (1setOf type2 keyword).................26
     5.3.4 notify-user-data (octetString(63)).......................27
     5.3.5 notify-charset (charset).................................27
     5.3.6 notify-natural-language (naturalLanguage)................28
     5.3.7 notify-lease-duration (integer(0:67108863))..............28
     5.3.8 notify-persistence (boolean).............................29
  5.4  Subscription Description Attributes..........................30
     5.4.1 notify-subscription-id  (integer (1:MAX))................31
     5.4.2 notify-sequence-number (integer (0:MAX)).................31
     5.4.3 notify-lease-expiration-time (integer(0:MAX))............32
     5.4.4 notify-printer-up-time (integer(1:MAX))..................32
     5.4.5 notify-printer-uri (uri).................................33
     5.4.6 notify-job-id (integer(1:MAX))...........................33
     5.4.7 notify-subscriber-user-name (name(MAX))..................33

6 Printer Description Attributes Related to Notification............34
  6.1  notify-max-printer-subscriptions-supported (integer(0:MAX))..34
  6.2  notify-max-job-subscriptions-supported (integer(0:MAX))......34
  6.3  printer-state-change-time (integer(1:MAX))...................35
  6.4  printer-state-change-date-time (dateTime)....................35

7 New Values for Existing Printer Description Attributes............36
  7.1  operations-supported (1setOf type2 enum).....................36

8 Attributes Only in Event Notifications............................36
  8.1  notify-subscribed-event (type2 keyword)......................36
  8.2  notify-text (text(MAX))......................................37


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9 Event Notification Content........................................37
  9.1  Content of Machine Consumable Event Notifications............38
     9.1.1 Attributes in Event Notification Content Common to All
     Events .........................................................39
     9.1.2 Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for Job
     Events .........................................................40
     9.1.3 Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for
     Printer Events..................................................41
  9.2  Content of Human Consumable Event Notification...............41
     9.2.1 Information in Event Notification Content Common to All
     Events .........................................................42
     9.2.2 Additional Information in Event Notification Content for Job
     Events .........................................................43
     9.2.3 Additional Information in Event Notification Content for
     Printer Events..................................................44

10Delivery Methods..................................................44

11Operations for Notification.......................................46
  11.1 Subscription Creation Operations.............................46
     11.1.1 Create-Job-Subscriptions Operation......................46
     11.1.2 Create-Printer-Subscriptions operation...................48
     11.1.3 Job Creation Operation . Extensions for Notification....49
  11.2 Other Operations.............................................51
     11.2.1Validate-Job Operation - Extensions for Notification.....51
     11.2.2Get-Printer-Attributes - Extensions for Notification.....52
     11.2.3Get-Subscription-Attributes operation....................52
     11.2.4Get-Subscriptions operation..............................54
     11.2.5Renew-Subscription operation.............................57
     11.2.6Cancel-Subscription operation............................59

12Conformance Requirements..........................................60

13IANA Considerations...............................................61
  13.1 Format and Requirements for IPP Delivery Method Registration
  Proposals.........................................................62

14Internationalization Considerations...............................62

15Security Considerations...........................................63

16Status Codes......................................................63
  16.1 successful-ok-ignored-subscriptions (0x0003).................63
  16.2 client-error-ignored-all-subscriptions (0x0414)..............64

17Status Codes in Subscription Attributes Groups....................64
  17.1 client-error-uri-scheme-not-supported (0x040C)...............64
  17.2 client-error-too-many-subscriptions (0x0415).................64
  17.3 successful-ok-too-many-events (0x0005).......................65
  17.4 successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes (0x0001).....65

18Encodings of Additional Attribute Tags............................65

19References........................................................65


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20Author.s Addresses................................................66

A.Appendix - Model for Notification with Cascading Printers.........67

B.Appendix - Distributed Model for Notification.....................68

C.Appendix - Extended Notification Recipient........................69

D.Appendix - Details about Conformance Terminology..................70

E.Appendix - Object Model for Notification..........................71
  E.1  Appendix - Object relationships..............................71
  E.2  Printer Object and Per-Printer Subscription Objects..........72
  E.3  Job Object and Per-Job Subscription Objects..................72

F.Appendix - Per-Job versus Per-Printer Subscription Objects........72

G.Appendix: Full Copyright Statement................................73



                                 Tables
Table 1 . Subscription Template Attributes...........................19
Table 2 . Subscription Description Attributes........................30
Table 3 . Printer Description Attributes Associated with Notification34
Table 4 . Operation-id assignments...................................36
Table 5 . Attributes in Event Notification Content....................39
Table 6 . Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for Job
   Events...........................................................40
Table 7 . Combinations of Events and Subscribed Events for .job-
   impressions-completed............................................41
Table 8 . Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for
   Printer Events...................................................41
Table 9 . Printer Name in Event Notification Content.................42
Table 10 . Event Name in Event Notification Content..................43
Table 11 . Event Time in Event Notification Content..................43
Table 12 . Job Name in Event Notification Content for Job Events.....43
Table 13 . Job State in Event Notification Content for Job Events....44
Table 14 . Printer State in Event Notification Content for Printer
   Events...........................................................44
Table 15 . Conformance Requirements for Operations...................61


                                Figures
Figure 1 . Model for Notification....................................10
Figure 2 . Model for Notification with Cascading Printers............68
Figure 3 . Opaque Use of a Notification Service Transparent to the
   Client............................................................69
Figure 4 . Use of an Extended Notification Recipient transparent to the
   Printer..........................................................70
Figure 5 . Object Model for Notification.............................71





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1  Introduction


This IPP notification specification is an extension to IPP/1.0 [RFC2568,
RFC2569] and IPP/1.1 [ipp-mod, ipp-pro].  This document in combination
with the following documents is intended to meet the notification
requirements described in [ipp-not-req]:

     Internet Printing Protocol (IPP):  .Job Progress Attributes. [ipp-
     prog]
     One or more Delivery Method Documents registered with IANA (see
     section 13).


Note: this document does not define any Delivery Methods, but it does
define the rules for conformance for Delivery Method Documents.

Refer to the Table of Contents for the layout of this document.


1.1 Notification Overview

This document defines operations that a client can perform in order to
create Subscription Objects in a Printer and carry out other operations
on them. A Subscription Object represents a Subscription abstraction.
The Subscription Object specifies that when one of the specified Events
occurs, the Printer sends an asynchronous Event Notification to the
specified Notification Recipient via the specified Delivery Method
(i.e., protocol).

When a client (called a Subscribing Client) performs an operation that
creates a Subscription Object, the operation contains one or more
Subscription Template Attributes Groups. Each such group holds
information used by the Printer to initialize a newly created
Subscription Object. The Printer creates one Subscription Object for
each Subscription Template Attributes Group in the operation. This group
is like the Job Template Attributes group defined in [ipp-mod]. The
following is an example of the information included in a Subscription
Template Attributes Group (see section 5 for details on the Subscription
Object attributes):

  1. The names of Subscribed Events that are of interest to the
     Notification Recipient.

  2. The address (URL) of one Notification Recipient.

  3. The Delivery Method (i.e., the protocol) which the Printer uses to
     send the Event Notification.

  4. Some opaque data that the Printer sends to the Notification
     Recipient in the Event Notification. The Notification Recipient
     might use this opaque data as a forwarding address for the Event
     Notification.

  5. The charset to use in text fields within an Event Notification

  6. The natural language to use in the text fields of the Event
     Notification



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  7. The requested lease time in seconds for the Subscription Object

An operation that creates a Subscription Object is called a Subscription
Creation Operation. These operations include the following operations
(see section 11.1 for further details):

- Job Creation operation: When a client performs such an operation
(Print-Job, Print-URI, and Create-Job), a client can include zero or
more Subscription Template Attributes Groups in the request.  The
Printer creates one Subscription Object for each Subscription Template
Attributes Group in the request, and the Printer associates each such
Subscription Object with the newly created Job. This document extends
these operations. definitions in [ipp-mod] by adding Subscription
Template Attributes Groups in the request and Subscription Attributes
Groups in the response.

- Create-Job-Subscriptions operation: A client can include one or more
Subscription Template Attributes Groups in the request.  The Printer
creates one Subscription Object for each Subscription Template
Attributes Group and associates each with the job that is the target of
this operation.

- Create-Printer-Subscriptions operation: A client can include one or
more Subscription Template Attributes Groups in the request.  The
Printer creates one Subscription Object for each Subscription Template
Attributes Group and associates each with the Printer that is the target
of this operation.

For each of the above operations:

the Printer associates a Subscription Object with the Printer or a
specific Job. When a Subscription Object is associated with a Job
Object, it is called a Per-Job Subscription Object. When a Subscription
Object is associated with a Printer Object, it is called a Per-Printer
Subscription Object.

the response contains one Subscription Attributes Group for each
Subscription Template Attributes Group in the request and in the same
order. When the Printer successfully creates a Subscription Object, its
corresponding Subscription Attributes Group contains the .notify-
subscription-id. attribute. This attribute uniquely identifies the
Subscription Object and is analogous to a .job-id. for a Job object.
Some operations described below use the .notify-subscription-id. to
identify the target Subscription Object.

This document adds the following additional operations (see section 11.2
for further details):

Validate-Job operation: When a client performs this operation, a client
can include zero or more Subscription Template Attributes Groups in the
request.  The Printer determines if it could create one Subscription
Object for each Subscription Template Attributes Group in the request.
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Subscription Template Attributes Groups in the request and Subscription
Attributes Groups in the response.

Get-Printer-Attributes operation:  This document extends this
operation.s definition in [ipp-mod] by adding:  Subscription Template
Attributes, Printer Description Attributes, attributes to existing group
names, and new group names for Get-Printer-Attributes to support.

Get-Subscription-Attributes operation: This operation allows a client to
obtain the specified attributes of a target Subscription Object.

Get-Subscriptions operation: This operation allows a client to obtain
the specified attributes of all Subscription Objects associated with the
Printer or a specified Job.

Renew-Subscription operation: This operation renews the lease on the
target Per-Printer Subscription Object before it expires. A newly
created Per-Printer Subscription Object receives an initial lease.  It
is the duty of the client to use this operation frequently enough to
preserve a Per-Printer Subscription Object. The Printer deletes a Per-
Printer Subscription Object when its lease expires. A Per-Job
Subscription Object last exactly as long as its associated Job Object
and thus doesn.t have a lease.

Cancel-Subscription operation: This operation cancels the lease on the
specified Per-Printer Subscription Object and thereby deletes the
Subscription Object.

When an Event occurs, the Printer finds all Subscription Objects
listening for the Event (see section 9 for details on finding such
Subscription Objects). For each such Subscription Object, the Printer:

  a) generates an Event Notification with information specified in
     section 9, AND

  b) either:

     i)delivers the Event Notification using the Delivery Method and
       target address identified in the Subscription Object.s .notify-
       recipient-uri. attribute if the Delivery Method is a .push., OR

     ii)  saves Event Notification for a time period defined by the
       Delivery Method if the Delivery Method is a .pull., i.e., the
       Notification Recipient is expected to fetch the Event
       Notifications.


2  Models for Notification


2.1 Model for Notification (Simple Case)

As part of a Subscription Creation Operation, an IPP Printer (i.e., an
output device or a server) creates one or more Subscription Objects. In
a Subscription Creation Operation, the client specifies the Notification
Recipient to which the Printer is to deliver Event Notifications.  A
Notification Recipient can be the Subscribing Client or a third party.


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Figure 1 shows the Notification model for a simple Client-Printer
relationship.


embedded printer:
                                        output device or server
   PDA, desktop, or server                 +---------------+
        +--------+                         |  ###########  |
        | client |-----Subscription ---------># Printer #  |
        +--------+  Creation Operation     |  # Object  #  |
     +------------+                        |  #####|#####  |
     |Notification|                        +-------|-------+
     |Recipient   |<----IPP Event Notifications----+
     +------------+    (Job and/or Printer Events)

                   Figure 1 . Model for Notification


2.2 Model for Notification with Cascading Printers

With this model, there is an intervening Print server between the human
user and the Printer in the output device. If the Printer in the output
device generates an Event, the system can be configured to send Event
Notification either

directly to the Notification Recipient specified by the Subscribing
Client or

via the Print Server to the Notification Recipient specified by the
Subscribing Client.

See Appendix A for more details.


2.3 Distributed Model for Notification

The preceding sections (2.1 and 2.2) assume that the Notification
software resides in the same device or Server box as the rest of the
Printer software. In many implementations, the assumption is correct.
However, the Notification model also permits a distributed
implementation.

For example, the software that supports both Subscription Creation
Operations and sending of Event Notifications could be on hardware that
is separate from the output device. To make this work, there must be a
symbiotic relationship between the output device software and the remote
Notification software. Without the remote Notification software, the
output device software is not a complete Printer.

The term .Printer. in this document includes the software on the output
device or server box as well as Notification software that is local to
or remote from the output device.

Appendix B describes this example in detail.




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2.4 Extended Notification Recipient

The model allows for an extended Notification Recipient that is itself a
Notification service that forwards each Event Notification to another
recipient. The client contacts this Notification Recipient to arrange
for forwarding by means outside the scope of this document. The Printer
need not be aware that the Notification Recipient forwards Event
Notifications.

Appendix C describes this example in detail.


3  Terminology


This section defines terminology used throughout this document.


3.1 Conformance Terminology

  Capitalized terms, such as MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHOULD, SHOULD
     NOT, MAY, NEED NOT, and OPTIONAL, have special meaning relating to
     conformance to this specification.  These terms are defined in
     [ipp-mod section 13.1 on conformance terminology, most of which is
     taken from RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. See Appendix D for complete details.

  READ-ONLY - an adjective used in an attribute definition to indicate
     that an IPP Printer MUST NOT allow the attribute.s value to be
     modified with the Set-Job-Attributes or Set-Printer-Attributes
     operations (see [ipp-set]).  Note:  there is no Set-Subscription
     operation so this term is not used for Subscription object
     attributes.


3.2 Other Terminology

  Administrator - A human user who establishes policy for and
     configures the print system.

  Operator - A human user who carries out the policy established by the
     Administrator and controls the day to day running of the print
     system.

  IPP Client (or client) - The software component (PDA, desktop, or
     server) that performs an IPP operation directed at an IPP Printer
     (server or output device).

  Job Creation operation - One of the operations that creates a Job
     object:  Print-Job, Print-URI and Create-Job.  The Validate-Job
     operation is not a Job Creation operation because no Job object is
     created.  Therefore, when a statement also applies to the Validate-
     Job operation, it is mentioned explicitly.

  Event  - some occurrence (either expected or unexpected) within the
     printing system of a change of state, condition, or configuration
     of a Job or Printer object. An Event occurs only at one instant in


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     time and does not span the time the physical Event takes place.
     For example, jam-occurred and jam-cleared are two distinct,
     instantaneous Events, even though the jam may last for a while.

  Job Event . an Event caused by some change in a particular job on the
     Printer, e.g., job-completed.

  Printer Event . an Event caused by some change in the Printer that is
     not specific to a job, e.g., printer-state-changed.

  Subscribed Event . an Event that the Subscribing Client expresses
     interest in by making it a value of the .notify-events. attribute
     on a Subscription Object.

  Subscribed Job Event . a Subscribed Event that is a Job Event.

  Subscribed Printer Event . a Subscribed Event that is a Printer
     Event.

  Event Notification  - the information about an Event that the Printer
     sends when an Event occurs.

  Notification Recipient  - the entity to which the Printer sends an
     Event Notification.

  Delivery Method  - the mechanism by which the Printer delivers the
     Event Notification, e.g., via email or via SNMP.

  Delivery Method Document - a document, separate from this document,
     that defines a Delivery Method.

  Subscription Object - An object containing a set of attributes that
     indicate: the Notification Recipient, the Delivery Method, the
     Subscribed Events that cause the Printer to send an Event
     Notification, and the information to send in an Event Notification.

  Per-Job Subscription Object - A Subscription Object that is
     associated with a single Job. The Create-Job-Subscriptions
     operation and Job Creation operations create such an object.

