Internet Printing Protocol WG                    Robert Herriot (editor)
INTERNET-DRAFT                                               Xerox Corp.
<draft-ietf-ipp-notify-get-05.txt>                           Carl Kugler
Updates:  RFC 2911                                           Harry Lewis
[Target category:  standards track]                           IBM, Corp.
Expires:  April 17, 2002                                October 17, 2001


                     Internet Printing Protocol (IPP):
            The 'ippget' Delivery Method for Event Notifications

      Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.

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Abstract

   This document describes an extension to the Internet Printing
   Protocol/1.0 (IPP) [RFC2566, RFC2565] and IPP/1.1 [RFC2911, RFC2910].
   This document specifies the 'ippget' Delivery Method for use with the
   "IPP Event Notifications and Subscriptions" specification [ipp-ntfy].
   When IPP Notification [ipp-ntfy] is supported, the Delivery Method
   defined in this document is one of the RECOMMENDED Delivery Methods
   for Printers to support.

   The 'ippget' Delivery Method is a 'pull' Delivery Method with aspects
   of a 'push' method as well. That is, when an Event occurs, the
   Printer saves the Event Notification for a period of time called the
   Event Life.  The Notification Recipient fetches (pulls) Event
   Notifications using the Get-Notifications operation.  If the
   Notification Recipient has selected the Event Wait Mode option to

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   wait for additional Event Notifications, the Printer continues to
   return (similar to push) Event Notifications to the Notification
   Recipient as Get-Notification responses as Events occur.  This push
   aspect is not a true 'push', since the Printer does not open the
   connect, but rather continues to return responses as Events occur
   using the connection originated by the Notification Recipient.

   Either the Notification Recipient or the Printer can terminate Event
   Wait Mode without closing the connection.








































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Table of Contents


   1 Introduction.....................................................5

   2 Terminology......................................................6

   3 Model and Operation..............................................7

   4 General Information..............................................9

   5 Get-Notifications operation.....................................10
   5.1 Get-Notifications Request.....................................12
   5.1.1 "notify-subscription-ids" (1setOf integer(1:MAX)):..........12
   5.1.2 notify-sequence-numbers (1setOf integer(1:MAX)).............13
   5.1.3 "notify-wait" (boolean):....................................14
   5.2 Get-Notifications Response....................................14
   5.2.1 "notify-get-interval" (integer(0:MAX))......................17
   5.2.2 "printer-up-time" (integer(1:MAX)):.........................19
   5.2.3 "redirect-uri" (uri):.......................................19

   6 Additional Information about Subscription Template Attributes...23
   6.1 notify-recipient-uri (uri)....................................23

   7 Subscription Description Attributes.............................24

   8 Additional Printer Description Attributes.......................24
   8.1 ippget-event-life (integer(15:MAX))...........................24

   9 New Values for Existing Printer Description Attributes..........25
   9.1 notify-schemes-supported (1setOf uriScheme)...................25
   9.2 operations-supported (1setOf type2 enum)......................26

   10 New Status Codes...............................................26
   10.1 successful-ok-events-complete (0x0007).......................26
   10.2 redirection-other-site (0x0300)..............................26

   11 The IPPGET URL Scheme..........................................27
   11.1 The IPPGET URL Scheme Applicability and Intended Usage.......27
   11.2 The IPPGET URL Scheme Associated Port........................27
   11.3 The IPPGET URL Scheme Associated MIME Type...................27
   11.4 The IPPGET URL Scheme Character Encoding.....................28
   11.5 The IPPGET URL Scheme Syntax in ABNF.........................28
   11.5.1 IPPGET URL Examples........................................29
   11.5.2 IPPGET URL Comparisons.....................................30

   12 Encoding and Transport.........................................30

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   13 Conformance Requirements.......................................31
   13.1 Conformance for IPP Printers.................................31
   13.2 Conformance for IPP Clients..................................32

   14 IANA Considerations............................................33
   14.1 Additional attribute value registrations for existing attributes
         33
   14.1.1 Additional values for the "notify-schemes-supported" Printer
              attribute..............................................33
   14.1.2 Additional values for the "operations-supported" Printer
              attribute..............................................34
   14.2 Operation Registrations......................................34
   14.3 Attribute Registrations......................................35
   14.4 Status code Registrations....................................35

   15 Internationalization Considerations............................35

   16 Security Considerations........................................35

   17 References.....................................................36

   18 Authors' Addresses.............................................38

   19 Description of Base IPP documents..............................39

   20 Full Copyright Statement.......................................40


Table of Tables

   Table 1 - Information about the Delivery Method....................9
   Table 2 - Combinations of "notify-wait", "status-code", and "notify-
      get-interval" .................................................18
   Table 3 - Attributes in Event Notification Content................21
   Table 4 - Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for Job
      Events ........................................................22
   Table 5 - Combinations of Events and Subscribed Events for "job-
      impressions-completed" ........................................23
   Table 6 - Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for
      Printer Events ................................................23
   Table 7 - Operation-id assignments................................26
   Table 8 - The "event-notification-attributes-tag" value...........31







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1 Introduction

   The "IPP Event Notifications and Subscriptions" document [ipp-ntfy]
   defines an OPTIONAL extension to Internet Printing Protocol/1.0 (IPP)
   [RFC2566, RFC2565] and IPP/1.1 [RFC2911, RFC2910].  For a description
   of the base IPP documents, see section 19.  The [ipp-ntfy] extension
   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.
   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 Subscription
   Objects: Get-Subscriptions-Attributes, Get-Subscriptions, Renew-
   Subscription, and Cancel-Subscription.  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).

   The "IPP Event Notifications and Subscriptions" document [ipp-ntfy]
   specifies that each Delivery Method is defined in another document.
   This document is one such document, and it specifies the 'ippget'
   delivery method.  When IPP Notification [ipp-ntfy] is supported, the
   Delivery Method defined in this document is one of the RECOMMENDED
   Delivery Methods for Printers to support.

   The 'ippget' Delivery Method is a 'pull' Delivery Method with aspects
   of a 'push' method as well.  That is, when an Event occurs, the
   Printer saves the Event Notification for a period of time called the
   Event Life.  The Notification Recipient fetches (pulls) the Event
   Notifications using the Get-Notifications operation.  This operation
   causes the Printer to return all Event Notifications held for the
   specified Subscription object(s).  If the Notification Recipient has
   selected the Event Wait Mode option to wait for additional Event
   Notifications, the Printer continues to return (similar to push)
   Event Notifications to the Notification Recipient as Get-Notification
   responses as Events occur.  This push aspect is not a true 'push',
   since the Printer does not open the transaction, but rather continues
   to return responses as Events occur using the transaction originated
   by the Notification Recipient.

   The Notification Recipient can terminate Event Wait Mode (without
   closing the connection) by supplying the "notify-wait" attribute with
   a 'false' value in a subsequent Get-Notifications request.
   Similarly, the Printer can terminate Event Wait Mode (without closing
   the connection) by returning the "notify-get-interval" operation

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   attribute in a Get-Notifications response which tells the
   Notification Recipient how long to wait before trying again.


2 Terminology

   This section defines the following terms that are used throughout
   this document:

   This document uses the same terminology as [RFC2911], such as
   "client", "Printer", "Job", "attribute", "attribute value",
   "keyword", "operation", "request", "response", and "support".

