Network Working Group R. Herriot

Network Working Group R. Herriot
Request for Comments: 3996 Global Workflow Solutions
Updates: 2911 T. Hastings
Category: Standards Track Xerox Corp.
H. Lewis
IBM Corp.
March 2005

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

Status of This Memo

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

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005).

Abstract

This document describes an extension to the Internet Printing
Protocol1.1: Model and Semantics (RFC 2911, RFC 2910). This document
specifies the 'ippget' Pull Delivery Method for use with the
"Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Event Notifications and
Subscriptions" specification (RFC 3995). This IPPGET Delivery Method
is REQUIRED for all clients and Printers that support RFC 3995. The
Notification Recipient, acting as a client, fetches (pulls) Event
Notifications by using the Get-Notifications operation defined in
this document.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Conformance Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Other Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Model and Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Get-Notifications Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1. Get-Notifications Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1.1. notify-subscription-ids (1setOf integer(1:MAX)) 8
5.1.2. notify-sequence-numbers (1setOf integer(1:MAX)) 9

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5.1.3. notify-wait (boolean) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2. Get-Notifications Response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2.1. notify-get-interval (integer(0:MAX)). . . . . . 13
5.2.2. printer-up-time (integer(1:MAX)). . . . . . . . 14
6. Additional Information about Subscription Template Attributes 17
6.1. notify-pull-method (type2 keyword). . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. Subscription Description Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8. Additional Printer Description Attributes . . . . . . . . . . 18
8.1. ippget-event-life (integer(15:MAX)) . . . . . . . . . . 18
9. New Values for Existing Printer Description Attributes. . . . 19
9.1. notify-pull-method-supported (1setOf type2 keyword) . . 19
9.2. operations-supported (1setOf type2 enum). . . . . . . . 19
10. New Status Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10.1. successful-ok-events-complete (0x0007) . . . . . . . . 20
11. Encoding and Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
12. Conformance Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
12.1. Conformance for IPP Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
12.2. Conformance for IPP Clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
13. Normative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
14. Informative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
15. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
15.1. Attribute Registrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
15.2. Delivery Method and Additional Keyword Attribute Value
registrations for Existing Attributes. . . . . . . . . 24
15.3. Additional Enum Attribute Values . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15.4. Operation Registrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15.5. Status Code Registrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
16. Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
17. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
17.1. Notification Recipient Client Access Rights. . . . . . 26
17.2. Printer Security Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
17.3. Notification Recipient Security Threats. . . . . . . . 27
17.4. Security Requirements for Printers . . . . . . . . . . 27
17.5. Security Requirements for clients. . . . . . . . . . . 28
18. Description of Base IPP Documents (Informative) . . . . . . . 28
19. Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Table of Tables

Table 1. Information about the Delivery Method. . . . . . . . . . 5
Table 2. Combinations of "notify-wait", "status-code", and
"notify-get-interval". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Table 3. Attributes in Event Notification Content . . . . . . . . 15
Table 4. Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for
Job Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Table 5. Combinations of Events and Subscribed Events for "job-
impressions-completed" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Table 6. Additional Attributes in Event Notification Content for
Printer Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Table 7. Operation-id Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Table 8. The "event-notification-attributes-tag" Value. . . . . . 21

1. Introduction

This document describes an extension to the Internet Printing
Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics [RFC 2911], [RFC 2910]. This
document specifies the 'ippget' Pull Delivery Method for use with the
"Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Event Notifications and
Subscriptions" specification [RFC3995]. This IPPGET Delivery Method
is REQUIRED for all clients and Printers that support [RFC3995]. The
Notification Recipient, acting as a client, fetches (pulls) Event
Notifications by using the Get-Notifications operation defined in
this document. For a description of the base IPP documents, see
section 21 of this document. For a description of the IPP Event
Notification Model, see [RFC3995].