  Per-Printer Subscription Object - A Subscription Object that is
     associated with the Printer as a whole. The Create-Printer-
     Subscriptions operation creates such an object.

  Subscribing Client - The client that creates the Subscription Object.

  Subscription Creation Operation - An operation that creates a
     Subscription Object:  Job Creation operations, Create-Job-
     Subscriptions operation, and Create-Printer-Subscriptions
     operation. In the context of a Job Creation operation, a
     Subscription Creation Operation is the part of the Job Creation
     operation that creates a Subscription object.




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  Subscription Creation Request  . The request portion of a
     Subscription Creation Operation.

  Subscription Template Attributes  . Subscription Object attributes
     that a client can supply in a Subscription Creation Operation and
     associated Printer Object attributes that specify supported and
     default values for the Subscription Object attributes.

  Subscription Description Attributes  . Subscription Object attributes
     that a Printer supplies during a Subscription Creation Operation.

  Subscription Template Attributes Group . The attributes group in a
     request that contains Subscription Object attributes that are
     Subscription Template Attributes.

  Subscription Attributes Group  . The attributes group in a response
     that contains Subscription Object attributes.

  Human Consumable Event Notification . localized text for human
     consumption only.  There is no standardized format and thus
     programs should not try to parse this text.

  Machine Consumable Event Notification - bytes for program
     consumption. The bytes are formatted according to the Delivery
     Method document.

  Printer . the software that supports an output device or print server
     (see IPP/1.1 [ipp-mod] which uses the terms Printer and Printer
     object interchangeably). This document extends the IPP/1.1 Printer
     definition to include the software that implements Subscription
     Creation Operations and the sending of Event Notifications, even if
     the software for such a Printer would be distributed across a
     network (see section 2.3).

  Notification . when not in the phrases .Event Notification. and
     .Notification Recipient. . the concepts of this specification,
     i.e., Events, Subscription Objects, and Event Notifications.


4  Object Relationships


This section defines the object relationships between the Printer, Job,
and Subscription Objects.  It does not define the implementation. For an
illustration of these relationships, see Appendix E.


4.1 Printer and Per-Printer Subscription Objects

  1. A Printer object can be associated with zero or more Per-Printer
     Subscription Objects.

  2. Each Per-Printer Subscription Object is associated with exactly one
     Printer object.



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4.2 Printer, Job and Per-Job Subscription Objects

  1. A Printer object is associated with zero or more Job objects.

  2. Each Job object is associated with exactly one Printer object.

  3. A Job object is associated with zero or more Per-Job Subscription
     Objects.

  4. Each Per-Job Subscription Object is associated with exactly one Job
     object.


5  Subscription Object


A Subscribing Client creates a Subscription Object with a Subscription
Creation Operation in order to indicate its interest in certain Events.
See section 11 for a description of these operations. When an Event
occurs, the Subscription Object specifies to the Printer where to send
Event Notifications, how to send them and what to put in them. See
section 9 for details on the contents of an Event Notification.

Using the IPP Job Template attributes as a model (see [ipp-mod] section
4.2), the attributes of a Subscription Object are divided into two
categories: Subscription Template Attributes and Subscription
Description Attributes.

Subscription Template attributes are, in turn, like the Job Template
attributes, divided into

  1. Subscription Object attributes that a client can supply in a
     Subscription Creation Request and

  2. their associated Printer Object attributes that specify supported
     and default values for the Subscription Object attributes

The remainder of this section specifies general rules for Subscription
Template Attributes and describes each attribute in a Subscription
Object.


5.1 Rules for Support of Subscription Template Attributes

Subscription Template Attributes are fundamental to the Notification
model described in this specification. The client supplies these
attributes in Subscription Creation Operations and the Printer uses
these attributes to populate a newly created Subscription Object.

Subscription Objects attributes that are Subscription Template
Attributes conform to the following rules:

  1. Each attribute.s name starts with the prefix string .notify-. and
     this document calls such attributes .notify-xxx..



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  2. For each .notify-xxx. Subscription Object attribute defined in
     column 1 of Table 1, Table 1 specifies corresponding Printer
     attributes: .notify-xxx-default., .notify-xxx-supported., .yyy-
     supported. and .notify-max-xxx-supported. defined in column 2 of
     Table 1.

  3. If a Printer supports .notify-xxx. in column 1 of Table 1, then the
     Printer MUST support all associated attributes specified in column
     2 of Table 1. For example, Table 1 shows that if the Printer
     supports .notify-events., it MUST support .notify-events-default.,
     .notify-events-supported. and .notify-max-events-supported..

  4. If a Printer does not support .notify-xxx. in column 1 of Table 1,
     then the Printer MUST NOT support any associated .notify-yyy.
     attributes specified in column 2 of Table 1. For example, Table 1
     shows that if the Printer doesn.t support .notify-events., it MUST
     NOT support .notify-events-default., .notify-events-supported. and
     .notify-max-events-supported..  Note this rule does not apply to
     attributes whose names do not start with the string .notify-. and
     are thus defined in another object and used by other attributes.

  5. Most .notify-xxx. attributes have a corresponding .yyy-supported.
     attribute that specifies the supported values for .notify-xxx..
     Column 2 of Table 1 specifies the name of each .yyy-supported.
     attribute. The naming rules of IPP/1.1 (see [ipp-mod]) are used
     when .yyy-supported. is .notify-xxx-supported..

  6. Some .notify-xxx. attributes have a corresponding .notify-xxx-
     default. attribute that specifies the value for .notify-xxx. if the
     client does not supply it. Column 2 of Table 1 specifies the name
     of each .notify-xxx-default. attribute. The naming rules of IPP/1.1
     (see [ipp-mod]) are used.

If a client wishes to present an end user with a list of supported
values from which to choose, the client SHOULD query the Printer for its
supported value attributes.  The client SHOULD also query the default
value attributes.  If the client then limits selectable values to only
those values that are supported, the client can guarantee that the
values supplied by the client in the create request all fall within the
set of supported values at the Printer.  When querying the Printer, the
client MAY enumerate each attribute by name in the Get-Printer-
Attributes Request, or the client MAY just supply the .subscription-
template. group name in order to get the complete set of supported
attributes (both supported and default attributes).


5.2 Rules for Processing Subscription Template Attributes

This section defines a detailed set of rules that a Printer follows when
it processes Subscription Template Attributes in a Subscription Creation
Request. These rules are similar to the rules for processing Operation
attributes in [ipp-mod]. That is, the Printer may or may not support an
attribute and a client may or may not supply the attribute. Some



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combinations of these cases are OK. Others return warnings or errors,
and perhaps a list of unsupported attributes.

A Printer MUST implement the following behavior for processing
Subscription Template Attributes in a Subscription Creation Request:

  1. If a client supplies a .notify-xxx. attribute from column 1 of
     Table 1 and the Printer supports it and its value, the Printer MUST
     populate the attribute on the created Subscription Object.

  2. If a client supplies a .notify-xxx. attribute from column 1 of
     Table 1 and the Printer doesn.t support it or its value, the
     Printer MUST NOT populate the attribute on the created Subscription
     Object with it. The Printer MUST do one of the following:

     a)If the value of the .notify-xxx. attribute is unsupported, the
       Printer MUST return the attribute with its value in the
       Subscription Attributes Group of the response.

     b)If .notify-xxx. is an unsupported attribute, the Printer MUST
       return the attribute in the Subscription Attributes Group of the
       response with the .unsupported. out-of-band value.

     Note:  The rules of this step are the same as for Unsupported
     Attributes [ipp-mod] section 3.1.7. except that the unsupported
     attributes are returned in the Subscription Attributes Group rather
     than the Unsupported Attributes Group because Subscription Creation
     Operations can create more than one Subscription Object).

  3. If a client is REQUIRED to supply a .notify-xxx. attribute from
     column 1 of Table 1 and the Printer doesn.t support the supplied
     value, the Printer MUST NOT create a Subscription Object. The rules
     for Unsupported Attributes in step #2 still apply.

  4. If a client does not supply a .notify-xxx. attribute from column 1
     of Table 1 and the attribute is REQUIRED for the client to supply,
     the Printer MUST reject the Subscription Creation Operation
     (including Job Creation operations) without creating a Subscription
     Object, and MUST return in the response:

     c)the status code .client-error-bad-request. AND

     d)no Subscription Attribute Groups.

  5. If a client does not supply a .notify-xxx. attribute from column 1
     of Table 1 that is OPTIONAL for the client to supply, and column 2
     of Table 1 either:

     a)specifies a .notify-xxx-default. attribute, the Printer MUST
       behave as if the client had supplied the .notify-xxx-default.
       attribute (see step #1) and populate the Subscription object
       with the value of the .notify-xxx-default. attribute as part of
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       attributes where the Printer does not populate the Job object
       with defaults - see [ipp-mod]) OR

     b)does not specify a .notify-xxx-default. attribute, the Printer
       MUST populate the .notify-xxx. attribute on the Subscription
       Object according to the definition of the .notify-xxx. attribute
       in a section 5.3. For some attributes, the .notify-xxx. is
       populated with the value of some other attribute, and for
       others, the .notify-xxx. is NOT populated on the Subscription
       object at all.

  6. A Printer MUST create a Subscription Object for each Subscription
     Template Attributes group in a request unless the Printer:

     a)encounters some attributes in a Subscription Template Attributes
       Group that require the Printer not to create the Subscription
       Object OR

     b)would be a Per-Job Subscription Object and the number of Per-Job
       Subscription Objects already equals the value of the .notify-
       max-job-subscriptions-supported. Printer attribute OR

     c)would be a Per-Printer Subscription Object and the number of
       Per-Printer Subscription Objects already equals the value of the
       .notify-max-printer-subscriptions-supported. Printer attribute.

  7. A response MUST contain one Subscription Attributes Group for each
     Subscription Template Attributes Group in the request (and in the
     same order) whether the Printer creates a Subscription Object from
     the Subscription Template Attributes Group or not. However, the
     attributes in each Subscription Attributes Group can be in any
     order.

  8. The Printer MUST populate each Subscription Attributes Group of the
     response such that each contains:

     a)the .notify-subscription-id. attribute (see section 5.4.1), if
       and only if the Printer creates a Subscription Object.

     b)the .notify-lease-duration. attribute (see section 5.3.7), if
       and only if the Printer creates a Per-Printer Subscription
       Object. The value of this attribute is the value of the
       Subscription Object.s .notify-lease-duration. attribute. This
       value MAY be different from the client-supplied value (see
       section 5.3.7). If a client supplies this attribute in the
       creation of a Per-Job Subscription Object, it MUST appear in
       this group with the out-of-band value .unsupported. to indicate
       that the Printer doesn.t support it in this context.

     c)all of the unsupported Subscription Template Attributes from
       step #2.

     d)the .notify-status-code. attribute if the Printer does not
       create the Subscription Object or if there are unsupported


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       attributes from step #2. The possible values of the .notify-
       status-code. attribute are shown below (see section 17 for more
       details). The Printer returns the first value in the list below
       that describes the status.

          .client-error-uri-scheme-not-supported.:  the Subscription
            Object was not created because the scheme of the .notify-
            recipient-uri. attribute is not supported. See section 17.1
            for more details about this status code. See step #3 in
            this section for the case that causes this error, and the
            resulting step #6a) that causes the Printer not to create
            the Subscription Object.

          .client-error-too-many-subscriptions.:  the Subscription
            Object was not created because the number of Subscription
            Objects would exceed the value of the Printer.s .notify-
            max-job-subscriptions-supported. or .notify-max-printer-
            subscriptions-supported. attributes.  The client SHOULD try
            again later. See section 17.2 for more details about this
            status code. See steps #6b) and #6c) in this section for
            the cases that causes this error.

           .successful-ok-too-many-events.:  the Subscription Object was
            created without the .notify-events. values included in this
            Subscription Attributes Group because the .notify-events.
            attribute contains too many values. See section 17.3 for
            more details about this status code. See step #2 in this
            section and section 5.3.2 for the cases that cause this
            status code.

          .successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes. :  the
            Subscription Object was created but some supplied
            Subscription Template Attributes are unsupported. These
            unsupported attributes are also in the Subscription
            Attributes Group. See section 17.4 for more details about
            this status code. See step #2 in this section for the cases
            that cause this status code.

  9. The Printer MUST validate all Subscription Template Attributes and
     MUST return all unsupported attributes and values in the
     corresponding Subscription Attributes Group of the response (see
     step #2) unless it determines that it could not create additional
     Subscription Objects because of condition #6b) or condition #6c).
     Then, the Printer NEED NOT validate these additional Subscription
     Template Attributes and the client MUST NOT expect to find
     unsupported attributes from step #2 in such additional Subscription
     Attribute Groups.


5.3 Subscription Template Attributes

This section contains the Subscription Template Attributes defined for
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Table 1 below shows the Subscription Template Attributes and has two
columns:

Attribute in Subscription Object: the name and attribute syntax of each
Subscription Object Attribute that is a Subscription Template Attribute

Default and Supported Printer Attributes: the default attribute and
supported Printer attributes that are associated with the attribute in
column 1.

A Printer MUST support all attributes in Table 1 below except for
.notify-attributes. (and .notify-attributes-supported.). A client MUST
supply .notify-recipient-uri. and MAY omit any of the rest of the
attributes in column 1 of Table 1 in a Subscription Creation Request.

               Table 1 . Subscription Template Attributes

Attribute in Subscription      Default and Supported Printer
Object                         Attributes

notify-recipient-uri (uri)     notify-schemes-supported  (1setOf
                                     uriScheme)

notify-events (1setOf type2    notify-events-default (1setOf type2
     keyword)                       keyword)

                                notify-events-supported (1setOf type2
                                     keyword)

                                notify-max-events-supported
                                     (integer(2:MAX))

notify-attributes (1setOf      notify-attributes-supported (1setOf
     type2 keyword)                 type2 keyword)

notify-user-data
     (octetString(63))

notify-charset (charset)       charset-supported (1setOf charset)

notify-natural-languages       generated-natural-language-supported
     (naturalLanguage)              (1setOf naturalLanguage)

notify-lease-duration          notify-lease-duration-default
     (integer(0:MAX))               (integer(0:67108863))

                                notify-lease-duration-supported (1setOf
                                     (integer(0: 67108863) |
                                     rangeOfInteger(0:67108863)))

notify-persistence (boolean)   notify-persistence-default (boolean)

                                notify-persistence-supported (1setOf



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Attribute in Subscription      Default and Supported Printer
Object                         Attributes

                                     boolean)

5.3.1 notify-recipient-uri (uri)

This attribute.s value is a URL, which is a special case of a URI. Its
value consists of a scheme and an address. The address specifies the
Notification Recipient and the scheme specifies the Delivery Method for
each Event Notification associated with this Subscription Object.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

A client MUST supply this attribute in Subscription Creation Operation.
Thus there is no need for a default attribute.

The .notify-schemes-supported (1setOf uriScheme). attribute MUST specify
the schemes supported for this attribute.

If the client supplies an unsupported scheme in the value of this
attribute, then the Printer MUST not create the Subscription Object and
MUST return the .notify-status-code. attribute with the .client-error-
uri-scheme-not-supported. value in the Subscription Attributes Group in
the response.

5.3.2 notify-events (1setOf type2 keyword)

This attribute contains a set of Subscribed Events.  When an Event
occurs and it .matches. a value of this attribute, the Printer sends an
Event Notification using information in the Subscription Object. The
details of .matching. are described subsection 5.3.2.2.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

A client MAY supply this attribute in a Subscription Creation Operation.
If the client does not supply this attribute in Subscription Creation
Operation, the Printer MUST populate this attribute on the Subscription
Object with its .notify-events-default. attribute value.

Each value of this attribute on a Subscription Object MUST be one of the
values of the  .notify-events-supported (1setOf type2 keyword).
attribute.