   Capitalized terms, such as MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHOULD, SHOULD
   NOT, MAY, NEED NOT, and OPTIONAL, have special meaning relating to
   conformance as defined in RFC 2119 [RFC2119] and [RFC2911] section
   12.1.  If an implementation supports the extension defined in this
   document, then these terms apply; otherwise, they do not.  These
   terms define conformance to this document only; they do not affect
   conformance to other documents, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

   Event Life: The length of time in seconds after an Event occurs
        during which the Printer will return that Event in a Event
        Notification in a Get-Notifications response.  After the Event
        Life expires, the Printer will no longer return an Event
        Notification for that Even in a Get-Notifications response.

   Event Notification Attributes Group: The attributes group in a
        response that contains attributes that are part of an Event
        Notification.

   Event Wait Mode: The mode requested by a Notification Recipient
        client in its Get-Notifications Request and granted by a Printer
        to keep the connection open where the Printer sends subsequent
        Event Notifications to the Notification Recipient as they occur
        as additional Get-Notification Responses.

   Other capitalized terms, such as Notification Recipient, Event, Event
        Notification, Compound Event Notification, Printer, etc.,  are
        defined in [ipp-ntfy], have the same meanings, and are not
        reproduced here.  However, for convenience the following key
        terms are reproduced here:

   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 time and does not span the time the physical
        Event takes place.  For example, jam-occurred and jam-cleared

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        are two distinct, instantaneous Events, even though the jam may
        last for a while.

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


3 Model and Operation

   In a Subscription Creation Operation, when the value of the "notify-
   recipient-uri" attribute has the scheme 'ippget', the client is
   requesting that the Printer use the 'ippget' Delivery Method for the
   Event Notifications associated with the new Subscription Object.  The
   client SHOULD choose a value for the address part of the "notify-
   recipient-uri" attribute that uniquely identifies the Notification
   Recipient.

   When an Event occurs, the Printer MUST generate an Event Notification
   and MUST assign it the Event Life.  The Printer MUST hold an Event
   Notification for its assigned Event Life.

   When a Notification Recipient wants to receive Event Notifications
   for a Subscription object, it performs the Get-Notifications
   operation supplying the Subscription object's subscription-id, which
   causes the Printer to return all un-expired Event Notifications held
   for that Subscription object.  If the Notification Recipient has
   selected the Event Wait Mode option to wait for additional Event
   Notifications, the response to the Get-Notifications request
   continues indefinitely as the Printer continues to send Event
   Notifications in the response as Events occur for that Subscription
   object.

   When the Notification Recipient requests Event Notifications for per-
   Job Subscription Objects, the Notification Recipient typically
   performs the Get-Notifications operation within a second of
   performing the Subscription Creation operation.  Because the Printer
   MUST save Event Notifications for at least 15 seconds (see section
   8.1), the Notification Recipient is unlikely to miss any Event
   Notifications that occur between the Subscription Creation and the
   Get-Notifications operation.

   ISSUE 01:  Although we agreed to extend Job Creation operations to
   support Event Wait Mode, it seems to be an unnecessary complication,
   since the Printer MUST keep events for at least 15 seconds.  So OK
   NOT to add the "notify-wait" (boolean) operation attribute to Job
   Creation operations and NOT have to have Job Creation responses
   return Event Notification Groups (in addition to returning
   Subscription Attribute Groups).

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   The 'ippget' Delivery Method is designed primarily for (1) a client
   that wants to get Events (from the job's per-Job Subscription object)
   for a job that it has submitted and (2) for a privileged client that
   wants to get all job or printer Events from a per-Printer
   Subscription object.  If several groups of users expect to receive
   jobs from other users (FAX paradigm) and each group has a different
   designated person, say, a secretary, to receive job completion
   Events, the Printer should be configured to support multiple URLs,
   one for each group.  Then the designated person can run an
   application that gets the events for jobs submitted to that URL from
   the per-Printer Subscription object that the application creates.






































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4 General Information

   If a Printer supports this Delivery Method, the following are its
   characteristics.


              Table 1 - Information about the Delivery Method


   Document Method Conformance Requirement     Delivery Method
                                               Realization


   1. What is the URL scheme name for the      ippget
      Delivery Method?

   2. Is the Delivery Method REQUIRED,         RECOMMENDED
      RECOMMENDED or OPTIONAL for an IPP
      Printer to support?

   3. What transport and delivery protocols    IPP with one new
      does the Printer use to deliver the      operation.
      Event Notification Content, i.e., what
      is the entire network stack?

   4. Can several Event Notifications be       Yes.
      combined into a Compound Event
      Notification?

   5. Is the Delivery Method initiated by      This Delivery Method is
      the Notification Recipient (pull), or    a pull method with
      by the Printer (push)?                   aspects of a push
                                               method, though the
                                               Printer does not
                                               initiate the connection.

   6. Is the Event Notification content        Machine Consumable
      Machine Consumable or Human
      Consumable?

   7. What section in this document answers    Section 5
      the following question? For a Machine
      Consumable Event Notification, what is
      the representation and encoding of
      values defined in section 9.1 of [ipp-
      ntfy] and the conformance requirements
      thereof? For a Human Consumable Event
      Notification, what is the

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      Notification, what is the
      representation and encoding of pieces
      of information defined in section 9.2
      of [ipp-ntfy] and the conformance
      requirements thereof?

   8. What are the latency and reliability     Same as IPP and the
      of the transport and delivery            underlying HTTP
      protocol?                                transport

   9. What are the security aspects of the     Same as IPP and the
      transport and delivery protocol, e.g.,   underlying HTTP
      how it is handled in firewalls?          transport and in the
                                               same direction, so no
                                               new firewall
                                               considerations.

   10.What are the content length              None
      restrictions?

   11.What are the additional values or
      pieces of information that a Printer
      sends in an Event Notification content
      and the conformance requirements
      thereof?                                 None

   12.What are the additional Subscription     None
      Template and/or Subscription
      Description attributes and the
      conformance requirements thereof?

   13.What are the additional Printer          "ipp-event-life"
      Description attributes and the           (integer (15: MAX))
      conformance requirements thereof?




5 Get-Notifications operation

   This operation is issued by a client acting in the role of a
   Notification Recipient requesting the Printer to return all Event
   Notifications held for the identified Subscription object(s).

   A Printer MUST support this operation.



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   When a Printer performs this operation, it MUST return all and only
   those Event Notifications:

     1. Whose associated Subscription Object's "notify-subscription-id"
        Subscription Description attribute equals one of the values of
        the "notify-subscription-ids" (1setOf integer(1:MAX)) operation
        attribute AND

     2. Whose associated Subscription Object's "notify-recipient-uri"
        attribute matches the scheme value of 'ippget' using the (case-
        insensitive) matching rules in section 11.5.2 AND

     3. Whose "notify-sequence-number" is equal to or greater than the
        corresponding value of the "notify-sequence-numbers (1setOf
        integer(1:MAX)) operation attribute, if supplied AND

     4. Whose Event Life has not yet expired AND

     5. Where the Notification Recipient is the owner of or has read-
        access rights to the identified Subscription Object.