With this Pull Delivery Method, 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 by 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 MAY continue to return
Event Notifications to the Notification Recipient as asynchronous
Get-Notification 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" (boolean)
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" (integer) operation attribute in a Get-Notifications
response that 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:

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2.1. Conformance Terminology

Capitalized terms such as MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHOULD, SHOULD
NOT, MAY, NEED NOT, and OPTIONAL have special meaning relating to
conformance as defined in [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 it is explicitly stated otherwise.

2.2. Other terminology

This document uses the same terminology as [RFC2911], including
"client", "Printer", "Job", "attribute", "attribute value",
"keyword", "operation", "request", "response", and "support", with
the same meanings. This document also uses terminology defined in
[RFC3995], such as "Subscription (object)", "Notification Recipient",
"Event", "Event Notification", "Compound Event Notification", "Event
Life", and "Event Notification Attribute Group", with the same
meanings. In addition, this document defines the following terms for
use in this document:

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 while the Printer sends subsequent
Get-Notification operation responses to the Notification
Recipient in the form of Event Notifications as they occur.

3. Model and Operation

In a Subscription Creation Operation, when the "notify-pull-method"
attribute is present and has the "ippget" keyword value, the client
is requesting that the Printer use the "ippget" Pull Delivery Method
for the Event Notifications associated with the new Subscription
Object.

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

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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.

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) a privileged client that
wants to get all job or printer Events from a Per-Printer
Subscription object.

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' keyword method
Push Delivery Method, or the keyword name
method name for the Pull Delivery
Method?

2. Is the Delivery Method REQUIRED, REQUIRED
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?

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

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

7. What section in this document answers Section 5.
the following questions? For a Machine
Consumable Event Notification, what is
the representation and encoding of
values defined in section 9.1 of
[RFC3995], and what are the
conformance requirements thereof? For
a Human Consumable Event Notification,
what is the representation and
encoding of pieces of information
defined in section 9.2 of
[RFC3995], 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; underlying HTTP
e.g., how it is handled in transport and in the
firewalls? same direction, so no
new firewall
considerations.

10. What are the content length None.
restrictions?

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

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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, 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.

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 contains the "notify-pull-
method" attribute and it has the 'ippget' keyword value, 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 client has read-access rights to
the identified Subscription Object (see Access Rights paragraph
below).

The Notification Recipient client MUST either (a) request Event Wait
Mode by supplying the "notify-wait" operation attribute with a 'true'
value or (b) suppress Event Wait Mode by omitting the "notify-wait"
operation attribute or by supplying it with a 'false' value. To
terminate Event Wait Mode subsequently, the Notification Recipient
client MUST close the connection. To terminate Event Wait Mode, the
Printer MUST either (a) return the "notify-get-interval" operation

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attribute in a Get-Notifications response (RECOMMENDED behavior) or
(b) close the connection. The "notify-get-interval" operation
attributes tell the Notification Recipient how long to wait before
trying a subsequent Get-Notifications request.

Access Rights: The authenticated user (see [RFC2911], section 8.3)
performing this operation MUST be (1) the owner of each Subscription
Object identified by the "notify-subscription-ids" operation
attribute (see section 5.1.1), (2) an operator or administrator of
the Printer (see [RFC2911], sections 1 and 8.5), or (3) otherwise
authorized by the Printer's administrator-configured security policy
to request Event Notifications from the target Subscription
Object(s). Otherwise, the IPP Printer MUST reject the operation and
return: 'client-error-forbidden', 'client-error-not-authenticated',
or 'client-error-not-authorized' status code, as appropriate.
Furthermore, the Printer's security policy MAY limit the attributes
returned by the Get-Notifications operation, in a manner similar to
that of the Get-Job-Attributes operation (see [RFC2911], end of
section 3.3.4.2).

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 that 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, or if
the identified Subscription Object does not contain the "notify-

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pull-method" attribute with the 'ippget' keyword value, the Printer
MUST return the 'client-error-not-found' status code.