The number of values of this attribute MUST NOT exceed the value of the
.notify-max-events-supported. attribute. A Printer MUST support at least
2 values per Subscription Object.  If the number of values supplied by a
client in a Subscription Creation Operation exceeds the value of this
attribute, the Printer MUST treat extra values as unsupported values and
MUST use the value of .successful-ok-too-many-events. for the .notify-
status-code. attribute in the Subscription Attributes Group of the
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ISSUE 01: OK that we changed the number from 5 to 2 because we have
rearranged the categories of Events to have group events?


5.3.2.1 Standard Values for Subscribed Events

Each value of this attribute is a keyword and it specifies a Subscribed
Event that represents certain changes. Some keywords represent a subset
of changes of another keyword, e.g., .job-completed. is an Event value
which is a sub-value of .job-state-change.. See section 5.3.2.2 for the
case where this attribute contains both a value and a sub-value.

The values in this section are divided into three categories: No Events,
Job Events and Printer Events.

A Printer MUST support the Events indicated as .REQUIRED. and MAY
support the Events indicated as .OPTIONAL..

5.3.2.1.1  No Events

The standard and only keyword value for No Events is:

  .none.:  REQUIRED - no Event Notifications for any Events. As the
     sole value of .notify-events-supported., this value means that the
     Printer does not support the sending of Event Notifications. As the
     sole value of .notify-events-default., this value means that a
     client MUST specify the .notify-events. attribute in order for a
     Subscription Creation Operation to succeed. If the Printer receives
     this value as the sole value of a Subscription Creation Operation,
     it does not create a Subscription Object. If a Printer receives
     this value with other values of a Subscription Creation Operation,
     the Printer MUST treat this value as an unsupported value.

5.3.2.1.2 Subscribed Printer Events

For a Printer, the first Printer Event MUST be .printer-restarted. and
the last Printer Event MUST be .printer-shutdown..

The standard keyword values for Subscribed Printer Events are:

  .printer-state-changed.:  REQUIRED - the Printer changed state from
     any state to any other state. Specifically, the value of the
     Printer.s .printer-state., .printer-state-reasons. or .printer-is-
     accepting-jobs. attributes changed.

     This Subscribed Event value has the following sub-values: .printer-
     restarted. and .printer-shutdown.. A client can listen for any of
     these sub-values if it doesn.t want to listen to all printer-state
     changes:

     .printer-restarted.:  OPTIONAL - when the printer is powered up or
       the Restart-Printer operation is performed (see [ipp-set2]).
       This event is the first Printer Event that can be received from
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     .printer-shutdown.:  OPTIONAL - when the device is being powered
       down or the Shutdown-Printer operation has been performed (see
       [ipp-set2]). This event is the last Printer Event that can be
       received from a Printer.

  .printer-config-changed.:  OPTIONAL - when the configuration of a
     Printer has changed, i.e., the value of the .printer-message-from-
     operator. or any .configuration. Printer attribute has changed.  A
     .configuration. Printer attribute is an attribute which can change
     value because of some human interaction either direct or indirect,
     and which is not covered by one of the other Events in this
     section. Examples of .configuration. Printer attributes are any of
     the Job Template attributes, such as .xxx-supported., .xxx-ready.
     and .xxx-default.. Often, such a change is the result of a client
     performing a Set-Printer-Attributes operation (see [ipp-set]) on
     the Printer. The client has to perform a Get-Printer-Attributes to
     find out the new values of these changed attributes.  This Event is
     useful for GUI clients and drivers to update the available printer
     capabilities to the user.

     This Event value has the following sub-values: .printer-media-
     changed. and .printer-finishings-changed.. A client can listen for
     any of these sub-values if it doesn.t want to listen to all
     printer-configuration changes:

     .printer-media-changed.:  OPTIONAL - when the media loaded on a
       printer has been changed, i.e., the .media-ready. attribute has
       changed.  This Event includes two cases: an input tray that goes
       empty and an input tray that receives additional media of the
       same type or of a different type.  The client must check the
       .media-ready. Printer attribute (see [ipp-mod] section 4.2.11)
       separately to find out what changed.

     .printer-finishings-changed.:  OPTIONAL - when the finisher on a
       printer has been changed, i.e., the .finishings-ready. attribute
       has changed. This Event includes two cases: a finisher that goes
       empty and a finisher that is refilled (even if it is not full).
       The client must check the .finishings-ready. Printer attribute
       separately to find out what changed.

  .printer-queue-order-changed.: OPTIONAL - the order of jobs in the
     Printer.s queue has changed, so that an application that is
     monitoring the queue can perform a Get-Jobs operation to determine
     the new order.  This Event does not include when a job enters the
     queue (the .job-created. Event covers that) and does not include
     when a job leaves the queue (the .job-completed. Event covers
     that).

   .printer-no-longer-full.:  OPTIONAL - when the Printer has just
     become able to accept a Job Creation operation, Send-Document
     operation, or Send-URI operation. A Printer sends this Event when
     it has acquired more buffer space to accept jobs after it
     previously did not have room to accept any more jobs and would have
     rejected a Job Creation Operation, a Send-Document operation, or


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     Send-URI operation. A Notification Recipient listens for this Event
     when there is more than one client feeding a printer/server (fan-
     in).

  .printer-full.:  OPTIONAL - when the Printer has just become unable
     to accept a Job Creation operation, Send-Document operation, or
     Send-URI operation due to lack of buffer space. It is intended that
     a Notification Recipient use this Event to stop whatever the
     .printer-no-longer-full. Event starts.

ISSUE 02: OK to add .printer-full. Event?

   .printer-almost-idle.:  OPTIONAL - when the Printer needs another
     Job in order to stay busy. A Printer that is an output device MAY
     use this Event to request a new job sufficiently ahead of time so
     as not to run out of work between jobs. A Printer that is a fan-out
     spooler MAY listen for this Event and hold pending Jobs until a
     downstream Printer sends this Event to indicate that it needs
     another Job in order to stay busy.

   .printer-not-almost-idle.:  OPTIONAL - when the Printer no-longer
     needs another Job in order to stay busy. It is intended that a
     Notification Recipient use this Event to stop whatever the
     .printer-almost-idle. Event starts.

ISSUE 03: OK to add .printer-not-almost-idle. Event?

5.3.2.1.3 Subscribed Job Events

For each Job object, the first Job Event MUST be .job-created. and the
last Job Event MUST be .job-completed..

The standard keyword values for Subscribed Job Events are:

   .job-state-changed.:  REQUIRED - the job has changed from any state
     to any other state. Specifically, the Printer sends this Event
     whenever the value of the .job-state. attribute or .job-state-
     reasons. attribute changes. When a Job is removed from the Job
     History (see [ipp-mod] 4.3.7.1), no Event is generated.

     This Event value has the following sub-values: .job-created., .job-
     completed. and .job-purged.. A client can listen for any of these
     sub-values if it doesn.t want to listen to all .job-state changes..

     .job-created.:  REQUIRED - the Printer has accepted  a Job Creation
       operation and the job.s .time-at-creation. attribute value is
       set (see [ipp-mod] section 4.3.14.1).  The Printer puts the job
       in the .pending., .pending-held. or .processing. states. This
       event is the first Job Event that can be received from a Job.

     .job-completed.:  REQUIRED - the job has reached one of the
       completed states, i.e., the value of the job.s .job-state.
       attribute has changed to: .completed., .aborted., or .canceled..
       The Job.s .time-at-completed. and .date-time-at-completed. (if
       supported) attributes are set (see [ipp-mod] section 4.3.14).


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       This event is the last Job Event that can be received from a
       Job.

     .job-purged.:  OPTIONAL - when a .not-completed. job (i.e., not
       .completed., .canceled., or .aborted.) was purged from the
       printer using the Purge-Jobs operation. The Printer MUST
       immediately send a .job-completed. event after this event to
       meet the requirement that .job-completed. is the last event for
       the Job.

   .job-config-changed.:  OPTIONAL - when the configuration of a job
     has changed, i.e., the value of the .job-message-from-operator. or
     any of the .configuration. Job attributes have changed.  A
     .configuration. Job attribute is an attribute that can change value
     because of some human interaction either direct or indirect.
     Examples of .configuration. Job attributes are any of the job
     template attributes and the .job-name. attribute. Often, such a
     change is the result of the user or the Operator performing a Set-
     Job-Attributes operation (see [ipp-set]) on the Job object.  The
     client performs a Get-Job-Attributes to find out the new values of
     the changed attributes.  This Event is useful for GUI clients and
     drivers to update the job information to the user.

   .job-progress.: OPTIONAL . an impression, sheet, or copy has
     completed.  See the separate [ipp-prog] specification.


5.3.2.2 Rules for Matching of Subscribed Events

When an Event occurs, the Printer MUST find each Subscription object
whose .notify-events. attribute .matches. the Event.  The rules for
.matching. of Subscribed Events are described separately for Printer
Events and for Job Events. This section also describes some special
cases.

5.3.2.2.1  Rules for Matching of Printer Events

Suppose that the Printer causes Printer Event E to occur. For each Per-
Job or Per-Printer Subscription S in the Printer, if E equals a value of
this attribute in S or E is a sub-value of a value of this attribute in
S, the Printer MUST generate an Event Notification.

  Consider the example. There are three Subscription Objects each with
  the Subscribed Printer Event .printer-state-changed.. Subscription
  Object A is a Per-Printer Subscription Object. Subscription Object B
  is a Per-Job Subscription Object for Job 1, and Subscription Object C
  is a Per-Job Subscription Object for Job 2. When the Printer enters
  the .stopped. state, the Printer sends an Event Notification to the
  Notification Recipients of Subscription Objects A, B, and C because
  this is a Printer Event. Note if Job 1 has already completed, the
  Printer would not send an Event Notification for its Subscription
  Object.

5.3.2.2.2  Rules for Matching of Job Events

Suppose that Job J causes Job Event E to occur.


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  3. For each Per-Printer Subscription S in the Printer, if E equals a
     value of this attribute in S or E is a sub-value of a value of this
     attribute in S, the Printer MUST generate an Event Notification.

  4. For each Per-Job Subscription S associated with Job J, if E equals
     a value of this attribute in S or E is a sub-value of a value of
     this attribute in S, the Printer MUST generate an Event
     Notification.

  5. For each Per-Job Subscription S that is NOT associated Job J, if E
     equals a value of this attribute in S or E is a sub-value of a
     value of this attribute in, the Printer MUST NOT generate an Event
     Notification from S.

  Consider the example: There are three Subscription Objects listening
  for the Job Event .job-completed..  Subscription Object A is a Per-
  Printer Subscription Object. Subscription Object B is a Per-Job
  Subscription Object for Job 1, and Subscription Object C is a Per-Job
  Subscription Object for Job 2. In addition, Per-Printer Subscription
  Object D is listening for the Job Event .job-state-changed.. When Job
  1 completes, the Printer sends an Event Notification to the
  Notification Recipient of Subscription Object A (because it is Per-
  Printer) and Subscription Object B because it is a Per-Job
  Subscription Object associated with the Job generating the Event.
  The Printer also sends an Event Notification to the Notification
  Recipient of Subscription Object D because .job-completed. is a sub-
  value of .job-state-changed. . the value that Subscription Object D
  is listening for. The Printer does not send an Event Notification to
  the Notification Recipients of Subscription Object C because it is a
  Per-Job Subscription Object associated with some Job other than the
  Job generating the Event.

5.3.2.2.3  Special Cases for Matching Rules

This section contains rule for special cases.

If an Event matches Subscribed Events in two different Subscription
Objects and the Printer would send two identical Event Notifications
(except for the .notify-subscription-id. attribute) to the same
Notification Recipient using the same Delivery Method, the Printer MUST
send both Event Notifications. That is, the Printer MUST NOT try to
consolidate seemingly identical Event Notifications that occur in
separate Subscription objects. Incidentally, the Printer MUST NOT reject
Subscription Creation Operations that would create this scenario.

If an Event matches two values of this .notify-events. attribute in a
single Subscription object (e.g., a value and its sub-value), a Printer
MAY send one Event Notification for each matched value in the
Subscription Object or it MAY send only one Event Notification per
Subscription Object. The rules in sections 5.3.2.2.1 and 5.3.2.2.2 are
purposefully ambiguous about the number of Event Notification sent when
Event E matches two or more values in a Subscription Object.

  Consider the example: There are two Per-Printer Subscription Objects
  when a Job completes. Subscription Object A has the Subscribed Job


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  Event .job-state-changed..  Subscription Object B has the Subscribed
  Job Events .job-state-changed. and .job-completed.. The Printer sends
  an Event Notification to the Notification Recipient of Subscription
  Object A with the value of  .job-state-changed. for the .notify-
  subscribing-event. attribute. The Printer sends either one or two
  Event Notifications to the Notification Recipient of Subscription
  Object B, depending on implementation. If it sends two Event
  Notifications, one has the value of  .job-state-changed. for the
  .notify-subscribing-event. attribute, and the other has the value of
  .job-completed. for the .notify-subscribing-event. attribute. If it
  sends one Event Notification, it has the value of either .job-state-
  changed. or .job-completed. for the .notify-subscribing-event.
  attribute, depending on implementation. The algorithm for choosing
  such a value is implementation dependent.

In addition, Delivery Methods MAY allow the Printer to moderate certain
high frequency events (see section 9).

5.3.3 notify-attributes (1setOf type2 keyword)

This attribute contains a set of attribute names. When a Printer sends a
Machine Consumable Event Notification, it includes a fixed set of
attributes (see section 9.1). If this attribute is present and the Event
Notification is Machine Consumable, the Printer also includes the
attributes specified by this attribute.

A Printer MAY support this attribute.

A client MAY supply this attribute in a Subscription Creation Operation.
If the client does not supply this attribute in Subscription Creation
Operation or the Printer does not support this attribute, the
Subscription Object MUST NOT contain the .notify-attributes. attribute.
There is no .notify-attributes-default. attribute.

Each keyword value of this attribute on a Subscription Object MUST be a
value of the .notify-attributes-supported (1setOf type2 keyword).
attribute. The .notify-attributes-supported. MAY contain any Printer
attribute, Job attribute or Subscription Object attribute that the
Printer supports in an Event Notification.  It MUST NOT contain any of
the attributes in Section 9.1 that a Printer automatically puts in an
Event Notification; it would be redundant. If a client supplies an
attribute in Section 9.1, the Printer MUST treat it as an unsupported
attribute value of the .notify-attributes. attribute.

The following rules apply to each keyword value N of the .notify-
attributes. attribute: If the value N names:

  a) a Subscription attribute, the Printer MUST use the attribute N in
     the Subscription Object that is being used to generate the Event
     Notification.

  b) a Job attribute and the Printer is generating an Event Notification
     from a Per-Job Subscription Object S, the Printer MUST use the
     attribute N in the Job object associated with S.


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  c) a Job attribute and the Printer is generating an Event Notification
     from a Per-Printer Subscription Object and the Event is:

       @ a Job Event, the Printer MUST use the attribute N in the Job
          object that caused the Event.

       @ a Printer Event, the Printer MUST use the attribute N in the
          active Job.

If a Printer supports this attribute and a Subscription Object contains
this attribute and the Delivery Method generates a Machine Consumable
Event Notification, the Printer MUST include in each Event Notification:

    a)the attributes specified in section 9.1 and

    b)each attribute named by this attribute.

5.3.4 notify-user-data (octetString(63))

This attribute contains opaque data that some Delivery Methods include
in each Machine Consumable Event Notification. The opaque data might
contain, for example:

the identity of the Subscriber

a path or index to some Subscriber information

a key that identifies to the Notification Recipient the ultimate
recipient of the Event Notification

the id for a Notification Recipient that had previously registered with
an Instant Messaging Service

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

A client MAY supply this attribute in a Subscription Creation Operation.
If the client does not supply this attribute in Subscription Creation
Operation, the Subscription Object MUST NOT contain the .notify-user-
data. attribute. There is no .notify-user-data-default. attribute.

There is no .user-data-supported. attribute. Rather, any octetString
whose length does not exceed 63 octets is a supported value.  If the
length exceeds 63 octets, the Printer MUST treat it as an unsupported
value.

5.3.5 notify-charset (charset)

This attribute specifies the charset to be used in the Event
Notification content sent to the Notification Recipient, whether the
Event Notification content is Machine Consumable or Human Consumable.