   The Notification Recipient client can request Event Wait Mode by
   supplying the "notify-wait" operation attribute with a 'true' value.

   The Notification Recipient client can terminate Event Wait Mode
   (without closing the connection) by supplying the "notify-wait"
   attribute with a 'false' value in a subsequent Get-Notifications
   request.  Similarly, the Printer can terminate Event Wait Mode
   (without closing the connection) by returning the "notify-get-
   interval" operation attribute in a Get-Notifications response which
   tells the Notification Recipient how long to wait before trying
   again.

   The Printer MUST accept the request in any state (see [RFC2911]
   "printer-state" and "printer-state-reasons" attributes) and MUST
   remain in the same state with the same "printer-state-reasons"
   values.

   Access Rights: If the policy of the Printer is to allow all users to
   access all Event Notifications, then the Printer MUST accept this
   operation from any user.  Otherwise, the authenticated user (see
   [RFC2911] section 8.3) performing this operation MUST be the owner of
   each Subscription Object identified by the "notify-subscription-ids"
   operation attribute (as returned during a Subscription Creation
   Operation) or an operator or administrator of the Printer (see
   [RFC2911] Sections 1 and 8.5).  Otherwise, the IPP object MUST reject
   the operation and return: 'client-error-forbidden', 'client-error-


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   not-authenticated', or 'client-error-not-authorized' status code as
   appropriate.


5.1 Get-Notifications Request

   The following groups of attributes are part of the Get-Notifications
   Request:

   Group 1: Operation Attributes

      Natural Language and Character Set:
         The "attributes-charset" and "attributes-natural-language"
         attributes as described in [RFC2911] section 3.1.4.1.

      Target:
         The "printer-uri" (uri) operation attribute which is the target
         for this operation as described in [RFC2911] section 3.1.5.

      Requesting User Name:
         The "requesting-user-name" (name(MAX)) attribute SHOULD be
         supplied by the client as described in [RFC2911] section 8.3.


      5.1.1 "notify-subscription-ids" (1setOf integer(1:MAX)):

         This attribute identifies one or more Subscription objects for
         which Events are requested.  The client MUST supply this
         attribute with at least one value.  The Printer object MUST
         support this attribute with multiple values.

         If no Subscription Object exists with the supplied identifier,
         the Printer MUST return the 'client-error-not-found' status
         code.

         If an identified Subscription Object does not have a "notify-
         recipients-uri" Subscription attribute with 'ippget' scheme
         (case insensitive-match - see section 11.5.2), the Printer MUST
         reject the request and return the 'client-error-uri-scheme-not-
         supported' status code.

               Note:  The name of both the "notify-subscription-ids" and
               "notify-sequence-numbers" end in 's', since they are
               multi-valued.  However, there are other occurrences of
               these attribute names without the 's' that are single
               valued.



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      5.1.2 notify-sequence-numbers (1setOf integer(1:MAX))

         This attribute specifies one or more lowest Event Notification
         sequence number values for the Subscription objects identified
         by the corresponding values of the "notify-subscription-ids"
         operation attribute.  The Notification Recipient SHOULD supply
         this attribute and the number of values SHOULD be the same as
         the number of values of the "notify-subscriptions-ids"
         attribute.  The Printer MUST support this attribute with
         multiple values.

         The Printer MUST NOT return Notification Events with lower
         sequence numbers for the corresponding Subscription object.
         Therefore, by supplying the proper values for this attribute
         the Notification Recipient can prevent getting the same Event
         Notifications from a Subscription object that were returned on
         a previous Get-Notifications request.  The Notification
         Recipient SHOULD remember the highest "notify-sequence-number"
         value returned for each Subscription object requested and
         SHOULD pass that value for each requested Subscription object
         on the next Get-Notifications request.

         If the Notification Recipient supplies fewer values for this
         attribute (including omitting this attribute) than for the
         "notify-subscription-ids" operation attribute, the Printer
         assumes a '1' value for each missing value.  A value of '1'
         causes the Printer to return any un-expired Event Notification
         for that Subscription object, since '1' is the lowest possible
         sequence number.  If the Notification Recipient supplies more
         values for this attribute than the number of values for the
         "notify-subscription-ids" operation attribute, the Printer
         ignores the extra values.

         Note: If a Notification Recipient performs two consecutive Get-
         Notifications operations with the same value for "notify-
         sequence-number" (or omits the attribute), the time stamp of
         the first Event Notification in the second Get-Notifications
         Response may be less than the time stamp of the last Event
         Notification in the first Get-Notification Response.  This
         happens because the Printer sends all unexpired Event
         Notification with a sequence number equal or higher according
         to the ordering specified in [ipp-ntfy] and some Event
         Notifications from the first Get-Notifications operation may
         not have expired by the time the second Get-Notifications
         operation occurs.




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      5.1.3 "notify-wait" (boolean):

         This value indicates whether or not the Notification Recipient
         wants Event Wait Mode.  The client MAY supply this attribute.
         The Printer object MUST support both values of this attribute.

         If the client supplies the 'false' value or omits this
         attribute, the client is not requesting Event Wait Mode.  If
         the value is 'true', the client is requesting Event Wait Mode.
         See the beginning of section 5.2 for the rules for Event Wait
         Mode.

5.2 Get-Notifications Response

   The Printer has the following options for responding to a Get-
   Notifications Request:

     1. The Printer can reject the request and return the 'server-error-
        busy' status code, if the Printer is too busy to accept this
        operation at this time.  In this case, the Printer MUST return
        the "get-notify-interval" operation attribute to indicate when
        the client SHOULD try again.

     2. If the Notification Recipient did not request Event Wait Mode
        ("notify-wait-mode" = 'false' or omitted), the Printer MUST
        return immediately whatever Event Notifications it currently
        holds in the requested Subscription object(s) and MUST return
        the "notify-get-interval" operation attribute with number of
        seconds from now at which the Notification Recipient SHOULD
        repeat the Get-Notifications Request to get future Event
        Notifications.

     3. If the Notification Recipient requested Event Wait Mode
        ("notify-wait-mode" = 'true'), the Printer MUST return
        immediately whatever Event Notifications it currently holds in
        the requested Subscription object(s) and MUST continue to return
        Event Notifications as they occur until all of the requested
        Subscription Objects are canceled.  A Subscription Object is
        canceled either via the Cancel-Subscription operation or by the
        Printer (e.g., the Subscription Object is canceled when the
        associated Job completes and is no longer in the Job Retention
        or Job History phase - see the "ippget-event-life
        (integer(15:MAX))" attribute discussion in section 8.1).

        However, the Printer MAY decide to terminate Event Wait Mode at
        any time, including in the first response.  In this case the
        Printer MUST return the "notify-get-interval" operation
        attribute.  This attribute indicates that the Printer wishes to

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        leave Event Wait Mode and the number of seconds in the future
        that the Notification Recipient SHOULD try the Get-Notifications
        operation again.  The Notification Recipient MUST accept this
        response and MUST disconnect.  If the Notification Recipient
        does not disconnect, the Printer SHOULD do so.