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

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

This attribute specifies one or more of the 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 that 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 it does 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, as '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 value of the first
Event Notification in the second Get-Notifications Response may be
less than that of the time stamp of the last Event Notification in
the first Get-Notification Response. This happens because the
Printer sends all unexpired Event Notifications with an equal or
higher sequence number according to the ordering specified in
[RFC3995], and some Event Notifications from the first Get-

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Notifications operation may not have expired by the time the second
Get-Notifications operation occurs.

5.1.3. notify-wait (boolean)

This value indicates whether 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
immediately return whatever Event Notifications it currently
holds in the requested Subscription object(s) and MUST return the
"notify-get-interval" operation attribute with the 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 immediately
return whatever Event Notifications it currently holds in the
requested Subscription object(s) and MUST continue to return
Event Notifications as they occur until all 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

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Printer MUST return the "notify-get-interval" operation
attribute. This attribute indicates that the Printer wishes to
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 by 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 11 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 are descriptions 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.

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successful-ok-events-complete: Indicates when this return
is the last return for all Subscription objects that
match the request, whether or not Event Notifications are
returned. This condition occurs for Event Wait Mode with
Notification Recipients waiting for responses when (1)
the Subscription Object is canceled with a Cancel-
Subscription operation, (2) the Subscription Object is
deleted, when the Per-Printer Subscription lease time
expires, or (3) 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
Objects whose "notify-subscription-id" attribute equals
any of the values of the "notify-subscription-ids"
operation attribute supplied, or the identified
Subscription Object does not contain the "notify-pull-
method" attribute with the 'ippget' keyword value.
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 to
determine when to perform this operation again.

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

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is critical because 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 reissue the Get-Notifications operation
(with or without "notify-wait" = 'true') at 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 that of the
Printer's "ippget-event-life" Printer Description attribute (see
section 8.1). The Printer MAY return a value that is larger than
that 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 stay in Event Wait
Mode or may request the Notification Recipient to leave Event Wait
Mode):

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

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

1. 'false'* 'successful-ok' MUST return N maybe
2. 'false'* 'not-found' MUST NOT MUST NOT
3. 'false'* 'busy' MUST return N MUST NOT

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4. 'false'* 'events- MUST NOT 'job-
complete' completed'
5. 'true' 'successful-ok' MUST NOT MUST
6. 'true' 'successful-ok' MUST return N maybe
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
* 'false' or client omits the "notify-wait" attribute.

Explanation:

1-4: Client does not request Event Wait Mode.
5-9: Client requests Event Wait Mode.
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: Either (1) the printer 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; for case (2), it is
unlikely that any Event Notifications are returned, and
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 when 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.

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Group 2: Unsupported Attributes
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
[RFC3995]). The matched Event Notifications are all un-expired
Event Notifications associated with the matched Subscription
Objects and MUST follow the "Event Notification Ordering"
requirements for Event Notifications within a Compound Event
Notification specified in [RFC3995] 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 [RFC3995], with exceptions denoted by
asterisks in the tables below.

The tables below are identical to those in section 9.1
("Content of Machine Consumable Event Notifications") of
[RFC3995], 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.

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

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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 [RFC3995] 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.

*** 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

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* 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.

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 and has the conformance requirements
for Subscription Template attributes defined in [RFC3995]. This
section defines additional information about Subscription Template
attributes defined in [RFC3995].

6.1. notify-pull-method (type2 keyword)

This Subscription Template attribute identifies the Pull Delivery
Method to be used for the Subscription Object (see [RFC3995]). To
support the 'ippget' Pull Delivery Method defined in this document,
the Printer MUST support this attribute with the following keyword
value:

'ippget': Indicates that the 'ippget' Pull Delivery Method is to
be used for this Subscription Object.