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A client MAY supply this attribute in a Subscription Creation Operation.
If the client does not supply this attribute in Subscription Creation
Operation or supplies an unsupported value, the Printer MUST populate
this attribute in the Subscription Object with the value of the
.attributes-charset. operation attribute, which is a REQUIRED attribute
in all IPP requests (see [ipp-mod]). If the value of the .attributes-
charset. attribute is unsupported, the Printer MUST populate this
attribute in the Subscription Object with the value of the Printer.s
.charset-configured. attribute. There is no .notify-charset-default.
attribute.

The value of this attribute on a Subscription Object MUST be a value of
the .charset-supported (1setOf charset). attribute.

5.3.6 notify-natural-language (naturalLanguage)

This attribute specifies the natural language to be used in any human
consumable text in the Event Notification content sent to the
Notification Recipient, whether the Event Notification content is
Machine Consumable or Human Consumable.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

A client MAY supply this attribute in a Subscription Creation Operation.
If the client does not supply this attribute in Subscription Creation
Operation or supplies an unsupported value, the Printer MUST populate
this attribute in the Subscription Object with the value of the
.attributes-natural-language. operation attribute, which is a REQUIRED
attribute in all IPP requests (see [ipp-mod]). If the value of the
.attributes-natural-language. attribute is unsupported, the Printer MUST
populate this attribute in the Subscription Object with the value of the
Printer.s .natural-language-configured. attribute. There is no .notify-
natural-language-default. attribute.

The value of this attribute on a Subscription Object MUST be a value of
the .generated-natural-language-supported (1setOf type2
naturalLanguage). attribute.

5.3.7 notify-lease-duration (integer(0:67108863))

This attribute specifies the duration of the lease associated with the
Per-Printer Subscription Object at the time the Subscription Object was
created or the lease was renewed. The duration of the lease is infinite
if the value is 0, i.e., the lease never expires.

This attribute is not present on a Per-Job Subscription Object because
the Subscription Object lasts exactly as long as the associated Job
object. See section 5.4.3 on .notify-lease-expiration-time
(integer(0:MAX)). for more details.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

For a Subscription Object Creation operation of a Per-Job Subscription
Object, the client MUST NOT supply this attribute. If the client does


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supply this attribute, the Printer MUST treat it as an unsupported
attribute.

For a Subscription Creation Operation of a Per-Printer Subscription
Object or a Renew-Subscription operation, a client MAY supply this
attribute. If the client does not supply this attribute, the Printer
MUST populate this attribute with its .notify-lease-duration-default.
(0:67108863) attribute value. If the client supplies this attribute with
an unsupported value, the Printer MUST populate this attribute with a
supported value, and this value SHOULD be as close as possible to the
value requested by the client. Note: this rule implies that a Printer
doesn.t assign the value of 0 (infinite) unless the client requests it.

After the Printer has populated this attribute with a supported value,
the value represents the .granted duration. of the lease and the Printer
sets the value of the Subscription Object.s .notify-lease-expiration-
time. attribute as specified in section 5.4.3.

The value of this attribute on a Subscription Object MUST be a value of
the .notify-lease-duration-supported. (1setOf (integer(0:67108863) |
rangeOfInteger(0:67108863))) attribute.

A Printer MAY require authentication in order to return the value of 0
(the lease never expires) as one of the values of .notify-lease-
duration-supported., and to allow 0 as a value of the .notify-lease-
duration. attribute.

Note:  The maximum value 67,108,863 is 2 raised to the 26 power minus 1
and is about 2 years in seconds.  The value is considerably less than
MAX so that there is virtually no chance of an overflow when it is added
to .printer-up-time. to produce .notify-lease-expiration-time..

5.3.8 notify-persistence (boolean)

This attribute specifies whether the Printer preserves the Subscription
Object across power cycles.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

A client MAY supply this attribute in a Subscription Creation Operation.
If the client does not supply this attribute in Subscription Creation
Operation, the Printer MUST populate this attribute with its .notify-
persistence-default. (boolean) attribute value. If the client supplies
this attribute with an unsupported value, the Printer MUST populate this
attribute with a supported value. The Printer MAY populate this
attribute with a value other than the one the client requests. For
example, if the client specifies .true. and the Printer doesn.t have
space for another Subscription Object, it sets the value of this
attribute to .false.. If the client specifies .false. and the Printer
has a policy of setting this attribute to .true. if there is space, the
Printer sets this attribute to .true..

The value of this attribute on a Subscription Object MUST be a value of
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.notify-persistence-supported. (1setOf boolean) attribute can have one
of the following three values:

true: all Subscription Objects are persistent (if there is space).

false: no Subscription Objects are persistent

true, false: some Subscription Objects are persistent and others are
not. For example, the Printer may have room for only 2 Subscription
Objects.

It is RECOMMENDED that all Subscription Objects be persistent. If Jobs
are persistent, the Per-Job Subscription Objects MUST be persistent too.

ISSUE 04: it would be better for this attribute to be a Subscription
Description attribute that the Printer sets to show whether the Object
is persistent or not. Agree?


5.4 Subscription Description Attributes

Subscription Description Attributes are those attributes that a Printer
adds to a Subscription Object at the time of its creation.

A Printer MUST support all attributes in this Table 2.

A client MUST NOT supply the attributes in Table 2 in a Subscription
Template Attributes Group of a Subscription Creation Operation. If the
client supplies them, the Printer MUST NOT set them and MUST treat them
as unsupported attributes. There are no corresponding default or
supported attributes.

             Table 2 . Subscription Description Attributes

Subscription Object attributes:

notify-subscription-id (integer(1:MAX))

notify-sequence-number (integer(0:MAX))

notify-lease-expiration-time (integer(0:MAX))

notify-printer-up-time (integer(1:MAX))

notify-printer-uri (uri)

notify-job-id (integer(1:MAX))









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Subscription Object attributes:

notify-subscriber-user-name (name(MAX))

5.4.1 notify-subscription-id  (integer (1:MAX))

This attribute identifies a Subscription Object instance with a number
that is unique within the context of the Printer. The Printer generates
this value at the time it creates the Subscription Object.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

The Printer SHOULD NOT assign the value of this attribute sequentially
as it creates Subscription Objects. Sequential assignment makes it easy
for rogue clients to guess the value of this attribute on other
Subscription Objects.

The Printer SHOULD avoid re-using recent values of this attribute during
continuous operation of the Printer as well as across power cycles. Then
a Subscribing Client is unlikely to find that a stale reference accesses
a new Subscription Object.

The 0 value is not permitted in order to allow for compatibility with
.job-id. and with SNMP index values, which also cannot be 0.

5.4.2 notify-sequence-number (integer (0:MAX))

The value of this attribute indicates the number of times that the
Printer has generated and attempted to send an Event Notification. When
an Event Notification contains this attribute, the Notification
Recipient can determine whether it missed some Event Notifications
(i.e., numbers skipped) or received duplicates (i.e., same number
twice).

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

When the Printer creates a Subscription Object, it MUST set the value of
this attribute to 0. This value indicates that the Printer has not sent
any Event Notifications for this Subscription Object.

Each time the Printer sends a newly generated Event Notification, it
MUST increase the value of this attribute by 1. For some Delivery
Methods, the Printer MUST include this attribute in each Event
Notification, and the value MUST be the value after it is increased by
1. That is, the value of this attribute in the first Event Notification
after Subscription object creation MUST be 1, the second MUST be 2, etc.
If a Delivery Method is defined such that the Notification Recipient
returns a response, the Printer can re-try sending an Event Notification
a certain number of times with the same sequence number when the
Notification Recipient fails to return a response.

If a Subscription Object lasts long enough to reach the value of MAX,
its next value MUST be 0, i.e., it wraps.


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5.4.3 notify-lease-expiration-time (integer(0:MAX))

This attribute specifies the time in the future when the lease on the
Per-Printer Subscription Object will expire, i.e. the .printer-up-time.
value at which the lease will expire. If the value is 0, the lease never
expires.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

When the Printer creates a Per-Job Subscription Object, this attribute
MUST NOT be present . the Subscription Object lasts exactly as long as
the associated Job object.

When the Printer creates a Per-Printer Subscription Object, it populates
this attribute with a value that is the sum of the values of the
Printer.s .printer-up-time. attribute and the Subscription Object.s
.notify-lease-duration. attribute with the following exception. If the
value of the Subscription Object.s .notify-lease-duration. attribute is
0 (i.e., no expiration time), then the value of this attribute MUST be
set to 0 (i.e., no expiration time).

When the Printer powers up, it MUST set the value of this attribute in
each persistent Subscription Object using the algorithm in the previous
paragraph.

When the .printer-up-time. equals the value of this attribute, the
Printer MUST delete the Subscription Object. A client can extend a lease
of a Per-Printer Subscription Object with the Renew-Subscription
operation (see section 11.2.5).

Note: In order to compute the number of seconds remaining in a lease for
a Per-Printer Subscription Object, a client can subtract the
Subscription.s .notify-printer-up-time. attribute (see section 5.4.4)
from the Subscription.s .notify-lease-expiration-time. attribute.

5.4.4 notify-printer-up-time (integer(1:MAX))

This attribute is an alias for the Printer.s .printer-up-time. attribute
. (see [ipp-mod] section 4.4.29).

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

When the Printer creates a Per-Job Subscription Object, this attribute
MUST NOT be present. When the Printer creates a Per-Printer Subscription
Object, this attribute MUST be present.

Note: this attribute exists in a Per-Printer Subscription Object so that
a client using the Get-Subscription-Attributes or Get-Subscription
operations can convert the Per-Printer Subscription.s .notify-lease-
expiration-time. attribute to wall clock time with one request. If the
value of the .notify-lease-expiration-time. attribute is not 0 (i.e., no
expiration time), then the difference between the .notify-lease-
expiration-time. attribute and the .notify-printer-up-time. is the
remaining number of seconds on the lease from the current time.


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5.4.5 notify-printer-uri (uri)

This attribute identifies the Printer object that created this
Subscription Object.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

During a Subscription Creation Operation, the Printer MUST populate this
attribute with the value of the .printer-uri. operation attribute in the
request.  From the Printer URI, the client can, for example, determine
what security scheme was used.

5.4.6 notify-job-id (integer(1:MAX))

This attribute specifies whether the containing Subscription Object is a
Per-Job or Per-Printer Subscription Object, and for Per-Job Subscription
Objects, it specifies the associated Job.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

If this attribute is not present, the Subscription Object MUST be a Per-
Printer Subscription. If this attribute is present, the Subscription
Object MUST be a Per-Job Subscription Object and this attribute MUST
identify the Job with which the Subscription Object is associated.

Note: This attribute could be useful to a Notification Recipient that
receives an Event Notification generated from a Per-Job Subscription
Object and caused by a Printer Event. The Event Notification gives
access to the Printer and the Subscription Object. The Event
Notification gives access to the associated Job only via this attribute.
ISSUE 05: OK that we added the REQUIRED .notify-job-id. attribute
because it is needed for a Notification Recipient to determine from a
random subscription-id whether a Subscription is Per-Printer or Per-Job
and if the latter which Job.

5.4.7 notify-subscriber-user-name (name(MAX))

This attribute contains the name of the user who performed the
Subscription Creation Operation.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

The Printer sets this attribute to the most authenticated printable name
that it can obtain from the authentication service over which the
Subscription Creation Operation was received. The Printer uses the same
mechanism for determining the value of this attribute as it does for a
Job.s .job-originating-user-name. (see [ipp-mod] section 4.3.6).

Note:  To help with authentication, a Subscription Object may have
additional private attributes about the user, e.g., a credential of a
principal. Such private attributes are implementation-dependent and not
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6  Printer Description Attributes Related to Notification


This section defines the Printer Description attributes that are related
to Notification. Table 3 lists the Printer Description attributes,
indicates the Printer support required for conformance, and whether or
not the attribute is READ-ONLY (see section 3.1):

 Table 3 . Printer Description Attributes Associated with Notification

Printer object attributes:                   REQUIRED     READ-ONLY

notify-max-printer-subscriptions-supported   Yes          No
(integer(0:MAX))

notify-max-job-subscriptions-supported       Yes          No
(integer(0:MAX))

printer-state-change-time (integer(1:MAX))   No           Yes

printer-state-change-date-time (dateTime)    No           Yes


6.1 notify-max-printer-subscriptions-supported (integer(0:MAX))

This attribute specifies the maximum number of un-expired Per-Printer
Subscription Objects that the Printer supports at one time.  A value of
MAX indicates no effective maximum.

A Printer MUST support this attribute.

A Printer MUST support at least 1 Per-Printer Subscription Object.  An
implementation MAY allow an Administrator to set the value of this
attribute to 0 in order to disable creation of Per-Printer Subscription
Objects.

If the number of Per-Printer Subscription Objects equals the value of
this attribute during a Subscription Creation Operation, the Printer
MUST NOT create any additional Per-Printer Subscription Objects. See
section 11.1.2 for details on the creation of Subscription Objects and
how the Printer indicates such failure in a Subscription Creation
Operation.

ISSUE 06: OK to use MAX to mean no limit and 0 to mean that an admin has
turned off subscriptions?


6.2 notify-max-job-subscriptions-supported (integer(0:MAX))

This attribute specifies the maximum number of Per-Job Subscription
Objects that the Printer supports for each job. For example, if a
Printer can hold 2 Jobs and this attribute has the value of 3, it can
hold a total of 6 Per-Job Subscription Objects.  A value of MAX
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A Printer MUST support this attribute.

A Printer MUST support at least 1 Per-Job Subscription Object per Job.
An implementation MAY allow an Administrator to set the value of this
attribute to 0 in order to disable creation of Per-Job Subscription
Objects.

If the number of Per-Job Subscription Objects associated with the
specified Job equals the value of this attribute during a Subscription
Creation Operation, the Printer MUST NOT create any additional Per-Job
Subscription Objects. See section 11.1 for details on the creation of
Subscription Objects and how the Printer indicates such failure in a
Subscription Creation Operation.

ISSUE 07: OK to use MAX to mean no limit and 0 to mean that an admin has
turned off subscriptions?


6.3 printer-state-change-time (integer(1:MAX))

This attribute records the most recent time at which the .printer-state-
changed. Printer Event occurred whether or not any Subscription objects
were listening for this event.  This attribute helps a client or
operator to determine how long the Printer has been in its current
state.

A Printer MAY support this attribute and if so, the attribute MUST be
READ-ONLY.

On power-up, the Printer MUST set the value of this attribute to be the
value of its .printer-up-time. attribute, so that it always has a value.
Whenever the .printer-state-changed. Printer Event occurs, the Printer
MUST set this attribute to the value of the Printer.s .printer-up-time.
attribute.


6.4 printer-state-change-date-time (dateTime)

This attribute records the most recent time at which the .printer-state-
changed. Printer Event occurred whether or not there were any
Subscription Objects listening for this event.  This attribute helps a
client or operator to determine how long the Printer has been in its
current state.

A Printer MAY support this attribute and if so, the attribute MUST be
READ-ONLY.

On power-up, the Printer MUST set the value of this attribute to be the
value of its .printer-current-time. attribute, so that it always has a
value (see [ipp-mod] section 4.4.30 on .printer-current-time.). Whenever
the .printer-state-changed. Printer Event occurs, the Printer MUST set
this attribute to the value of the Printer.s .printer-current-time.
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7  New Values for Existing Printer Description Attributes


7.1 operations-supported (1setOf type2 enum)

The following .operation-id. values are added in order to support the
new operations defined in this document:

                   Table 4 . Operation-id assignments

     Value       Operation Name

     0x0016      Create-Printer-Subscriptions

     0x0017      Create-Job-Subscriptions

     0x0018      Get-Subscription-Attributes

     0x0019      Get-Subscriptions

     0x001A      Renew-Subscription

     0x001B      Cancel-Subscription


8  Attributes Only in Event Notifications


This section contains those attributes that exist only in Event
Notifications.


8.1 notify-subscribed-event (type2 keyword)

This attribute indicates the Subscribed Event that caused the Printer to
send this Event Notification. This attribute exists only in Event
Notifications.