   From the Notification Recipient's view, the response appears as an
   initial burst of data, which includes the Operation Attributes Group
   and one Event Notification Attributes Group per Event Notification
   that the Printer is holding.  After the initial burst of data, if the
   Notification Recipient has selected the Event Wait Mode option to
   wait for additional Event Notifications, the Notification Recipient
   receives occasional Event Notification Attribute Groups. Proxy
   servers may delay some Event Notifications or cause time-outs to
   occur.  The client MUST be prepared to perform the Get-Notifications
   operation again when time-outs occur.

   Each attribute is encoded using the IPP rules for encoding attributes
   [RFC2910] and MAY be encoded in any order.  Note: the Get-Jobs
   response in [RFC2911] acts as a model for encoding multiple groups of
   attributes.  See section 12 for the encoding and transport rules.

   The following groups of attributes are part of the Get-Notifications
   Response:

   Group 1: Operation Attributes

      Status Message:
         In addition to the REQUIRED status code returned in every
         response, the response OPTIONALLY includes a "status-message"
         (text(255)) and/or a "detailed-status-message" (text(MAX))
         operation attribute as described in [RFC2911] sections 13 and
         3.1.6.

         The Printer can return any status codes defined in [RFC2911].
         If the status code is not 'successful-xxx', the Printer MUST
         NOT return any Event Notification Attribute groups. The
         following is a description of the important status codes:

            successful-ok: the response contains all Event Notification
               associated with the specified subscription-ids that had
               been supplied in the "notify-subscription-ids" operation
               attribute in the request. If the requested Subscription
               Objects have no associated Event Notification, the
               response MUST contain zero Event Notifications.
            successful-ok-events-complete:  indicate when this return
               is the last return for all Subscription objects that
               match the request, whether or not there are Event

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               Notifications being returned.  This condition occurs for
               Event Wait Mode with Notification Recipients waiting for
               responses when the Subscription Object is: (1) canceled
               with a Cancel-Subscription operation, (2) deleted when
               the Per-Printer Subscription lease time expires, or (3)
               when the 'job-completed' event occurs for a Per-Job
               Subscription.  This condition also occurs for a Get-
               Notifications request that a Notification Recipient makes
               after the job completes, but before the Event Life
               expires.  See section 10.1.
            client-error-not-found: The Printer has no Subscription
               Object's whose "notify-subscription-id" attribute equals
               any of the values of the "notify-subscription-ids"
               operation attribute supplied.
            server-error-busy: The Printer is too busy to accept this
               operation.  The Printer SHOULD return the "notify-get-
               interval" operation attribute in the Operation Attributes
               of the response, then the Notification Recipient SHOULD
               wait for the number of seconds specified by the "notify-
               get-interval" operation attribute before performing this
               operation again. If the "notify-get-interval" Operation
               Attribute is not present, the Notification Recipient
               SHOULD use the normal network back-off algorithms for
               determining when to perform this operation again.
            redirection-other-site: The Printer does not handle this
               operation and requests the Notification Recipient to
               perform the operation again with the uri specified by the
               "redirect-uri" Operation Attribute in the response.  See
               section 10.2.

      Natural Language and Character Set:
         The "attributes-charset" and "attributes-natural-language"
         attributes as described in [RFC2911] section 3.1.4.2.

         The Printer MUST use the values of "notify-charset" and
         "notify-natural-language", respectively, from one Subscription
         Object associated with the Event Notifications in this
         response.

         Normally, there is only one matched Subscription Object, or the
         value of the "notify-charset" and "notify-natural-language"
         attributes is the same in all Subscription Objects. If not, the
         Printer MUST pick one Subscription Object from which to obtain
         the value of these attributes. The algorithm for picking the
         Subscription Object is implementation dependent. The choice of
         natural language is not critical because 'text' and 'name'
         values can override the "attributes-natural-language" operation
         attribute. The Printer's choice of charset is critical because

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         a bad choice may leave it unable to send some 'text' and 'name'
         values accurately.


      5.2.1 "notify-get-interval" (integer(0:MAX))

         The value of this operation attribute is the number of seconds
         that the Notification Recipient SHOULD wait before trying the
         Get-Notifications operation again.  The Printer MUST return
         this operation attribute if: (1) it is too busy to return
         events, (2) the Notification Recipient client did not request
         Event Wait Mode, or (3) the Printer is terminating Event Wait
         Mode.  The client MUST accept this attribute and SHOULD re-
         issue the Get-Notifications operation (with or without "notify-
         wait" = 'true') the indicated number of seconds in the future
         in order to get more Event Notifications  This value is
         intended to help the client be a good network citizen.

         The value of this attribute MUST be at least as large as the
         value of the Printer's "ippget-event-life" Printer Description
         attribute (see section 8.1).  The Printer MAY return a value
         that is larger than the value of the "ippget-event-life"
         Printer Description attribute provided that the Printer
         increases the Event Life for this Subscription object, so that
         Notification Recipients taking account of the larger value and
         polling with a longer interval will not miss events.  Note;
         implementing such an algorithm requires some hidden attributes
         in the Subscription object that are IMPLEMENTATION DEPENDENT.

         If the Printer wants to remain in Event Wait Mode, then the
         Printer MUST NOT return this attribute in the response.

         Here is a complete table of combinations of "notify-wait",
         "status-code", "notify-get-interval", and Event Notification
         Attributes Groups for Get-Notification initial (Wait and No
         Wait) Responses and subsequent Event Wait Mode Responses (which
         may be staying in Event Wait Mode or may be requesting the
         Notification Recipient to leave Event Wait Mode):











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   Table 2 - Combinations of "notify-wait", "status-code", and "notify-
                               get-interval"


         client sends:  Printer                         Event
                        returns:        returns:        Notification
         "notify-wait"  "status-code"   "notify-get-    Attribute
                                        interval"       Groups


         1.             'successful-    MUST return N   maybe
         'false'/omitte ok'
         d

         2.             'not-found'     MUST NOT        MUST NOT
         'false'/omitte
         d

         3.             'busy'          MUST return N   MUST NOT
         'false'/omitte
         d

         4.             'events-        MUST NOT        'job-
         'false'/omitte complete'                       completed'
         d



         5. 'true'      'successful-    MUST NOT        MUST
                        ok'

         6. 'true'      'successful-    MUST return N   maybe
                        ok'

         7. 'true'      'not-found'     MUST NOT        MUST NOT

         8. 'true'      'busy'          MUST return N   MUST NOT

         9. 'true'      'events-        MUST NOT        'job-
                        complete'                       completed' or
                                                        maybe other


         Explanation:

         1-4:  client does not request Event Wait Mode
         5-9:  client requests Event Wait Mode


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         2,7:  Subscription object not found, or was canceled earlier;
         client should NOT try again.
         3,8:  server busy, tells client to try later; client should try
         again in N seconds.
         4:  client polled after job completed, but before Event Life
         expired, and got the 'job-completed' event, so the client
         shouldn't bother trying again; client should NOT try again
         later.
         5:  Printer returns one or more Event Notifications and is OK
         to stay in Event Wait Mode; the client waits for more Event
         Notifications to be returned.
         6:  Printer wants to leave Event Wait mode.  Can happen on the
         first response (with or without Event Notifications) or happen
         on a subsequent response with or without Event Notifications;
         the client SHOULD try again in N seconds.
         9:  Printer either (1) returns 'job-completed' event or (2) the
         Subscription Object was canceled by either a Cancel-Job or a
         Per-Printer Subscription expired without being renewed.  For
         case (1), at least one Event Notification MUST be returned,
         while for case (2), it is unlikely that any Event Notifications
         are returned; the client should NOT try again.