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7. Subscription Description Attributes

The 'ippget' Delivery Method has the conformance requirements for
Subscription Description attributes defined in [RFC3995]. 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:

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

2. An Event associated with the new Job occurs immediately after the
Subscription Object is created;

3. the same client or some other client performs a Get-Notifications
operation so 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 at 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.

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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
[RFC3995] (regarding the 'job-completed' event). The latter explains
that a Notification Recipient 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 contains the "notify-pull-method"
attribute with the 'ippget' keyword value. 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 as defined in [RFC3995].

9.1. notify-pull-method-supported (1setOf type2 keyword)

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

'ippget': The IPP Notification Pull 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 code is defined as an extension for this
Delivery Method and is returned as the status code of the Get-
Notifications operation in Group 1 or Group 3 to N (see section 5.2).

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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 (1) the
Subscription Object is canceled with a Cancel-Subscription operation,
(2) the Subscription object is deleted, when the Per-Printer
Subscription lease time expires, or (3) 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.

11. 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 after 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 [RFC3995]), 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 and wants the client explicitly polled for Event
Notifications, the Printer MUST return the "notify-get-interval"
operation attribute (see section 5.2.1). The Printer returns the

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response as an application/ipp part that MAY be inside an multi-
part/related type. The client MUST accept this response and
reissue the Get-Notifications request in the future indicated by
the value of the "notify-get-interval" attribute value.

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 that MUST be
inside an multi-part/related type.

NOTE: If a Notification Recipient fails to receive a response, it
can ask the Printer for the same Event Notifications again. The
Notification Recipient will receive the same Event Notifications that
it should have received the first time, except for those Event
Notifications that have expired in the meantime.

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

This notification delivery method uses the IPP transport and encoding
[RFC2910] for the Get-Notifications operation with the following
extension, allocated in [RFC3995]:

Table 8. The "event-notification-attributes-tag" Value

Tag Value (Hex) Meaning

0x07 "event-notification-attributes-tag"

12. Conformance Requirements

This section lists the conformance requirements for clients and
Printers.

12.1. Conformance for IPP Printers

It is OPTIONAL for a Printer to support IPP Notifications as defined
in [RFC3995]. However, if a Printer supports IPP Notifications, the
Printer MUST support the 'ippget' Delivery Method, as defined in this
document, as one of its Delivery Methods. IPP Printers that conform
to this specification

1. MUST meet the conformance requirements defined in [RFC3995] for a
Pull Delivery Method;

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

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

10. MUST meet the security conformance requirements stated in section
18.4.

12.2. Conformance for IPP Clients

It is OPTIONAL for an IPP Client to support IPP Notifications as
defined in [RFC3995]. However, if a client supports IPP
Notifications, the client MUST support the 'ippget' Delivery Method
as defined in this document as one of its Delivery Methods. IPP
Clients that conform to this specification:

1. MUST create Subscription Objects by sending Subscription Creation
operation requests containing the "notify-pull-method" attribute
(as opposed to the "notify-recipient-uri" attribute) using the
'ippget' keyword value (see sections 6.1 and 15.2);

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

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3. MUST convert the associated 'ipp' URLs for use in IPP Get-
Notifications operation to their corresponding 'http' URL forms
for use in the HTTP layer, according to the rules in section 5,
"IPP URL Scheme", in [RFC2910]; and

4. MUST meet the security conformance requirements stated in section
18.5.

13. Normative References

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

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

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

[RFC3995] Herriot, R. and T. Hastings, "Internet Printing Protocol
(IPP): Event Notifications and Subscriptions", RFC 3995,
March 2005.

14. Informative References

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

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

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

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

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

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[RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
Masinter, L., Leach, P., and 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", RFC 2707, November 1999.

[RFC3196] Hastings, T., Manros, C., Zehler, P., Kugler, C., and H.
Holst, "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementor's
Guide", RFC 3196, November 2001.

[RFC3997] Hastings, T., Ed., deBry, R., and H. Lewis, "Internet
Printing Protocol (IPP): Requirements for IPP
Notifications", RFC 3997, March 2005.