The Printer MUST send this attribute. This attribute exists only in
Event Notifications.

This attribute MUST contain one of the values of the .notify-events.
attribute in the Subscription Object, i.e., one of the Subscribed Event
values. Its value is the Subscribed Event that .matches. the Event that
caused the Printer to send this Event Notification. This Subscribed
Event value may be identical to the Event or the Event may be a sub-
value of the Subscribed Event. For example, the .job-completed. Event
(which is a sub-event of the .job-state-changed. event) would cause the
Printer to send an Event Notification for either the .job-completed. or
.job-state-changed. Subscribed Events and to send the .job-completed. or
.job-state-changed. value for this attribute, respectively,.  See
section 5.3.2.2 for the .matching. rules of Subscribed Events and for
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The Delivery Method Document specifies whether the Printer includes the
value of this attribute in an Event Notification.


8.2 notify-text (text(MAX))

This attribute contains a Human Consumable text message (see section
9.2). This message describes the Event and is encoded as plain text,
i.e., .text/plain. with the charset specified by Subscription Object.s
.notify-charset. attribute.

The Delivery Method Document specifies whether the Printer includes this
attribute in an Event Notification.

The Printer MAY support this attribute. If a Printer supports a Delivery
Method that requires this attribute, then the Printer MUST support this
attribute


9  Event Notification Content


This section defines the Event Notification content that the Printer
sends when an Event occurs.

When an Event occurs, the Printer MUST find each Subscription object
whose .notify-events. attribute .matches. the Event. See section 5.3.2.2
for details on .matching.. For each matched Subscription Object, the
Printer MUST create an Event Notification with the content and format
that the Delivery Method Document specifies. The content contains the
value of attributes specified by the Delivery Method Document. The
Printer obtains the values immediately after the Event occurs. For
example, if the .printer-state. attribute changes from .idle. to
.processing., the Event .printer-state-changed. occurs and the Printer
puts various attributes into the Event Notification, including .printer-
up-time. and .printer-state. with the values that they have immediately
after the Event occurs, i.e., the value of  .printer-state. is
.processing..

If two different Events occur simultaneously, or nearly so (e.g.,
.printer-up-time. has the same value for both), the Printer MUST create
a separate Event Notification for each Event, even if the associated
Subscription Object is the same for both Events. For example, suppose
that two nearly-simultaneously Events represent two successive .printer-
state-changed. Events, one from .idle. to .processing. and another from
.processing. to .stopped.. These two Events have the same name but are
different instances of the Event. Then the Printer MUST create a
separate Event Notification for each Event and SHOULD accurately report
the .printer-state. of the first Event as .processing. and the second
Event as .stopped..

If the same Event occurs several times in quick succession (e.g., .job-
progress.), the Printer MUST create a separate Event Notification for
each Event unless the Delivery Method Document specifies that the Event
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10 seconds) or by the number of Events (every 10th occurrence of the
Event).

If a Subscription Object contains more than one Subscribed Event, and
several matching Events occur in quick succession, the Printer MUST
generate a separate Event Notification for each Event.  Depending on the
Delivery Method, the Printer MAY combine several Event Notifications
into a single compound Event Notification.

After the Printer has created the Event Notification, the Printer
delivers it via either a:

     Push Delivery Method: The Printer sends the Event Notification
     shortly after an Event occurs. For some Push Delivery Methods, the
     Notification Recipient MUST send a response; for others it MUST NOT
     send a response.

     Pull Delivery Method: The Printer saves Event Notifications for
     some event-lease time and expects the Notification Recipient to
     request Event Notifications. The Printer returns the Event
     Notifications in a response to such a request.

The next two sections describe the values that a Printer sends in the
content of Machine Consumable and Human Consumable Event Notifications,
respectively.


9.1 Content of Machine Consumable Event Notifications

This section defines the attributes that a Delivery Method MUST mention
in a Delivery Method Document when specifying the Machine Consumable
Event Notification.s contents.

This document does not define the order of attributes in Event
Notifications.  However, Delivery Method Documents MAY define the order
of some or all of the attributes.

A Delivery Method Document MUST specify additional attributes (if any)
that a Printer implementation sends in a Machine Consumable Event
Notification.

Notification Recipients MUST be able to accept Event Notifications
containing attributes they do not recognize.  What a Notification
Recipient does with an unrecognized attribute is implementation-
dependent.  Notification Recipients MAY attempt to display unrecognized
attributes anyway or MAY ignore them.

The next three sections define the attributes in Event Notification
Contents that are:

     a)for all Events

     b)for Job Events only

     c)for Printer Events only


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9.1.1 Attributes in Event Notification Content Common to All Events

This section lists the attributes that a Delivery Method MUST specify
for all Events.

The tables in this section and following sections contain the following
columns:

     a)Source Value: the name of the attribute that supplies the value
       for the Event Notification. Asterisks in this field refer to a
       note below the table.

     b)Sends: if the Printer supports the value (column 1) on the
       Source Object (column 3) the Delivery Method MUST specify:

          MUST: that the Printer MUST send the value.

          SHOULD: either that the Printer MUST send the value or that
          the value is incompatible with the Delivery Method.

          MAY: that the Printer MUST, SHOULD, MAY, MUST NOT, SHOULD NOT,
          or NEED NOT send the value.

     c)Source Object: the object from which the source value comes. If
       the object is .Event Notification., the Printer fabricates the
       value when it sends the Event Notification. See section 8.

Table 5 lists potential values in each Event Notification.

           Table 5 . Attributes in Event Notification Content

               Source Value                   Sends   Source Object

notify-subscription-id (integer(1:MAX))        MUST    Subscription

notify-printer-uri (uri)                       MUST    Subscription

notify-subscribed-event (type2 keyword)        MUST    Event
                                                       Notification

printer-up-time (integer(MIN:MAX))             MUST    Printer

printer-current-time (dateTime)                MUST    Printer

notify-sequence-number (integer (0:MAX))      SHOULD   Subscription

notify-charset (charset)                      SHOULD   Subscription

notify-natural-language (naturalLanguage)     SHOULD   Subscription

notify-user-data (octetString(63)) *          SHOULD   Subscription

notify-text (text)                            SHOULD   Event



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               Source Value                   Sends   Source Object

                                                       Notification

attributes from the .notify-attributes.        MAY    Printer
attribute **

attributes from the .notify-attributes.        MAY    Job
attribute **

attributes from the .notify-attributes.        MAY    Subscription
attribute **

* If the Subscription Object does not contain a .notify-user-data.
attribute and the Delivery Method document REQUIRES the Printer to send
the .notify-user-data. source value in the Event Notification, the
Printer MUST send an octet-string of length 0.

** The last three rows represent additional attributes that a client MAY
request via the  .notify-attributes. attribute. A Printer MAY support
the .notify-attributes. attribute. The Delivery Method MUST say that the
Printer MUST, SHOULD, MAY, MUST NOT, SHOULD NOT, or NEED NOT support the
.notify-attributes. attribute and specific values of this attribute. The
Delivery Method MAY say that support for the .notify-attributes. is
conditioned on support of the attribute by the Printer or it MAY say
that Printer MUST support the .notify-attribute. attribute if the
Printer supports the Delivery Method.

9.1.2 Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for Job Events

This section lists the additional attributes that a Delivery Method MUST
specify for Job Events.  See Table 6.

 Table 6 . Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for Job
                                 Events

               Source Value                   Sends   Source Object

job-id (integer(1:MAX))                       MUST    Job

job-state (type1 enum)                        MUST    Job

job-state-reasons (1setOf type2 keyword)      MUST    Job

job-impressions-completed (integer(0:MAX))    MUST    Job
*

*  The Printer MUST send the .job-impressions-completed. attribute in an
Event Notification only for the combinations of Events and Subscribed
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    Table 7 . Combinations of Events and Subscribed Events for .job-
                         impressions-completed.

Job Event                Subscribed Job Event

.job-progress.           .job-progress.

.job-completed.          .job-completed.

.job-completed.          .job-state-changed.



9.1.3 Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for Printer
      Events

This section lists the additional attributes that a Delivery Method MUST
specify for Printer Events. See Table 8.

   Table 8 . Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for
                             Printer Events

               Source Value                   Sends   Source Object

printer-state (type1 enum)                     MUST    Printer

printer-state-reasons (1setOf type2            MUST    Printer
keyword)

printer-is-accepting-jobs (boolean)            MUST    Printer


9.2 Content of Human Consumable Event Notification

This section defines the information that a Delivery Method MUST mention
in a Delivery Method Document when specifying the Human Consumable Event
Notifications contents or the value of the .notify-text. attribute.

Such a Delivery Method MUST specify the following information and a
Printer SHOULD send it:

     a)the Printer name (see Table 9)
     b)the time of the Event (see Table 11)
     c)for Printer Events only:
       i)   the Event (see Table 10) and/or Printer state information
       (see Table 14)
     d)for Job Events only:
       i) the job identity (see Table 12)
       ii)  the Event (see Table 10) and/or Job state information (see
            Table 13)

The subsections of this section specify the attributes that a Printer
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A Delivery Method Document MUST specify additional information (if any)
that a Printer implementation sends in a Human Consumable Event
Notification or in the .notify-text. attribute.

A client MUST NOT request additional attributes via the .notify-
attributes. attribute because this attribute works only for Machine
Consumable Event Notifications.

Notification Recipients MUST NOT expect to be able to parse the Human
Consumable Event Notification contents or the value of the .notify-text.
attribute.

The next three sections define the attributes in Event Notification
Contents that are:

     a)for all Events

     b)for Job Events only

     c)for Printer Events only

9.2.1 Information in Event Notification Content Common to All Events

This section lists the source of the information that a Delivery Method
MUST specify for all Events.

There is a separate table for each piece of information. Each row in the
table represents a source value for the information and the values are
listed in order of preference, with the first one being the preferred
one. An implementation SHOULD use the source value from the earliest row
in each table.  The tables in this section and following contain the
following columns for each piece of information:

     a)Source of Value: the name of the attribute that supplies the
       value for the Event Notification

     b)Source Object: the object from which the source value comes.

The tables in this section do not contain a .Sends. column because all
rows would have a  .SHOULD. as defined in section 9.1.1.

Table 9 lists the source of the information for the Printer Name. The
.printer-name. is more user-friendly unless the Notification Recipient
is in a place where the Printer name is not meaningful.

          Table 9 . Printer Name in Event Notification Content

Source Value                                        Source Object

printer-name (name(127))                            Printer

notify-printer-uri (uri)                            Subscription




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Table 10 lists the source of the information for the Event name. A
Printer MAY combine this information with state information described
for Jobs in Table 13 or for Printers in Table 14.

          Table 10 . Event Name in Event Notification Content

Source Value                                       Source Object

notify-subscribed-event (type2 keyword)            Subscription



Table 11 lists the source of the information for the time that the Event
occurred. A Printer can send this value only if it supports the
Printer.s .printer-current-time. attribute. If a Printer does not
support the
.printer-current-time. attribute, it MUST NOT send the .printer-up-time.
value instead, since it is not an allowed option for human consumable
information.

          Table 11 . Event Time in Event Notification Content

Source Value                                       Source Object

printer-current-time (dateTime)                    Printer



9.2.2 Additional Information in Event Notification Content for Job
      Events

This section lists the source of the additional information that a
Delivery Method MUST specify for Job Events.

Table 12 lists the source of the information for the job name. The .job-
name. is likely more meaningful to a user than .job-id..

    Table 12 . Job Name in Event Notification Content for Job Events

Source Value                                        Source Object

job-name (name(MAX))                                Job

job-id (integer(1:MAX))                             Job



Table 13 lists the source of the information for the job state. If a
Printer supports the .job-state-message. and .job-detailed-state-
message. attributes, it SHOULD use those attributes for the job state
information, otherwise, it should fabricate such information from the
.job-state. and .job-state-reasons.. For some Events, a Printer MAY
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   Table 13 . Job State in Event Notification Content for Job Events

                    Source Value                       Source Object

job-state-message (text(MAX))                        Job

job-detailed-status-messages (1setOf text(MAX))      Job

job-state (type1 enum)                               Job

job-state-reasons (1setOf type2 keyword)             Job

9.2.3 Additional Information in Event Notification Content for Printer
      Events

This section lists the source of the additional information that a
Delivery Method MUST specify for Printer Events.

Table 14 lists the source of the information for the printer  state. If
a Printer supports the .printer-state-message., it SHOULD use that
attribute for the job state information, otherwise it SHOULD fabricate
such information from the .printer-state. and .printer-state-reasons..
For some Events, a Printer MAY combine this information with Event
information.

   Table 14 . Printer State in Event Notification Content for Printer
                                 Events

Source Value                                          Source Object

printer-state-message (text(MAX))                     Printer

printer-state (type1 enum)                            Printer

printer-state-reasons (1setOf type2 keyword)          Printer

printer-is-accepting-jobs (boolean)                   Printer


10 Delivery Methods


A Delivery Method is the mechanism, i.e., protocol, by which the Printer
delivers an Event Notification to a Notification Recipient.  There are
several potential Delivery Methods for Event Notifications,
standardized, as well as proprietary.  This document does not define any
of these delivery mechanisms.  Each Delivery Method MUST be defined in a
Delivery Method Document that is separate from this document. New
Delivery Methods will be created as needed using an extension to the
registration procedures defined in [ipp-mod].  Such documents are
registered with IANA (see section 13).

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  - The Notification Recipient polls for Event Notifications at
  intervals directed by the Printer

  - The Printer sends Event Notifications to the Notification Recipient
  using http as the transport.

  - The Printer sends an email message.

This section specifies how to define a Delivery Method Document and what
to put in such a document.

A Delivery Method Document:

1.MUST define a URL scheme name for the Delivery Method.

2.MUST indicate whether the delivery method is REQUIRED or OPTIONAL for
  an IPP Printer to support if it supports Event Notification.

3.MUST define the transport and delivery protocol for the Event
  Notification content that a Printer MUST use, i.e., the entire
  network stack.

4.MUST indicate whether or not several Event Notifications can be
  combined into a compound Event Notification.

5.MUST describe how the Delivery Method is initiated, i.e., is it
  initiated by the receiving user (pull), or is it initiated by the
  Printer (push).

6.MUST indicate whether the Delivery Method is Machine Consumable or
  Human Consumable.

7.MUST define the representation and encoding that a Printer MUST use
  for each value or piece of information listed in section 9 (9.1 for
  Machine Consumable Event Notification and/or section 9.2 for Human
  Consumable Event Notification).

8.MUST specify for each attribute in section 9 whether a Printer MUST,
  SHOULD, MAY, MUST NOT, SHOULD NOT or NEED NOT send the attribute in
  an Event Notification content.

9.MUST define what frequently occurring Events MUST be moderated, if
  any, and whether the moderation mechanism is configurable. Also
  whether Events are moderated by sending one per time unit or one per
  number of Events.

10.  MUST discuss the latency and reliability of the transport and
  delivery protocol.

11.  MUST discuss the security aspects of the transport and delivery
  protocol, e.g., how it is handled in firewalls.

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13.  MAY define additional values or pieces of information that a
  Printer MUST, SHOULD or MAY send in a Notification content.

14.  MAY define additional Subscription Template and/or Subscription
  Description attributes and the conformance requirements thereof.

15.  MAY define additional Printer Description attributes and the
  conformance requirements thereof.


11 Operations for Notification


This section defines all of the operations for Notification. Section 7.1
assigns of the .operation-id. for each operation.  The following two
sub-sections define Subscription Creation Operations, and other
operations.


11.1 Subscription Creation Operations

This section defines the Subscription Creation Operations. The first
section on Create-Job-Subscriptions gives most of the information. The
other Subscription Creation Operations refer to the section on Create-
Job-Subscriptions, even though the Create-Job-Subscriptions operation is
the only OPTIONAL operation in this document (see section 12).

A Printer MUST support Create-Printer-Subscriptions and the Subscription
Template Attributes Group in Job Creation operations. It MAY support
Create-Job-Subscriptions operations.