      5.2.2 "printer-up-time" (integer(1:MAX)):

         The value of this attribute is the Printer's "printer-up-time"
         attribute at the time the Printer sends this response.  The
         Printer MUST return this attribute.  Because each Event
         Notification also contains the value of this attribute when the
         event occurred, the value of this attribute lets a Notification
         Recipient know when each Event Notification occurred relative
         to the time of this response.


      5.2.3 "redirect-uri" (uri):

         The value of this attribute is the uri that the Notification
         Recipient MUST use for a subsequent Get-Notifications
         operation.  The Printer MAY support this attribute.  This
         attribute MUST be returned in the Operation Attributes Group if
         and only if the Printer returns the 'redirection-other-site'
         status code (see section 10.2).

   Group 2: Unsupported Attributes



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         See [RFC2911] section 3.1.7 for details on returning
         Unsupported Attributes.


   Group 3 through N: Event Notification Attributes

         The Printer responds with one Event Notification Attributes
         Group per matched Event Notification.  The entire response is
         considered a single Compound Event Notification (see [ipp-
         ntfy]).  The matched Event Notifications are all un-expired
         Event Notification associated with the matched Subscription
         Objects and MUST follow the "Event Notification Ordering"
         requirements for Event Notifications within a Compound Event
         Notification specified in [ipp-ntfy] section 9.  In other
         words, the Printer MUST order these Event Notification groups
         in ascending time stamp (and sequence number) order for a
         Subscription object.  If Event Notifications for multiple
         Subscription objects are being returned, the Notification
         Events for the next Subscription object follow in ascending
         time stamp order, etc.

         Each Event Notification Group MUST contain all of attributes
         specified in section 9.1 ("Content of Machine Consumable Event
         Notifications") of [ipp-ntfy] with exceptions denoted by
         asterisks in the tables below.

         The tables below are copies of the tables in section 9.1
         ("Content of Machine Consumable Event Notifications") of [ipp-
         ntfy] except that each cell in the "Sends" column is a  "MUST".

         If more than one Event Notification is being returned and the
         status of each is not the same, then the Printer MUST return a
         "notify-status-code" attribute in each Event Notification
         Attributes group to indicate the differing status values.

         For an Event Notification for all Events, the Printer includes
         the attributes shown in Table 3.












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             Table 3 - 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(1:MAX)) *         MUST      Printer

     printer-current-time (dateTime)            MUST **   Printer

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

     notify-charset (charset)                   MUST      Subscription

     notify-natural-language (naturalLanguage)  MUST      Subscription

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

     notify-text (text)                         MUST      Event
                                                          Notification

     attributes from the "notify-attributes"    MUST **** Printer
     attribute

     attributes from the "notify-attributes"    MUST **** Job
     attribute

     attributes from the "notify-attributes"    MUST **** Subscription
     attribute


         * As specified in [ipp-ntfy] section 9, the value of the
         "printer-up-time" attribute sent in each Event Notification
         MUST be the time at which the Event occurred, not the time at
         which the Event Notification was sent.

         ** The Printer MUST send the "printer-current-time" attribute
         if and only if it supports the "printer-current-time" attribute
         on the Printer object.


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         *** If the associated Subscription Object does not contain a
         "notify-user-data" attribute, the Printer MUST send an octet-
         string of length 0.

         **** If the "notify-attributes" attribute is present on the
         Subscription Object, the Printer MUST send all attributes
         specified by the "notify-attributes" attribute.  Note: if the
         Printer doesn't support the "notify-attributes" attribute, it
         is not present on the associated Subscription Object.

         For Event Notifications for Job Events, the Printer includes
         the additional attributes shown in Table 4.

      Table 4 - 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 Events shown in Table 5.
















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      Table 5 - 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'



         For Event Notification for Printer Events, the Printer includes
         the additional attributes shown in Table 6.

      Table 6 - 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 keyword)   MUST    Printer

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


6 Additional Information about Subscription Template Attributes

   The 'ippget' Delivery Method does not define any addition
   Subscription Template attributes.  The 'ippget' Delivery Method has
   the same conformance requirements for Subscription Template
   attributes as defined in [ipp-ntfy].  This section defines additional
   information about Subscription Template attributes defined in [ipp-
   ntfy].


6.1 notify-recipient-uri (uri)

   This section describes the syntax of the value of this attribute for
   the 'ippget' Delivery Method.  The syntax for values of this


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   attribute for other Delivery Method is defined in other Delivery
   Method Documents.

   In order to support the 'ippget' Delivery Method and Protocol, the
   Printer MUST support the following syntax:

     The 'ippget://' URI scheme.  The remainder of the URI indicates
     something unique about the Notification Recipient, such as its host
     name or host address (and optional path).  However, the remainder
     of the URI is not used by the Printer in any way.  Its value MAY be
     useful to Notification Recipients who are not the Subscription
     Creation clients.  See section 11 for a complete definition of the
     syntax of the IPPGET URL.


7 Subscription Description Attributes

   The 'ippget' Delivery Method has the same conformance requirements
   for Subscription Description attributes as defined in [ipp-ntfy].
   The 'ippget' Delivery Method does not define any addition
   Subscription Description attributes.


8 Additional Printer Description Attributes

   This section defines additional Printer Description attributes for
   use with the 'ippget' Delivery Method.


8.1 ippget-event-life (integer(15:MAX))

   This Printer Description attribute specifies the Event Life value
   that the Printer assigns to each Event, i.e., the number of seconds
   after an Event occurs during which a Printer will return that Event
   in an Event Notification in a Get-Notifications response.  After the
   Event Life expires for the Event, the Printer MAY no longer return an
   Event Notification for that Event in a Get-Notifications response.

   The Printer MUST support this attribute if it supports the 'ippget'
   Delivery Method.  The value MUST be 15 or more (at least 15 seconds)
   and 60 (seconds) is the RECOMMENDED value to align with the PWG Job
   Monitoring MIB [RFC2707] jmGeneralJobPersistence and
   jmGeneralAttributePersistence objects.

   For example, assume the following:




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     1.a client performs a Job Creation operation that creates a
       Subscription Object associated with the 'ippget' Delivery
       Method, AND

     2.an Event associated with the new Job occurs immediately after
       the Subscription Object is created, AND

     3.the same client or some other client performs a Get-
       Notifications operation such that the client is connected N
       seconds after the Job Creation operation.

   Then, if N is less than the value of this attribute, the client(s)
   performing the Get-Notifications operations can expect not to miss
   any Event-Notifications, barring some unforeseen lack of memory space
   in the Printer.  Note:  The client MUST initiate the Get-
   Notifications a time that is sufficiently less that N seconds to
   account for network latency so that it is connected to the Printer
   before N seconds elapses.