15. IANA Considerations

This section contains the exact information that the IANA has added
to the IPP Registries according to the procedures defined in
[RFC2911], section 6. These registrations have been published in the
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipp-registrations registry.

15.1. Attribute Registrations

The following table lists the attributes defined in this document.
This has been registered according to the procedures in RFC 2911
[RFC2911] section 6.2.

Printer Description attributes: Reference Section
------------------------------- --------- -------
ippget-event-life (integer(15:MAX)) [RFC3996] 8.1

15.2. Delivery Method and Additional Keyword Attribute Value
Registrations for Existing Attributes

This section lists additional keyword attribute value registrations
for use with existing attributes defined in other documents. These
have been registered according to the procedures in [RFC2911],
section 6.1. According to [RFC3995], section 24.7.3, Pull Delivery
Method registrations are the keyword attribute value registrations
for the "notify-pull-method" and "notify-pull-method-supported"
attributes.

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Attribute (attribute syntax)
Values Reference Section
----------------------- --------- -------
notify-pull-method (type2 keyword) [RFC3995] 5.3.2
notify-pull-method-supported (1setOf type2 keyword)
[RFC3995] 5.3.2.1
ippget [RFC3996] 9.1

15.3. Additional Enum Attribute Values

The following table lists the enum attribute values defined in this
document. These have been registered according to the procedures in
[RFC2911], section 6.1.

Attribute (attribute syntax)
Value Name Reference Section
------ ----------------------------- --------- -------
operations-supported (1setOf type2 enum) [RFC2911] 4.4.15
0x001C Get-Notifications [RFC3996] 9.2

15.4. Operation Registrations

The following table lists the operations defined in this document.
This has been registered according to the procedures in RFC 2911
[RFC2911] section 6.4.

Operations: Reference Section
----------- --------- -------
Get-Notifications [RFC3996] 5

15.5. Status Code Registrations

The following table lists the status codes defined in this document.
This has been registered according to the procedures in [RFC2911],
section 6.6.

Status codes: Reference Section
------------- --------- -------
successful-ok-events-complete (0x0007) [RFC3996] 10.1

16. Internationalization Considerations

The IPP Printer MUST localize the "notify-text" attribute as
specified in section 14 of [RFC3995].

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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.

17. Security Considerations

The IPP Model and Semantics document [RFC2911, section 8] discusses
high-level security requirements (Client Authentication, Server
Authentication and Operation Privacy). The IPP Transport and
Encoding document [RFC2910, section 8] discusses the security
requirements for the IPP protocol. 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 Privacy is defined as a mechanism for protecting operations
from eavesdropping.

The 'ippget' Delivery Method with its Get-Notifications operations
leverages the security mechanism that are used in IPP/1.1 [RFC2910
and RFC2911] without adding any additional security mechanisms in
order to maintain the same security support as IPP/1.1.

The access control model for the Get-Notifications operation defined
in this document is the same as the access control model for the
Get-Job-Attributes operation (see [RFC2911], section 3.2.6). The
primary difference is that a Get-Notifications operation is directed
at Subscription Objects rather than at Job objects, and a returned
attribute group contains Event Notification attributes rather than
Job object attributes.

17.1. Notification Recipient Client Access Rights

The Notification Recipient client MUST have the following access
rights to the Subscription object(s) targeted by the Get-
Notifications operation request:

The authenticated user (see [RFC2911], section 8.3) performing
this operation MUST be (1) the owner of each Subscription Object
identified by the "notify-subscription-ids" operation attribute
(see section 5.1.1), (2) an operator or administrator of the
Printer (see [RFC2911], sections 1 and 8.5), or (3) otherwise
authorized by the Printer's administrator-configured security
policy to request Event Notifications from the target Subscription
Object(s). Furthermore, the Printer's security policy MAY limit

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the attributes returned by the Get-Notifications operation, in a
manner similar to that of the Get-Job-Attributes operation (see
[RFC2911], end of section 3.3.4.2).