11.1.1 Create-Job-Subscriptions Operation

The operation creates one or more Per-Job Subscription Objects.  The
client supplies one or more Subscription Template Attributes Groups each
containing one or more of Subscription Template Attributes (defined in
section 5.3).

Except for errors, the Printer MUST create exactly one Per-Job
Subscription Object from each Subscription Template Attributes Group in
the request, even if the newly created Subscription Object would have
identical behavior to some existing Subscription Object. The Printer
MUST associate each newly created Per-Job Subscription Object with the
target Job, which is specified by the .notify-job-id. operation
attribute.

The Printer MUST accept the request in any of the target job.s .not-
completed. states, i.e., .pending., .pending-held., .processing., or
.processing-stopped.. The Printer MUST NOT change the job.s .job-state.
attribute because of this operation.  If the target job is in any of the
.completed. states, i.e., .completed., .canceled., or .aborted, then the
Printer MUST reject the request and return the .client-error-not-
possible. status code; the response MUST NOT contain any Subscription
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Access Rights:  To create Per-Job Subscription Objects, the
authenticated user (see [IPP-MOD] section 8.3) performing this operation
MUST either be the job owner or have Operator or Administrator access
rights for this Printer (see [IPP-MOD] sections 1 and 8.5).  Otherwise
the Printer MUST reject the operation and return: the .client-error-
forbidden., .client-error-not-authenticated., or .client-error-not-
authorized. status code as appropriate.


11.1.1.1  Create-Job-Subscriptions Request

The following groups of attributes are part of the Create-Job-
Subscriptions Request:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.1.

  Target:
     The .printer-uri. attribute which defines the target for this
     operation as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.5.

  Requesting User Name:
     The .requesting-user-name. attribute SHOULD be supplied by the
     client as described in [ipp-mod] section 8.3.

  notify-job-id (integer(1:MAX)):
     The client MUST supply this attribute and it MUST specify the Job
     object to associate the Per-Job Subscription with. The value of
     .notify-job-id. MUST be the value of the .job-id. of the associated
     Job object. If the client does not supply this attribute, the
     Printer MUST reject this request with a .client-error-bad-request.
     status code.

Group 2-N: Subscription Template Attributes

     For each occurrence of this group:

       The client MUST supply one or more Subscription Template
       Attributes in any order. See section 5.3 for a description of
       each such attribute. See section 5.2 for details on processing
       these attributes.


11.1.1.2  Create-Job-Subscriptions Response

The Printer MUST return to the client the following sets of attributes
as part of a Create-Job-Subscriptions response:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Status Message:
     As defined in [ipp-mod].




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     The Printer can return any status codes defined in [ipp-mod] and
     section 16. The following is a description of the important status
     codes:

       successful-ok: the Printer created all Subscription Objects
          requested.
       successful-ok-ignored-subscriptions: the Printer created some
          Subscription Objects requested but some failed. The
          Subscription Attributes Groups with a .notify-status-code.
          attribute are the ones that failed.
       client-error-ignored-all-subscriptions: the Printer created no
          Subscription Objects requested and all failed. The
          Subscription Attributes Groups with a .notify-status-code.
          attribute are the ones that failed
       client-error-not-possible: For this operation and other Per-Job
          Subscription operations, this error can occur because the
          specified Job has already completed.

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.2.


Group 2: Unsupported Attributes

     See [ipp-mod] section 3.1.7 for details on returning Unsupported
     Attributes. This group does not contain any unsupported
     Subscription Template Attributes; they are returned in the
     Subscription Attributes Group (see below).


Group 3-N: Subscription Attributes

     These groups MUST be returned if and only if the .status-code.
     parameter  returned in Group 1 has the values: .successful-ok.,
     .successful-ok-ignored-subscriptions., or .client-error-ignored-
     all-subscriptions..

     See section 5.2 for details on the contents of each occurrence of
     this group.

11.1.2  Create-Printer-Subscriptions operation

The operation is identical to Create-Job-Subscriptions with exceptions
noted in this section.

The operation creates Per-Printer Subscription Objects instead of Per-
Job Subscription Objects, and associates each newly created Per-Printer
Subscription Object with the Printer specified by the operation target
rather than with a specific Job.

The Printer MUST accept the request in any of its states, i.e., .idle.,
.processing., or .stopped.. The Printer MUST NOT change its .printer-
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Access Rights:  To create Per-Printer Subscription Objects, the
authenticated user (see [IPP-MOD] section 8.3) performing this operation
MUST have Operator or Administrator access rights for this Printer (see
[IPP-MOD] sections 1 and 8.5).  Otherwise, the Printer MUST reject the
operation and return: the .client-error-forbidden., .client-error-not-
authenticated., or .client-error-not-authorized. status code as
appropriate.


11.1.2.1  Create-Printer-Subscriptions Request

The groups are identical to the Create-Job-Subscriptions (see section
11.1.1.1) except that the Operation Attributes group MUST NOT contain
the  .notify-job-id. attribute.  If the client does supply the .notify-
job-id. attribute, then the Printer MUST treat it as any other
unsupported Operation attribute and MUST return it in the Unsupported
Attributes group.


11.1.2.2  Create-Printer-Subscriptions Response

The groups are identical to the Create-Job-Subscriptions (see section
11.1.1.2).


11.1.3 Job Creation Operation . Extensions for Notification

This document extends the Job Creation operations to create Subscription
Objects as a part of the operation.

The operation is identical to Create-Job-Subscriptions with exceptions
noted in this section.

Unlike the Create-Job-Subscriptions operation, this operation associates
the newly created Subscription Objects with the Job object created by
this operation. The operation succeeds if and only if the Job creation
succeeds. If the Printer does not create some or all of the requested
Subscription Objects, the Printer MUST return a  .successful-ok-ignored-
subscriptions. status-code instead of a .successful-ok. status-code, but
the Printer MUST NOT reject the operation because of a failure to create
Subscription Objects.

If the operation includes a Job Template group, the client MUST supply
it after the Operation Attributes group and before the first
Subscription Template Attributes Group.

If a Printer does not support this Notification specification, then it
MUST treat the Subscription Attributes Group like an unknown group and
ignore it (see [ipp-mod] section 5.2.2).  Because the Printer ignores
the Subscription Attributes Group, it doesn.t return them in the
response either, thus indicating to the client that the Printer doesn.t
support Notification.

Access Rights:  To create Per-Job Subscription Objects, the
authenticated user (see [IPP-MOD] section 8.3) performing this operation


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MUST either have permission to create Jobs on the Printer.  Otherwise
the Printer MUST reject the operation and return: the .client-error-
forbidden., .client-error-not-authenticated., or .client-error-not-
authorized. status code as appropriate.


11.1.3.1  Job Creation Request

The groups for this operation are sufficiently different from the
Create-Job-Subscriptions operation that they are all presented here. The
following groups of attributes are supplied as part of a Job Creation
Request:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

     Same as defined in [ipp-mod] for Print-Job, Print-URI, and Create-
     Job requests.

Group 2: Job Template Attributes

     The client OPTIONALLY supplies a set of Job Template attributes as
     defined in [ipp-mod] section 4.2.

Group 3 to N: Subscription Template Attributes

     The same as Group 2-N in Create-Job-Subscriptions. See section
     11.1.1.1.

Group N+1: Document Content  (Print-Job only)

     The client MUST supply the document data to be processed.

11.1.3.2  Job Creation Response

The Printer MUST return to the client the following sets of attributes
as part of a Print-Job, Print-URI, and Create-Job Response:

Group 1: Operation Attributes


  Status Message:

     As defined in [ipp-mod] for Print-Job, Print-URI, and Create-Job
     requests.

     The Printer can return any status codes defined in [ipp-mod] and
     section 16. The following is a description of the important status
     codes:

       successful-ok: the Printer created the Job and all Subscription
          Objects requested.
       successful-ok-ignored-subscriptions: the Printer created the Job
          and not all of the Subscription Objects requested. This
          status-code hides .successful-ok-xxx. status-codes that could
          reveal problems in Job creation. The Printer MUST not return
          the .client-error-ignored-all-subscriptions. status code for
          Job Creation operations because the Printer returns an error
          status-code only when it fails to create a Job.


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  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.2.


Group 2: Unsupported Attributes

     See [ipp-mod] section 3.1.7 for details on returning Unsupported
     Attributes. This group does not contain any unsupported
     Subscription Template Attributes; they are returned in the
     Subscription Attributes Group (see below).


Group 3: Job Object Attributes

     As defined in [ipp-mod] for Print-Job, Print-URI, and Create-Job
     requests.


Group 4 to N: Subscription Attributes

     These groups MUST be returned if and only if the client supplied
     Subscription Template Attributes and the operation was accepted.

     See section 5.2 for details on the contents of each occurrence of
     this group.


11.2 Other Operations

This section defines other operations on Subscription objects.

11.2.1Validate-Job Operation - Extensions for Notification

A client can test whether one or more Subscription Objects could be
created using the Validate-Job operation.  The client supplies one or
more Subscription Template Attributes Groups (defined in section 5.3),
just as in a Job Creation request.

A Printer MUST support this extension to this operation.

The Printer MUST accept requests that are identical to the Job Creation
request defined in section 11.1.3.1, except that the request MUST not
contain document data.

The Printer MUST return the same groups and attributes as the Print-Job
operation (section 11.1.3.1) with the following exceptions.  The Printer
MUST NOT return a Job Object Attributes Group because no Job is created.
The Printer MUST NOT return the .notify-subscription-id. attribute in
any Subscription Attribute Group because no Subscription Object is
created.

If the Printer would succeed in creating a Subscription Object, the
corresponding Subscription Attributes Group either has no .status-code.
attribute or a .status-code. attribute with a value of  .successful-ok-
too-many-events. or .successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes.


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(see sections 5.2 and 17). The status-codes have the same meaning as in
Job Creation except the results state what .would happen..

The Printer MUST validate Subscription Template Attributes Groups in the
same manner as the Job Creation operations. However, to cause the
Printer to validate as many Subscription Template Attributes as
possible, the Printer MUST assume that is can create up to the number of
Subscription Objects equal to the value of  .notify-max-job-
subscriptions-supported..

11.2.2 Get-Printer-Attributes - Extensions for Notification

This operation is extended so that it returns Printer attributes defined
in this document.

A Printer MUST support this extension to this operation.

In addition to the requirements of [ipp-mod] section 3.2.5, a Printer
MUST support the following additional values for the .requested-
attributes. Operation attribute in this operation and return such
attributes in the Printer Object Attributes group of its response.

  1. Subscription Template Attributes: Each supported attribute in
     column 2 of Table 1.

  2. New Printer Description Attributes: Each supported attribute in
     section 6.

  3. New Group Name: The .subscription-template. group name, which names
     all supported Subscription Template Attribute in column 2 of Table
     1.  Note: This group name is also used in the Get-Subscription-
     Attributes and Get-Subscriptions operation with an analogous
     meaning.

  4. Extended Group Name .printer-description.: The .printer-
     description. group name, which names all Printer Description
     attributes according to [ipp-mod] section 3.2.5.  In this extension
     .printer-description. names all attributes specified in [ipp-mod]
     plus those named in item 2 of this list.

  5. Extended Group Name .all.: The .all. group name, which names all
     Printer attributes according to [ipp-mod] section 3.2.5.  In this
     extension .all. names all attributes specified in [ipp-mod] plus
     those named in items 1 and 2 of this list.



11.2.3  Get-Subscription-Attributes operation

This operation allows a client to request the values of the attributes
of a Subscription Object.

A Printer MUST support this operation.



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This operation is almost identical to the Get-Job-Attributes operation
(see [ipp-mod] section 3.3.4).  The only differences are that the
operation is directed at a Subscription Object rather than a Job object,
and the returned attribute group contains Subscription Object attributes
rather than Job object attributes.


11.2.3.1  Get-Subscription-Attributes Request

The following groups of attributes are part of the Get-Subscription-
Attributes request:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in section [ipp-mod] 3.1.4.1.

  Target:
     The .printer-uri. attribute which defines the target for this
     operation as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.5.

  .notify-subscription-id. (integer (1:MAX)):
     The client MUST supply this attribute.  The Printer MUST support
     this attribute. This attribute specifies the Subscription Object
     from which the client is requesting attributes. If the client omits
     this attribute, the Printer MUST reject this request with the
     .client-error-bad-request. status code.

  Requesting User Name:
     The .requesting-user-name. attribute SHOULD be supplied by the
     client as described in [ipp-mod] section 8.3.

   .requested-attributes. (1setOf keyword):
     The client OPTIONALLY supplies this attribute.  The Printer MUST
     support this attribute. This attribute specifies the attributes of
     the specified Subscription Object that the Printer MUST return in
     the response.  Each value of this attribute is either an attribute
     name (defined in sections 5.3 and 5.4) or an attribute group name.
     The attribute group names are:

       - .subscription-template.: all attributes that are both defined
          in section 5.3 and present on the specified Subscription
          Object (column 1 of Table 1).
       - .subscription-description.: all attributes that are both
          defined in section 5.4 and present on the specified
          Subscription Object (Table 2).
       - .all.: all attributes that are present on the specified
          Subscription Object.

     A Printer MUST support all these group names.

     If the client omits this attribute, the Printer MUST respond as if
     this attribute had been supplied with a value of .all..




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11.2.3.2  Get-Subscription-Attributes Response

The Printer returns the following sets of attributes as part of the Get-
Subscription-Attributes Response:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Status Message:
     Same as [ipp-mod].

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.2.  The
     .attributes-natural-language. MAY be the natural language of the
     Subscription Object, rather than the one requested.


Group 2: Unsupported Attributes

     See [ipp-mod] section 3.1.7 for details on returning Unsupported
     Attributes.

     The response NEED NOT contain the .requested-attributes. operation
     attribute with any supplied values (attribute keywords) that were
     requested by the client but are not supported by the Printer. If
     the Printer does return unsupported attributes referenced in the
     .requested-attributes. operation attribute and that attribute
     included group names, such as .all., the unsupported attributes
     MUST NOT include attributes described in the standard but not
     supported by the implementation.


Group 3: Subscription Attributes

     This group contains a set of attributes with their current values.
     Each attribute in this group:

     a)MUST be specified by the .requested-attributes. attribute in the
       request, AND

     b)MUST be present on the specified Subscription Object AND

     c)MUST  NOT be restricted by the security policy in force. For
       example, a Printer MAY prohibit a client who is not the creator
       of a Subscription Object from seeing some or all of its
       attributes. See [ipp-mod] section 8.

     The Printer can return the attributes of the Subscription Object in
     any order. The client MUST accept the attributes in any order.

11.2.4 Get-Subscriptions operation

This operation allows a client to retrieve the values of attributes of
all Subscription Objects belonging to a Job or Printer.

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This operation is similar to the Get-Subscription-Attributes operation,
except that this Get-Subscriptions operation returns attributes from
possibly more than one object.

This operation is similar to the Get-Jobs operation (see [ipp-mod]
section 3.2.6), except that the operation returns Subscription Objects
rather than Job objects.


11.2.4.1  Get-Subscriptions Request

The following groups of attributes are part of the Get-Subscriptions
request:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.1.

  Target:
     The .printer-uri. attribute which defines the target for this
     operation as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.5.

  Requesting User Name:
     The .requesting-user-name. attribute SHOULD be supplied by the
     client as described in [ipp-mod] section 8.3.

  .notify-job-id. (integer(1:MAX)):
     If the client specifies this attribute, the Printer returns the
     specified attributes of all Per-Job Subscription Objects associated
     with the Job whose .job-id. attribute value equals the value of
     this attribute. If the client does not specify this attribute, the
     Printer returns the specified attributes of all Per-Printer
     Subscription Objects. Note: there is no way to get all Per-Job
     Subscriptions.