   If a Printer supports the 'ippget' Delivery Method, it MUST keep
   'completed', 'canceled', or 'aborted' Job objects in the Job
   Retention and/or Job History phases for at least as long as this
   attribute's value.  The Printer MAY retain jobs longer that this
   value.  See [RFC2911] section 4.3.7.1 and the discussion in [ipp-
   ntfy] 'job-completed' event) that explains that a Notification
   Recipients can query the Job after receiving a 'job-completed' Event
   Notification in order to find out other information about the job
   that is 'completed', 'aborted', or 'canceled'.  However, this
   attribute has no effect on the Cancel-Subscription operation which
   deletes the Subscription object immediately, whether or not it
   contain the 'ippget' scheme.  Immediately thereafter, subsequent Get-
   Notifications Responses MUST NOT contain Event Notifications
   associated with the canceled Subscription object.


9 New Values for Existing Printer Description Attributes

   This section defines additional values for existing Printer
   Description attributes defined in [ipp-ntfy].


9.1 notify-schemes-supported (1setOf uriScheme)

   The following value for the "notify-schemes-supported" attribute is
   added in order to support the new Delivery Method defined in this
   document:



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      'ippget'  - The IPP Notification Delivery Method defined in this
        document.

9.2 operations-supported (1setOf type2 enum)

   Table 7 lists the "operation-id" value defined in order to support
   the new Get-Notifications operation defined in this document.


                    Table 7 - Operation-id assignments


     Value        Operation Name


     0x001C       Get-Notifications




10 New Status Codes

   The following status codes are defined as extensions for this
   Delivery Method and are returned as the status code of the Get-
   Notifications operation.


10.1 successful-ok-events-complete (0x0007)

   The Printer MUST return the 'successful-ok-events-complete' status
   code to indicate when this Get-Notifications response is the last
   response for a Subscription object, whether or not there are Event
   Notifications being returned.  This condition occurs for Event Wait
   Mode with Notification Recipients waiting for responses when the
   Subscription Object is: (1) canceled with a Cancel-Subscription
   operation, (2) deleted when the Per-Printer Subscription lease time
   expires, or (3) when the 'job-completed' event occurs for a Per-Job
   Subscription.  This condition also occurs for a Get-Notifications
   request that a Notification Recipient makes after the job completes,
   but before the Event Life expires.


10.2 redirection-other-site (0x0300)

   This status code means that the Printer doesn't perform that Get-
   Notifications operation and that the "redirect-uri" operation
   attribute in the response contains the uri that the Notification
   Recipient MUST use for performing the Get-Notifications operation.

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   If the client issues subsequent Get-Notifications operations, it MUST
   use the value of the "redirect-uri" operation attribute returned by
   the Printer as the target of the operation.


11 The IPPGET URL Scheme

   This section defines the 'ippget' URL and the conformance
   requirements for using it.


11.1 The IPPGET URL Scheme Applicability and Intended Usage

   This section is intended for use in registering the 'ippget' URL
   scheme with IANA and fully conforms to the requirements in [RFC2717].
   This document defines the 'ippget'" URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
   scheme for specifying a unique identifier for an IPP Client which
   implements the IPP Get-Notifications operation specified in this
   document (see section 5).

   ISSUE 02:  How unique do we need now that the Printer doesn't use
   anything but the scheme?

   The intended usage of the 'ippget' URL scheme is COMMON.


11.2 The IPPGET URL Scheme Associated Port

   None.

   An 'ippget' URL behaves as a unique identifier for IPP Clients and is
   NOT used to initiate any over-the-wire protocol associations.

   See:  IANA Port Numbers Registry [IANA-PORTREG].


11.3 The IPPGET URL Scheme Associated MIME Type

   All IPP Get-Notifications operations (requests and responses) MUST be
   conveyed in an 'application/ipp' MIME media type as registered in
   [IANA-MT].  An 'ippget' URL MUST uniquely identify an IPP Client that
   support this 'application/ipp' MIME media type.

   See:  IANA MIME Media Types Registry [IANA-MT].





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11.4 The IPPGET URL Scheme Character Encoding

   The 'ippget' URL scheme defined in this document is based on the ABNF
   for the URI Generic Syntax [RFC2396] and further updated by [RFC2732]
   and [RFC2373] (for IPv6 addresses in URLs).  The 'ippget' URL scheme
   is case-insensitive in the scheme and 'authority' part as in
   [RFC2396]; however, the 'abs_path' part is case-sensitive, as in
   [RFC2396].  Code points outside [US-ASCII] MUST be hex escaped by the
   mechanism specified in [RFC2396].


11.5 The IPPGET URL Scheme Syntax in ABNF

   This document is intended for use in registering the 'ippget' URL
   scheme with IANA and fully conforms to the requirements in [RFC2717].
   This document defines the 'ippget' URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
   scheme for specifying a unique identifier for an IPP Client which
   implements IPP 'Get-Notifications' operation specified in this
   document.

   The intended usage of the 'ippget' URL scheme is COMMON.

   The value of an 'ippget' URI MUST NOT exceed 255 octets (see section
   8.1), since the URI is for identification rather than for identifying
   the location of a network resource.  An IPP Printer MUST return the
   'client-error-request-value-too-long' status code (see section
   13.1.4.10 in [RFC2911]) when a URI received in a request is too long.

   An 'ippget' URL MUST be represented in absolute form.  Absolute URLs
   always begin with a scheme name followed by a colon.  For definitive
   information on URL syntax and semantics, see "Uniform Resource
   Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics" [RFC2396].  This
   specification adopts the definitions of "authority", "abs_path",
   "query", "reg_name", "server", "userinfo", and "hostport" from
   [RFC2396], as updated by [RFC2732] and [RFC2373] (for IPv6 addresses
   in URLs).

   The 'ippget' URL scheme syntax in ABNF is as follows:

      ippget_URL = "ippget:" "//" authority [ abs_path [ "?" query ]]
      authority  = server | reg_name
      reg_name   = 1*( unreserved | escaped | "$" | "," |
                       ";" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" )
      server     = [ [ userinfo "@" ] hostport ]
      userinfo   = *( unreserved | escaped |
                      ";" | ":" | "&" | "=" | "+" | "$" | "," )
      hostport   = host [ ":" port ]
      abs_path   = "/"  path_segments

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   If the port is empty or not given, then no port is assumed.  The
   semantics are that the 'ippget' URL is a unique identifier for an IPP
   Client that will retrieve IPP event notifications via the IPP Get-
   Notifications operation.

   Note:  The use of IP addresses in URLs SHOULD be avoided whenever
   possible (see [RFC1900]).


11.5.1 IPPGET URL Examples

   The following are examples of valid 'ippget' URLs for IPP Clients
   (using DNS host names):

          ippget://abc.com
          ippget://abc.com/listener
          ippget://bob@abc.com
          ippget://bob@abc.com/listener/1232

   Note:  The use of IP addresses in URLs SHOULD be avoided whenever
   possible (see [RFC1900]).

   The IPP Client that creates the Subscription object and the
   Notification Recipient have to agree on a unique IPPGET URL value in
   order for the Get-Notifications operations to retrieve the proper
   Event Notifications.  Therefore, the choice of 'userinfo@hostport'
   versus the simpler 'hostport' production in an 'ippget' URL may be
   influenced by the intended usage.

   If a given IPP Client creates an IPP Subscription object for event
   notifications intended for retrieval by the same IPP Client, then the
   simple 'hostport' production may be most appropriate.  In this case,
   the IPP Client and the Notification Recipient both know the
   'hostport' of the client.