17.2. Printer Security Threats

Because the Get-Notifications operation is sent in the same direction
as are Job Creation operations, usually by the same client, this
Event Notification Delivery Method poses no additional
authentication, authorization, privacy, firewall, or port assignment
issues above those for the IPP Get-Job-Attributes and Get-Printer-
Attributes operations (see [RFC2911], sections 3.2.6 and 3.2.5).

17.3. Notification Recipient Security Threats

Unwanted Events Notifications (spam): Unlike Push Event Notification
Delivery Methods in which the IPP Printer initiates the Event
Notification, with the Pull Delivery Method defined in this document,
the Notification Recipient is the client that initiates the Get-
Notifications operation (see section 5). Therefore, with this method
there is no chance of "spam" notifications.

Note: When a client stays connected to a Printer by using the Event
Wait Mode (see section 5.1.3) in order to receive Event Notifications
as they occur, it can close down the IPP connection at any time and
so can avoid future unwanted Event Notifications at any time.

It is true that the client has control over whether to ask for Event
Notifications. However, if the client subscribes to an event and
does a Get-Notifications request, it gets all events for the
Subscription Object in the sequence number range (see section 5.1.2),
not just those it wants. If a client subscribes to a Per-Printer
Subscription job event, such as 'job-completed', and someone then
starts and cancels thousands of jobs, the client would have to
receive these events in addition to those it is interested in. A
client can protect itself better by subscribing to its own jobs by
using a Per-Job Subscription, rather than create a Per-Printer
subscription whose Job events apply to all jobs.

17.4. Security Requirements for Printers

For the Get-Notifications operation defined in this document, the
same Printer conformance requirements apply for supporting and using
Client Authentication, Server Authentication and Operation Privacy as
stated in [RFC2910] section 8 for all IPP operations.

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17.5. Security Requirements for Clients

For the Get-Notifications operation defined in this document, the
same client conformance requirements apply for supporting and using
Client Authentication, Server Authentication, and Operation Privacy
as stated in [RFC2910], section 8, for all IPP operations.

18. Description of Base IPP Documents (Informative)

The base set of IPP documents includes the following:

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 [RFC3196]
Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols [RFC2569]

"Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol" takes a broad look
at distributed printing functionality, and it enumerates real-life
scenarios that help 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 [RFC2566, RFC2565]. A few OPTIONAL operator operations have
been added to IPP/1.1.

"Rationale for the Structure and Model and Protocol for the Internet
Printing Protocol" 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.

"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 and a Job object. The Job object optionally
supports multiple documents per Job. It also addresses security,
internationalization, and directory issues.

"Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport" 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 'ipp' scheme for identifying IPP printers and jobs.

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"Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide" 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.

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

19. Contributors

Carl Kugler and Harry Lewis contributed the basic idea of in-band
"smart polling" coupled with multiple responses for a single
operation on the same connection, with one response for each event as
it occurs. Without their continual persuasion, we would not have
arrived at this Delivery Method specification and would not have been
able to agree on a single REQUIRED Delivery Method for IPP.

Carl Kugler
IBM Corporation
6300 Diagonal Highway
Boulder, CO 80301

EMail: [email protected]

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Authors' Addresses

Robert Herriot
Global Workflow Solutions
706 Colorado Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94303

Phone: 650-324-4000
EMail: [email protected]

Thomas N. Hastings
Xerox Corporation
710 S Aviation Blvd. ESAE 242
El Segundo CA 90245

Phone: 310-333-6413
Fax: 310-333-6342
EMail: [email protected]

Harry Lewis
IBM Corporation
6300 Diagonal Hwy
Boulder, CO 80301

Phone: (303) 924-5337
EMail: [email protected]

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