  .limit. (integer(1:MAX)):
     The client OPTIONALLY supplies this attribute.  The Printer MUST
     support this attribute.  It is an integer value that determines the
     maximum number of Subscription Objects that a client will receive
     from the Printer even if the .my-subscriptions. attribute
     constrains which Subscription Objects are returned.  The limit is a
     .stateless limit. in that if the value supplied by the client is
     .N., then only the first .N. Subscription Objects are returned in
     the Get-Subscriptions Response.  There is no mechanism to allow for
     the next .M. Subscription Objects after the first .N. Subscription
     Objects.  If the client does not supply this attribute, the Printer
     responds with all applicable Subscription Objects.

  .requested-attributes. (1setOf type2 keyword):
     The client OPTIONALLY supplies this attribute.  The Printer MUST
     support this attribute. This attribute specifies the attributes of
     the specified Subscription Objects that the Printer MUST return in
     the response.  Each value of this attribute is either an attribute


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     name (defined in sections 5.3 and 5.4) or an attribute group name
     (defined in section 11.2.3.1). If the client omits this attribute,
     the Printer MUST respond as if the client had supplied this
     attribute with the one value: .notify-subscription-id..

  .my-subscriptions. (boolean):
     The client OPTIONALLY supplies this attribute.  The Printer MUST
     support this attribute.  If the value is .false., the Printer MUST
     consider the Subscription Objects from all users as candidates. If
     the value is .true., the Printer MUST return the Subscription
     Objects created by the requesting user of this request.  If the
     client does not supply this attribute, the Printer MUST respond as
     if the client had supplied the attribute with a value of .false..
     The means for authenticating the requesting user and matching the
     Subscription Objects is similar to that for Jobs which is described
     in [ipp-mod] section 8.

11.2.4.2  Get-Subscriptions Response

The Printer returns the following sets of attributes as part of the Get-
Subscriptions Response:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Status Message:
     Same as [ipp-mod].

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.2.


Group 2: Unsupported Attributes

     Same as for Get-Subscription-Attributes.


Groups 3 to N: Subscription Attributes

     The Printer responds with one Subscription Attributes Group for
     each requested Subscription Object (see the .notify-job-id.
     attribute in the Operation Attributes Group of this operation).

     The Printer returns Subscription Objects in any order.

     If the .limit. attribute is present in the Operation Attributes
     group of the request, the number of Subscription Attributes Groups
     in the response MUST NOT exceed the value of the .limit. attribute.

     It there are no Subscription Objects associated with the specified
     Job or Printer, the Printer MUST return zero Subscription
     Attributes Groups and it MUST NOT treat this case as an error,
     i.e., the status-code MUST be .successful-ok. unless something else
     causes the status code to have some other value.




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     See the Group 3 response (Subscription Attributes Group) of the
     Get-Subscription-Attributes operation (section 11.2.3.2) for the
     attributes that a Printer returns in this group.


11.2.5 Renew-Subscription operation

This operation allows a client to request the Printer to extend the
lease on a Per-Printer Subscription Object.

The Printer MUST support this operation.

The Printer MUST accept this request for a Per-Printer Subscription
Object in any of the target Printer.s states, i.e., .idle.,
.processing., or .stopped., but MUST NOT change the Printer.s .printer-
state. attribute.

The Printer MUST reject this request for a Per-Job Subscription Object
because it has no lease (see section 5.4.3). The status code returned
MUST be .client-error-not-possible..

Access Rights: The authenticated user (see [IPP-MOD] section 8.3)
performing this operation MUST either be the owner of the Per-Printer
Subscription Object or have Operator or Administrator access rights for
the Printer (see [IPP-MOD] sections 1 and 8.5).  Otherwise, the Printer
MUST reject the operation and return: the .client-error-forbidden.,
.client-error-not-authenticated., or .client-error-not-authorized.
status code as appropriate.


11.2.5.1  Renew-Subscription Request

The following groups of attributes are part of the Renew-Subscription
Request:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.1.

  Target:
     The .printer-uri. attribute which defines the target for this
     operation as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.5.

  .notify-subscription-id. (integer (1:MAX)):
     The client MUST supply this attribute.  The Printer MUST support
     this attribute. This attribute specifies the Per-Printer
     Subscription Object whose lease the Printer MUST renew. If the
     client omits this attribute, the Printer MUST reject this request
     with the .client-error-bad-request. status code.

  Requesting User Name:
     The .requesting-user-name. (name(MAX)) attribute SHOULD be supplied
     by the client as described in [ipp-mod] section 8.3.



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Group 2: Subscription Template Attributes


   .notify-lease-duration. (integer(0:MAX)):
     The client MAY supply this attribute. It indicates the number of
     seconds to renew the lease for the specified Subscription Object.
     A value of 0 requests an infinite lease (which MAY require Operator
     access rights). If the client omits this attribute, the Printer
     MUST use the value of the Printer.s .notify-lease-duration-default.
     attribute. See section 5.3.7 for more details.

11.2.5.2  Renew-Subscription Response

The Printer returns the following sets of attributes as part of the
Renew-Subscription Response:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Status Message:
     Same as [ipp-mod].

     The following are some of the status codes returned:

     successful-ok: The operation successfully renewed the lease on the
       Subscription Object for the requested duration..
     successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes: The operation
       successfully renewed the lease on the Subscription Object for
       some duration other than the amount requested.
     client-error-not-possible: The operation failed because the
       .notify-subscription-id. Operation attribute identified a Per-
       Job Subscription Object.
     client-error-not-found: The operation failed because the .notify-
       subscription-id. Operation attribute identified a non-existent
       Subscription Object.

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.2.  The
     .attributes-natural-language. MAY be the natural language of the
     Subscription Object, rather than the one requested.


Group 2: Unsupported Attributes

     See [ipp-mod] section 3.1.7 for details on returning Unsupported
     Attributes.


Group 3: Subscription Attributes

The Printer MUST return the following Subscription Attribute:

  .notify-lease-duration. (integer(0:MAX)):
     The value of this attribute MUST be the number of seconds that the
     Printer has granted for the lease of the Subscription Object (see
     section 5.3.7 for details, such as the value of this attribute when
     the Printer doesn.t support the requested value).


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11.2.6 Cancel-Subscription operation

This operation allows a client to delete a Subscription Object and stop
the Printer from sending more Event Notifications.  Once performed,
there is no way to reference the Subscription Object.

A Printer MUST supported this operation.

The Printer MUST accept this request in any of the target Printer.s
states, i.e., .idle., .processing., or .stopped., but MUST NOT change
the Printer.s .printer-state. attribute.

If the specified Subscription Object is a Per-Job Subscription Object,
the Printer MUST accept this request in any of the target Job.s states,
but MUST NOT change the Job.s .job-state. attribute or affect the Job.

Access Rights: The authenticated user (see [IPP-MOD] section 8.3)
performing this operation MUST either be the owner of the Subscription
Object or have Operator or Administrator access rights for the Printer
(see [IPP-MOD] sections 1 and 8.5).  Otherwise, the Printer MUST reject
the operation and return: the .client-error-forbidden., .client-error-
not-authenticated., or .client-error-not-authorized. status code as
appropriate.

Note:  There is no way to change any attributes on a  Subscription
Object, except the .notify-lease-duration. attribute (using the Renew-
Subscription operation).  In order to change other attributes, a client
performs a Subscription Creation Operation and Cancel-Subscription
operation on the old Subscription Object. If the client wants to avoid
missing Event Notifications, it performs the Subscription Creation
Operation first. If this order would create too many Subscription
Objects on the Printer, the client reverses the order.


11.2.6.1  Cancel-Subscription Request

The following groups of attributes are part of the Cancel-Subscription
Request:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.1.

  Target:
     The .printer-uri. attribute which defines the target for this
     operation as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.5.

  .notify-subscription-id. (integer (1:MAX)):
     The client MUST supply this attribute.  The Printer MUST support
     this attribute. This attribute specifies the Subscription Object


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     that the Printer MUST cancel. If the client omits this attribute,
     the Printer MUST reject this request with the .client-error-bad-
     request. status code.

  Requesting User Name:
     The .requesting-user-name. attribute SHOULD be supplied by the
     client as described in [ipp-mod] section 8.3.


11.2.6.2  Cancel-Subscription Response

The Printer returns the following sets of attributes as part of the
Cancel-Subscription Response:

Group 1: Operation Attributes

  Status Message:
     Same as [ipp-mod].

     The following are some of the status codes returned:

     successful-ok: The operation successfully canceled (deleted) the
       Subscription Object..
     client-error-not-found: The operation failed because the .notify-
       subscription-id. Operation attribute identified a non-existent
       Subscription Object.

  Natural Language and Character Set:
     The .attributes-charset. and .attributes-natural-language.
     attributes as described in [ipp-mod] section 3.1.4.2.  The
     .attributes-natural-language. MAY be the natural language of the
     Subscription Object, rather than the one requested.


Group 2: Unsupported Attributes

     See [ipp-mod] section 3.1.7 for details on returning Unsupported
     Attributes.


12 Conformance Requirements


It is OPTIONAL to implement this Event Notification specification.

If this Event Notification specification is implemented, Printers MUST:

meet the Conformance Requirements detailed in section 5 of [ipp-mod].

support all of the following attributes:

     a.REQUIRED Subscription Object attributes in section 5.

     b.REQUIRED Printer Description object attributes in section 6.

     c.REQUIRED attributes in Event Notification content in section 8.


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send Event Notifications that conform to the requirements of the
Delivery Method Document for each supported Delivery Method (the
conformance requirements for Delivery Method Documents is specified in
section 10).

support all operations as described in Table 15:

           Table 15 . Conformance Requirements for Operations

        Attribute                            Conformance requirements
        Subscription Attributes Group        REQUIRED
        Create-Printer-Subscriptions         REQUIRED
        (section 11.1.2)
        Create-Job-Subscriptions (section    OPTIONAL
        11.1.1)
        Validate-Job - extensions (section   REQUIRED
        11.2.1)
        Get-Printer-Attributes - extensions  REQUIRED
        (section 11.2.2)
        Get-Subscription-Attributes (section REQUIRED
        11.2.3)
        Get-Subscriptions (section 11.2.4)   REQUIRED
        Renew-Subscription (section 11.2.5)  REQUIRED
        Cancel-Subscription (section 11.2.6) REQUIRED


13 IANA Considerations


This section describes the procedures for registering Event Notification
Delivery Method proposals with IANA to be used with this document.  Such
Delivery Method proposals can be IETF standards track documents or
vendor-defined documents.  In either case, they will be registered with
IANA using procedures that extend those defined in [ipp-mod] section 6
and 11.

These extension procedures are aligned with the guidelines as set forth
by the IESG [IANA-CON].  Section 13.1 defines the format and content for
new registrations for consideration.  IANA will reject registration
proposals that leave out required information or do not follow the
appropriate format described in Section 13.1.

Implementers can, at any time, define new Event Notification Delivery
Methods by proposing the complete specification to IANA:

     iana@iana.org

or by filling out the appropriate form on the IANA web pages
(http://www.iana.org).

IANA will forward the registration proposal to the IPP Designated Expert
who will review the proposal with a mailing list that the Designated
Expert keeps for this purpose.  Initially, that list will be the mailing
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     ipp@pwg.org

even after the IPP WG is disbanded as permitted by [IANA-CON].  The IPP
Designated Expert is appointed by the IESG Area Director responsible for
IPP, according to [IANA-CON].

When a Delivery Method Document is approved, the IPP Designated Expert
becomes the point of contact for any future maintenance that might be
required for that registration.


13.1 Format and Requirements for IPP Delivery Method Registration
    Proposals

This section defines the format and requirements for an IPP Event
Notification Delivery Method Registration Proposal.  A Delivery Method
Registration Proposal:

1.MUST contain the following information:

  Type of registration:  IPP Event Notification Delivery Method
  Name of this delivery method:
  Proposed URL scheme name of this delivery method:
  Name of proposer:
  Address of proposer:
  Email address of proposer:
  Is this delivery method REQUIRED or OPTIONAL for conformance to the
  IPP Event Notification Specification document:
  Is this delivery method defining Machine Consumable and/or Human
  Consumable content:

2.MUST meet the conformance requirements for Delivery Method Documents
  specified in section 10.




14 Internationalization Considerations


This IPP Notification specification continues support for the
internationalization of [ipp-mod] of attributes containing text strings
and names.  Allowing a Subscribing Client to specify a different natural
language and charset for each Subscription Object increases the
internationalization support.

The Printer MUST be able to localize the content of Human Consumable
Event Notifications and to localize the value of .notify-text. attribute
in Machine Consumable Event Notifications that it sends to Notification
Recipients. For localization, the Printer MUST use the value of the
.notify-charset. attribute and the .notify-natural-language. attribute
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15 Security Considerations


By far the biggest security concern is the abuse of notification:
sending unwanted Event Notifications to third parties (i.e., spam).  The
problem is made worse by notification addresses that may be
redistributed to multiple parties (e.g., mailing lists).  There exist
scenarios where third party notification is required (see Scenario #2
and #3 in [ipp-not-req]).  The fully secure solution would require
active agreement of all recipients before sending out anything.
However, requirement #9 in [ipp-req] (.There is no requirement for IPP
Printer receiving the print request to validate the identity of an Event
recipient.) argues against this.  Certain systems may decide to disallow
third party Event Notifications (a traditional fax model).

Clients submitting Notification requests to the IPP Printer has the same
security issues as submitting an IPP/1.1 print job request.  The same
mechanisms used by IPP/1.1 can therefore be used by the client
Notification submission.  Operations that require authentication can use
the HTTP authentication.  Operations that require privacy can use the
HTTP/TLS privacy.

The Notification access control model should be similar to the IPP
access control model for Jobs.  Creating a Per-Printer Subscription
Object is associated with a user.  Only the creator or an Operator can
cancel the Subscription Object.  The system may limit the listing of
items to only those items owned by the user.  Some Subscription Objects
(e.g., those that have a lifetime longer than a job) can be done only by
privileged users (users having Operator and/or Administrator access
rights), if that is the authorization policy.

The standard security concerns (delivery to the right user, privacy of
content, tamper proof content) apply to the Delivery Method.  IPP should
use the security mechanism of the Delivery Method used.  Some delivery
mechanisms are more secure than others.  Therefore, sensitive Event
Notifications should use the Delivery Method that has the strongest
security.


16 Status Codes


The following status codes are defined as extensions for Notification
and are returned as the value of the .status-code. parameter in the
Operation Attributes Group of a response (see [ipp-mod] section
3.1.6.1). Operations in this document can also return the status codes
defined in section 13 of [ipp-mod]. The .successful-ok. status code is
an example of such a status code.


16.1 successful-ok-ignored-subscriptions (0x0003)

The Subscription Creation Operation was unable to create all requested
Subscription Objects.




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For a Create-Job-Subscriptions or Create-Printer-Subscriptions
operation, this status code means that the Printer created one or more
Subscription Objects, but not all requested Subscription Objects.

For a Job Creation operation, this status code means that the Printer
created the Job along with zero or more Subscription Objects. The
Printer returns this status code even if other job attributes are
unsupported or in conflict.  That is, if an IPP Printer finds a warning
that would allow it to return  .successful-ok-ignored-subscriptions. and
either .successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes. and/or
.successful-ok-conflicting-attributes., it MUST return .successful-ok-
ignored-subscriptions..


16.2 client-error-ignored-all-subscriptions (0x0414)

This status code is the same as .successful-ok-ignored-subscriptions.
except that only the Create-Job-Subscriptions and Create-Printer-
Subscriptions operation return it. They return this status code only
when the Printer creates zero Subscription Objects.


17 Status Codes in Subscription Attributes Groups


This section contains values of the .notify-status-code. attribute that
the Printer returns in a Subscription Attributes Group in a response
when the corresponding Subscription Object:

  1. is not created or

  2. is created and some of the client-supplied attributes are not
     supported.

The following sections are ordered in decreasing order of importance of
the status-codes.


17.1 client-error-uri-scheme-not-supported (0x040C)

This status code is defined in [ipp-mod]. This document extends its
meaning and allows it to be in a Subscription Attributes Group of a
response.

The scheme of the client-supplied URI in a .notify-recipient-uri.
Subscription Template Attribute in a Subscription Creation Operation is
not supported.  See section 5.3.1.