   On the other hand, if a given IPP Client creates an IPP Subscription
   object for event notifications intended for retrieval by a different
   IPP Client, then the 'userinfo@hostport' production (using, for
   example, the right-hand side of a 'mailto:' URL, see [RFC2368]) may
   be most appropriate.  For this case, a mail address serves as the
   prior agreement on the IPPGET URL value between the IPP Client and
   the Notification Recipient.






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11.5.2 IPPGET URL Comparisons

   When comparing two 'ippget' URLs to decide if they match or not, an
   IPP Client or IPP Printer MUST use the same rules as those defined
   for HTTP URI comparisons in [RFC2616].


12 Encoding and Transport

   This section defines the encoding and transport considerations for
   this Delivery Method based on [RFC2910].

   The encoding of a Get-Notifications Response is modeled the Get-Jobs
   Response (see [RFC2911]).  In a Get-Notifications Response, each
   Event Notification Attributes Group MUST start with an 'event-
   notification-attributes-tag' (see the section "Encodings of
   Additional Attribute Tags" in [ipp-ntfy]), and end with an 'end-of-
   attributes-tag'.  In addition, for Event Wait Mode the multi-
   part/related is used to separate each multiple response (in time) to
   a single Get-Notifications Request.

   The Printer returns Get-Notification Response as follows:

     1. If the Notification Recipient client did not request Event Wait
        Mode ("notify-wait" = 'false' or omitted), the Printer ends the
        response with an 'end-of-attributes-tag' (see [RFC2911] Get-Jobs
        encoding) as with any operation response.

     2. If the Notification Recipient client requests Event Wait Mode
        ("notify-wait" = 'true') and the Printer wishes to honor the
        request, the Printer MUST return the response as an
        application/ipp part inside a multi-part/related MIME media
        type.  When one or more additional Events occur, the Printer
        returns each as an additional Event Notification Group using a
        separate application/ipp part under the multi-part/related type.

     3. If the client requested Event Wait Mode ("notify-wait" =
        'true'), but the Printer does not wish to honor the request in
        the initial response but wants the client explicitly poll for
        Event Notifications, the Printer MUST return the "notify-get-
        interval" operation attribute (see section 5.2.1).  The Printer
        returns the response as an application/ipp part which MAY be
        inside an multi-part/related type.  The client MUST accept this
        response and re-issue the Get-Notifications request in the
        future indicated by the value of the "notify-get-interval"
        attribute value..



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     4. If the client requested Event Wait Mode ("notify-wait" =
        'true'), and the Printer initially honored the request, but
        later wishes to leave Event Wait Mode,  the Printer MUST return
        the "notify-get-interval" operation attribute (see section
        5.2.1).  The Printer returns the response as an application/ipp
        part which MUST be inside an multi-part/related type.

   Note: All of the above is without either the Printer or the
   Notification Recipient closing the connection.  In fact, the
   connection SHOULD remain open for any subsequent IPP operations.
   However, either the Notification Recipient or the Printer can
   abnormally terminate by closing the connection.  But, if the Printer
   closes the connection too soon after returning the response, the
   client may not receive the response.

   The Printer MAY chunk the responses, but this has no significance to
   the IPP semantics.

   Note:  While HTTP/1.1 allows a proxy to collect chunked responses
   over a period of time and return them back as a single un-chunked
   response (with a Content Length instead).  However, in practice no
   proxy wants to have an infinite buffer.  Also no proxy want to hold
   up responses, since user would be furious.

   This notification delivery method uses the IPP transport and encoding
   [RFC2910] for the Get-Notifications operation with the following
   extension allocated in [ipp-ntfy]:


          Table 8 - The "event-notification-attributes-tag" value


   Tag Value (Hex)    Meaning


   0x07               "event-notification-attributes-tag"



13 Conformance Requirements

   The 'ippget' Delivery Method is RECOMMEND for Printers to support.


13.1 Conformance for IPP Printers

   IPP Printers that conform to this specification:


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     1. MUST meet the conformance requirements defined in [ipp-ntfy];

     2. MUST support the Get-Notifications operation defined in section
        5, including Event Wait Mode;

     3. MUST support the Subscription Template object attributes as
        defined in section 6;

     4. MUST support the Subscription Description object attributes as
        defined in section 7;

     5. MUST support the "ippget-event-life" Printer Description
        attribute defined in section 8.1, including retaining jobs in
        the Job Retention and/or Job History phases for at least as long
        as the value specified by the Printer's "ippget-event-life";

     6. MUST support the additional values for IPP/1.1 Printer
        Description attributes defined in section 9;

     7. MUST support the 'successful-ok-events-complete' status code as
        described in section 10.1;

     8. MUST support the "redirection-other-site" status code defined
        10.2, if it redirects Get-Notifications operations;

     9. MUST listen for the IPP Get-Notifications operation requests on
        IANA-assigned well-known port 631, unless explicitly configured
        by system administrators or site policies;

     10.  SHOULD NOT listen for IPP Get-Notifications operation requests
        on any other port, unless explicitly configured by system
        administrators or site policies.


13.2 Conformance for IPP Clients

   IPP Clients that conform to this specification:

     1.MUST create unambiguously unique 'ippget' URLs in all cases that
       conform to the ABNF specified in section 11.5 of this document;

     2.;MUST send IPP Get-Notifications operation requests via the port
       specified in the associated 'ipp' URL (if present) or otherwise
       via IANA assigned well-known port 631;

     3.MUST convert the associated 'ipp' URLs for use in IPP Get-
       Notifications operation to their corresponding 'http' URL forms


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       for use in the HTTP layer according to the rules in section 5
       "IPP URL Scheme" in [RFC2910].

   Note:  The use of ambiguous 'ippget' URLs is NOT an optional feature
   for IPP Clients; it is a non-conformant implementation error.


14 IANA Considerations

   IANA shall register the 'ippget' URL scheme as defined in section 11
   according to the procedures of [RFC2717].

   The rest of this section contains the exact information for IANA to
   add to the IPP Registries according to the procedures defined in RFC
   2911 [RFC2911] section 6.

     Note to RFC Editors:  Replace RFC NNNN below with the RFC number
     for this document, so that it accurately reflects the content of
     the information for the IANA Registry.


14.1 Additional attribute value registrations for existing attributes

   This section lists additional attribute value registrations for use
   with existing attributes defined in other documents.


14.1.1 Additional values for the "notify-schemes-supported" Printer
     attribute

   The following table lists the uriScheme value defined in this
   document as an additional uriScheme value for use with the "notify-
   schemes-supported"  Printer attribute defined in [ipp-ntfy].   This
   is to be registered according to the procedures in RFC 2911 [RFC2911]
   section 6.1.

   uriScheme Attribute Values:                    Ref.      Section:
   ippget                                         RFC NNNN    9.1











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   The resulting URI scheme attribute value registrations will be
                       published in the
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipp/attribute-
                       values/notify-schemes-supported/
   area.



14.1.2 Additional values for the "operations-supported" Printer
     attribute

   The following table lists the enum attribute value defined in this
   document as an additional type2 enum value for use with the
   "operations-supported" Printer attribute defined in [RFC2911]. This
   is to be registered according to the procedures in RFC 2911 [RFC2911]
   section 6.1.

   type2 enum Attribute Values:         Value     Ref.      Section:
   Get-Notifications                    0x001C    RFC NNNN    9.2


   The resulting enum attribute value registration will be published in
                       the
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipp/attribute-
                       values/operations-supported/
   area.



14.2 Operation Registrations

   The following table lists the operation defined in this document.
   This is to be registered according to the procedures in RFC 2911
   [RFC2911] section 6.4.

   Operations:                                    Ref.      Section:
   Get-Notifications operation                    RFC NNNN     5

   The resulting operation registration will be published in the
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipp/operations/
   area.








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14.3 Attribute Registrations

   The following table lists the attribute defined in this document.
   This is to be registered according to the procedures in RFC 2911
   [RFC2911] section 6.2.

   Printer Description attributes:                Ref.      Section:
   ippget-event-life (integer(15:MAX))            RFC NNNN     8.1

   The resulting attribute registration will be published in the
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipp/attributes/
   area.


14.4 Status code Registrations

   The following table lists the status code defined in this document.
   This is to be registered according to the procedures in RFC 2911
   [RFC2911] section 6.6.

   Status codes:                                  Ref.      Section:
   successful-ok-events-complete (0x0007)         RFC NNNN    10.1
   redirection-other-site (0x0300)                RFC NNNN    10.2

   The resulting status code registration will be published in the
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipp/status-codes/
   area.


15 Internationalization Considerations

   The IPP Printer MUST localize the "notify-text" attribute as
   specified in section 14 of [ipp-ntfy].

   In addition, when the client receives the Get-Notifications response,
   it is expected to localize the attributes that have the 'keyword'
   attribute syntax according to the charset and natural language
   requested in the Get-Notifications request.


16 Security Considerations

   The IPP Model and Semantics document [RFC2911] discusses high-level
   security requirements (Client Authentication, Server Authentication
   and Operation Privacy).  Client Authentication is the mechanism by
   which the client proves its identity to the server in a secure
   manner.  Server Authentication is the mechanism by which the server
   proves its identity to the client in a secure manner.  Operation

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   Privacy is defined as a mechanism for protecting operations from
   eavesdropping.

   Unlike other Event Notification delivery methods in which the IPP
   Printer initiates the Event Notification, with the method defined in
   this document, the Notification Recipient is the client who initiates
   the Get-Notifications operation.  Therefore, there is no chance of
   "spam" notifications with this method.  Furthermore, such a client
   can close down the HTTP channel at any time, and so can avoid future
   unwanted Event Notifications at any time.

   Because the Get-Notifications operation is sent in the same direction
   as Job Creation operations, this Event Notification Delivery Method
   poses no additional firewall or port assignment issues.


17 References

   [IANA-MT]
     IANA Registry of Media Types:  ftp://ftp.iana.orgisi.edu/in-
     notes/iana/assignments/media-types/

   [IANA-PORTREG]
     IANA Port Numbers Registry.  ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-
     notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers

   [ipp-iig]
     Hastings, T., Manros, C., Kugler, K, Holst H., Zehler, P.,
     "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1:  draft-ietf-ipp-implementers-
     guide-v11-03.txt, work in progress, July 17, 2001

   [ipp-ntfy]
     R. Herriot, Hastings, T., Isaacson, S., Martin, J., deBry, R.,
     Shepherd, M., Bergman, R., "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: IPP
     Event Notifications and Subscriptions", <draft-ietf-ipp-not-spec-
     07.txt>, August 20, 2001.

   [RFC1900]
     B. Carpenter, Y. Rekhter.  Renumbering Needs Work, RFC 1900,
     February 1996.

   [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

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   [RFC2368]
     P. Hoffman, L. Masinter, J. Zawinski.  The "mailto" URL Scheme, RFC
     2368, July 1998.

   [RFC2373]
     R. Hinden, S. Deering.  IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture, RFC
     2373, July 1998.

   [RFC2396]
     Berners-Lee, T. et al.  Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic
     Syntax, RFC 2396, August 1998

   [RFC2565]
     Herriot, R., Butler, S., Moore, P., and R. Turner, "Internet
     Printing Protocol/1.0: Encoding and Transport", RFC 2565, April
     1999.

   [RFC2566]
     R. deBry, T. Hastings, R. Herriot, S. Isaacson, and P. Powell,
     "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.

   [RFC2616]
     R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P.
     Leach, T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1",
     RFC 2616, June 1999.

   [RFC2707]
     Bergman, R., Hastings, T., Isaacson, S., and H. Lewis, "Job
     Monitoring MIB - V1.0", November 1999.

   [RFC2717]
     R. Petke and I. King, "Registration Procedures for URL Scheme
     Names", RFC 2717, November 1999.



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   [RFC2732]
     R. Hinden, B. Carpenter, L. Masinter.  Format for Literal IPv6
     Addresses in URL's, RFC 2732, December 1999.

   [RFC2910]
     Herriot, R., Butler, S., Moore, P., Tuner, R., "Internet Printing
     Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport", RFC 2910, September 2000.

   [RFC2911]
     R. deBry, T. Hastings, R. Herriot, S. Isaacson, P. Powell,
     "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics", RFC 2911,
     September 2000.


18 Authors' Addresses


   Robert Herriot
   Xerox Corp.
   3400 Hill View Ave, Building 1
   Palo Alto, CA 94304

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


   Carl Kugler
   IBM
   P.O. Box 1900
   Boulder, CO 80301-9191

   Phone:
   Fax:
   e-mail: kugler@us.ibm.com

   Harry Lewis
   IBM
   P.O. Box 1900
   Boulder, CO 80301-9191

   Phone: 303-924-5337
   FAX:
   e-mail:  harryl@us.ibm.com





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   IPP Web Page:  http://www.pwg.org/ipp/
   IPP Mailing List:  ipp@pwg.org

   To subscribe to the ipp mailing list, send the following email:
     1) send it to majordomo@pwg.org
     2) leave the subject line blank
     3) put the following two lines in the message body:
          subscribe ipp
          end

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


19 Description of Base IPP documents

   The base 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 [RFC2911]
     Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport [RFC2910]
     Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide [ipp-iig]
     Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols [RFC2569]
     Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): IPP Event Notifications and
       Subscriptions [ipp-ntfy]

   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.  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 specification documents, and gives background and rationale
   for the IETF working group's major decisions.

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   The "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics" document
   describes a simplified model with abstract objects, their attributes,
   and their operations that are independent of encoding and transport.
   It introduces a Printer 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 [RFC2616].  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 the 'ippget' scheme for
   identifying IPP printers and jobs.

   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/1.1 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.

   The "IPP Event Notifications and Subscriptions" document defines an
   extension to IPP/1.0 [RFC2566, RFC2565] and IPP/1.1 [RFC2911,
   RFC2910].  This extension allows a client to subscribe to printing
   related Events and defines the semantics for delivering asynchronous
   Event Notifications to the specified Notification Recipient via a
   specified Delivery Method (i.e., protocols) defined in (separate)
   Delivery Method documents.


20 Full Copyright Statement

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.

   This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
   others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
   or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
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   kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
   included on all such copies and derivative works.  However, this
   document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing

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   the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
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   The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
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