17.2 client-error-too-many-subscriptions (0x0415)

The number of Subscription Objects supported by the Printer would be
exceeded if this Subscription Object were created (see section 5.2).





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17.3 successful-ok-too-many-events (0x0005)

The client supplied more Events in the .notify-events. operation
attribute of a Subscription Creation Operation than the Printer
supports, as indicated in its .notify-max-events-supported. Printer
attribute (see section 5.3.2).


17.4 successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes (0x0001)

This status code is defined in [ipp-mod]. This document extends its
meaning to include unsupported Subscription Template Attributes and it
can appear in a Subscription Attributes Group.


18 Encodings of Additional Attribute Tags


This section assigns values to two attributes tags as extensions to the
encoding defined in [ipp-pro]).

The .subscription-attributes-tag. delimits Subscription Template
Attributes Groups in requests and Subscription Attributes Groups in
responses.

The .event-notification-attributes-tag. delimits Event Notifications in
Delivery Methods that use an IPP-like encoding.

The following table specifies the values for the delimiter tags:

   Tag Value (Hex)   Meaning

   0x06              .subscription-attributes-tag.
   0x07              .event-notification-attributes-tag.

19 References

[IANA-CON]
     Narte, T. and Alvestrand, H.T.:  Guidelines for Writing an IANA
     Considerations Section in RFCs, Work in Progress, draft-iesg-iana-
     considerations-04.txt, May 21, 1998.

[ipp-mod]
     deBry, R., , Hastings, T., Herriot, R., Isaacson, S., Powell, P.,
     .Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics., <draft-ietf-
     ipp-model-v11-07.txt>, work in progress, May 22, 2000.

[ipp-not-req]
     deBry, R., Lewis, H., Hastings, T., .Internet Printing
     Protocol/1.1: Requirements for IPP Notifications., <draft-ietf-ipp-
     not-03.txt>, work in progress, August 11, 1999.

[ipp-pro]
     Herriot, R., Butler, S., Moore, P., Tuner, R., .Internet Printing
     Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport., <draft-ietf-ipp-protocol-
     v11-06.txt>, work in progress, May 30, 2000.


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[ipp-prog]
     Hastings, T., Bergman, R., Lewis, H., .Proposed Job Progress
          Attributes for IPP., <draft-ietf-ipp-job-prog.txt>  work in
          progress, February 2, 2000.

[ipp-set]
     Kugler, C., , Hastings, T., Herriot, R., Lewis, H, .Internet
     Printing Protocol (IPP): Job and Printer Set Operations., <draft-
     ietf-ipp-job-printer-set-ops-01.txt>, work in progress, March 8,
     2000.

[ipp-set2]
     Kugler, C., , Hastings, T., Lewis, H,  .Internet Printing Protocol
     (IPP): Additional Operations, Set 2., <draft-ietf-ipp-ops-
     set2.txt>, work in progress, February 3, 2000.

[RFC2026]
     S. Bradner, "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", RFC
     2026, October 1996.

[RFC2119]
     S. Bradner, .Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
     Levels., RFC 2119 , March 1997

[RFC2566]
     deBry, R., , Hastings, T., Herriot, R., Isaacson, S., Powell, P.,
     .Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics., RFC 2566,
     April 1999.

[RFC2567]
     Wright, D., .Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol., RFC
     2567, April 1999.

[RFC2568]
     Zilles, S., .Rationale for the Structure and Model and Protocol for
     the Internet Printing Protocol., RFC 2568, April 1999.

[RFC2569]
     Herriot, R., Hastings, T., Jacobs, N., Martin, J., .Mapping between
     LPD and IPP Protocols., RFC 2569, April 1999.


20 Author.s Addresses

   Scott A. Isaacson (Editor)
   Novell, Inc.
   122 E 1700 S
   Provo, UT  84606

   Phone: 801-861-7366
   Fax: 801-861-2517
   e-mail: sisaacson@novell.com

   Tom Hastings


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

   Phone: 310-333-6413
   Fax: 310-333-5514
   e-mail: hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com


   Robert Herriot
   Xerox Corporation
   3400 Hillview Ave., Bldg #1
   Palo Alto, CA 94304

   Phone: 650-813-7696
   Fax:  650-813-6860
   Email: robert.herriot@pahv.xerox.com

   Roger deBry
   Utah Valley State College
   Orem, UT 84058

   Phone: (801) 222-8000
   EMail: debryro@uvsc.edu

   Jay Martin
   e-mail: jkm@underscore.com

   Michael Shepherd
   Xerox Corporation
   800 Phillips Road  MS 128-51E
   Webster, NY  14450

   Phone: 716-422-2338
   Fax: 716-265-8871
   e-mail: mshepherd@crt.xerox.com

   Ron Bergman (Editor)
   Hitachi Koki Imaging Solutions
   1757 Tapo Canyon Road
   Simi Valley, CA 93063-3394

   Phone: 805-578-4421
   Fax:  805-578-4001
   Email: rbergma@hitachi-hkis.com

A.   Appendix - Model for Notification with Cascading Printers

With this model (see Figure 2), there is an intervening Print server
between the human user and the output-device. So the system effectively
has two Printers.  There are two cases to consider.

  1. When the Printer 1 (in the server) generates Events, the system
     behaves like the client and Printer in Figure 1. In this case,



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     Printer 1 sends Event Notifications that are shown as Event
     Notifications (A) of  Figure 2,.

  2. When the Printer 2 (in the output-device) generates Events, there
     are two possible system configurations:

     a)Printer 1 forwards the client-supplied Subscription Creation
       Operations to the downstream Printer 2 and lets Printer 2 send
       the Event Notifications directly to the Notification Recipients
       supplied by the Client (Event Notifications(C) in the diagram).

     b)Printer 1 performs the client-supplied Subscription Creation
       Operations and also forwards the Subscription Creation
       Operations to Printer 2 with the Notification Recipient changed
       to be the Printer 1. When an Event occurs in Printer 2, Printer
       2 sends the Event Notification (B) to Notification Recipient of
       Printer 1, which relays the received Event Notification (B) to
       the client-supplied Notification Recipient (as Event
       Notifications(A) in the diagram). Note, when a client performs a
       Subscription Creation Operation, Printer 1 need not forward the
       Subscription Creation Operation to Printer 2 if it would create
       a duplicate Subscription Object on Printer 2.

Note: when Printer 1 is forwarding Subscription Creation Operations to
Printer 2, it may request Printer 2 to create additional Subscription
Objects (called .piggy-backing.).  Piggy-backing is useful when:

Device A is configured to accept (IPP or non-IPP) requests from other
servers.

Server S wants to receive Job Events that the client didn.t request and
Server S wants these Events for jobs it submits and not for other jobs.

                           server S                       device A
                        +------------+                 +------------+
                        |            |                 |            |
+--------+ Subscription | ###########|                 | ###########|
| client |--Creation ----># Printer #|  Subscription   | # Printer #|
+--------+  Operation   | # Object 1#|---Creation------|># Object 2#|
                        | ###|#######|   Operation     | ####|#|####|
                        +----|---^---+                 +-----|-|----+
+--------+     Event         |   |                           | |
|Notific-|<-Notifications(A)-+   +-- Event Notifications(B)--+ |
|ation Re|<-------------Event Notifications(C)-----------------+
|cipient |
+--------+

       Figure 2 . Model for Notification with Cascading Printers

B.   Appendix - Distributed Model for Notification

A Printer implementation could use some other remote notification
service to provide some or most of the service. For example, the remote
notification service could send Event Notifications using Delivery
Methods that are not directly supported by the output device or server.


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Or, the remote notification service could store Subscription Objects
(passed to it from the output device in response to Subscription
Creation requests), accept Events, format the Event Notification in the
natural language of the Notification Recipient, and send the Event
Notifications to the Notification Recipient(s).

Figure 3 shows this partitioning. The interface between the output
device (or server) and the remote notification service is outside the
scope of this document and is intended to be transparent to the client
and this document.  The combination of the output device (or server) and
the notification service together constitute an IPP Printer conforming
to this Notification document.




                                        output device or server
                                           +---------------+
   PDA, desktop, or server                 +  ###########  +
        +--------+                         |  # partial #  |
        | client |---IPP Subscription--------># Printer #  |
        +--------+   Creation operation    |  # Object  #  |
                                           |  #####|#####  |
                                           +-------|-------+
                                                   | Subscriptions
                                            *******| OR Event
     +------------+                        *       | Notifications
     |Notification|   IPP-defined         * +------v--------+
     |Recipient   |<--Event Notifications---| Notification  |
     +------------+                      *  | Service       |
                                         *  +---------------+
                                         *
                                         *
     *** = Implementation configuration opaque boundary


   Figure 3 . Opaque Use of a Notification Service Transparent to the
                                 Client

C.   Appendix - Extended Notification Recipient

The model allows for an extended Notification Recipient that is itself a
notification service that forwards each Event Notification to another
recipient (called the Ultimate Notification Recipient in this section).
The Delivery Method to the Ultimate Recipient is probably different from
the Delivery Method used by the Printer to the extended Notification
Recipient.

This extended Notification Recipient is transparent to the Printer but
not to the client.

When a client performs a Subscription Creation Operation, it specifies
the extended Notification Recipient as it would any Notification
Recipient. In addition, the client specifies the Ultimate Notification
Recipient in the Subscription Creation Operation in a manner specified


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by the extended Notification Recipient. Typically, it is either some
bytes in the value of .notify-user-data. or some additional parameter in
the value of .notify-recipient-uri.. The client also subscribes directly
with the extended Notification Recipient (by means outside this
document), since it is a notification service in its own right.

The IPP Printer treats the extended Notification Recipient like any
other Notification Recipient and the IPP Printer is not aware of the
forwarding. The Delivery Method that the extended Notification Recipient
uses for delivering the Event Notification to the Ultimate Notification
Recipient is beyond the scope of this document and is transparent to the
IPP Printer.

Examples of this extended Notification Recipient are paging, immediate
messaging services, general notification services, and NOS vendors.
infrastructure.  Figure 4 shows this approach.


   PDA, desktop, or server                    server or output device
                                                   +---------------+
       +--------+                                  |  ###########  |
       | client |---Subscription Creation -----------># Printer #  |
       +--------+       Operation                  |  # Object  #  |
                                                   |  #####|#####  |
+------------+     +------------+   IPP-defined    +-------|-------+
|Ultimate    | any |Notification|<--Event Notifications----+
|Notification|<----|Recipient   |
|Recipient   |     +------------+
+------------+     (Notification Service)

Figure 4 . Use of an Extended Notification Recipient transparent to the
                                Printer

D.   Appendix - Details about Conformance Terminology

  The following paragraph provide more details about conformance
     terminology.

  REQUIRED - an adjective used to indicate that a conforming IPP
     Printer implementation MUST support the indicated operation,
     object, attribute, attribute value, status code, or out-of-band
     value in requests and responses.  See [ipp-mod] .Appendix A -
     Terminology for a definition of .support..  Since support of this
     entire Notification specification is OPTIONAL for conformance to
     IPP/1.0 or IPP/1.1, the use of the term REQUIRED in this document
     means .REQUIRED if this OPTIONAL Notification specification is
     implemented..

  RECOMMENDED - an adjective used to indicate that a conforming IPP
     Printer implementation is recommended to support the indicated
     operation, object, attribute, attribute value, status code, or out-
     of-band value in requests and responses.  Since support of this
     entire Notification specification is OPTIONAL for conformance to
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     document means .RECOMMENDED if this OPTIONAL Notification
     specification is implemented..

  OPTIONAL - an adjective used to indicate that a conforming IPP
     Printer implementation MAY, but is NOT REQUIRED to, support the
     indicated operation, object, attribute, attribute value, status
     code, or out-of-band value in requests and responses.

E.   Appendix - Object Model for Notification

This section describes the Notification object model that adds a
Subscription Object which together with the Job and Printer object
provide the complete Notification semantics.

The object relationships can be seen pictorially as:


   Subscription Objects (Per-Printer Subscriptions)     Printer object
   +----+                                                +------------+
   | s1 |<---------------------------------------------->|            |
   +----++                                               |            |
    | s2 |<--------------------------------------------->|     p1     |
    +----++                                              |            |
     | s3 |<-------------------------------------------->|            |
     +----+                                              +------------+
                    Job objects
                     +---------+
                     |         |
     +----+          |   j1    |
     | s4 |<-------->|         |
     +----+          |         |
                     |         |    s4 is a Per-Job Subscription Object
                     ++--------++
                      |         |
       +----+         |   j2    |
       | s5 |<------->|         |
       +----++        |         |
        | s6 |<------>|         |    s5 and s6 are Per-Job Subscription
        +----+        ++--------++                  Objects
                       |         |
                       |   j3    |
                       |         |
                       |         |         <----> indicates association
                       +---------+

                Figure 5 . Object Model for Notification

     s1, s2, and s3 are Per-Printer Subscription Objects and can
     identify Printer and/or Job Events.
     s4, s5, and s6 are Per-Job Subscription Objects and can identify
     Printer and/or Job Events.

E.1  Appendix - Object relationships

This sub-section defines the object relationships between the Printer,
Job, and Subscription Objects by example.  Whether Per-Printer


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Subscription Objects are actually contained in a Printer object or are
just bi-directionally associated with them in some way is IMPLEMENTATION
DEPENDENT and is transparent to the client.  Similarly, whether Per-Job
Subscription Objects are actually contained in a Job object or are just
bi-directionally associated with them in some way is IMPLEMENTATION
DEPENDENT and is transparent to the client.  The object relationships
are defined as follows:

E.2  Printer Object and Per-Printer Subscription Objects

  1. The Printer object contains (is associated with) zero or more Per-
     Printer Subscription Objects (p1 contains s1-s3 Per-Printer
     Subscription Objects).

  2. Each Per-Printer Subscription Object (s1, s2, and s3) is contained
     in (or is associated with) exactly one Printer object (p1).

E.3  Job Object and Per-Job Subscription Objects

  1. A Job object (j1, j2, j3) is associated with zero or more Per-Job
     Subscription Objects (s4-s6).  Job j1 is associated with Per-Job
     Subscription Object s4, Job j2 is associated with Per-Job
     Subscription Objects s5 and s6, and Job j3 is not associated with
     any Per-Job Subscription Object.

  2. Each Per-Job Subscription Object is associated with exactly one Job
     object.

F.   Appendix - Per-Job versus Per-Printer Subscription Objects

Per-Job and Per-Printer Subscription Objects are quite similar.  Either
type of Subscription Object can subscribe to Job Events, Printer Events,
or both.  Both types of Subscription Objects can be queried using the
Get-Subscriptions and Get-Subscription-Attributes operations and
canceled using the Cancel-Subscription operation.  Both types of
Subscription Objects create Subscription Objects which have the same
Subscription Object attributes defined.  However, there are some
semantic differences between Per-Job Subscription Objects and Per-
Printer Subscription Objects.  A Per-Job Subscription Object is
established by the client when submitting a job and after creating the
job using the Create-Job-Subscriptions operation by specifying the .job-
id. of the Job with the .notify-job-id. attribute.  A Per-Printer
Subscription Object is established between a client and a Printer using
the Create-Printer-Subscriptions operation.  Some specific differences
are:

1.A client usually creates one or more Per-Job Subscription Objects as
  part of the Job Creation operations (Create-Job, Print-Job, and
  Print-URI), rather than using the OPTIONAL Create-Job-Subscriptions
  operation, especially since Printer implementations NEED NOT support
  the Create-Job-Subscriptions operation, since it is OPTIONAL.

2.For Per-Job Subscription Objects, the Subscription Object is only
  valid while the job is .not-complete. (see sections 5.4.3) while for


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  the Per-Printer Subscription Objects, the Subscription Object is
  valid until the time (in seconds) that the Printer returned in the
  .notify-lease-expiration-time. operation attribute.

3.Job Events in a Per-Job Subscription Object apply only to .one job.
  (the Job created by the Job Creation  operation or references by the
  Create-Job-Subscriptions operation) while Job Events in a Per-Printer
  Subscription Object apply to ALL jobs contained in the IPP Printer.



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