RFC - 3382

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

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3382.txt
Authors:	R. deBry [Utah Valley State College], R. Herriot [Consultant], T. Hastings [Xerox Corporation], K. Ocke [Xerox Corporation], P. Zehler [Xerox Corporation]
Date:	September 2002
Category:	Proposed Standard

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Updates:
RFC-2911prop	Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics (Updated by RFC-3996prop, RFC-3995prop, RFC-3382prop, RFC-3380prop)
RFC-2910prop	Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport (Updated by RFC-3995prop, RFC-3510prop, RFC-3382prop, RFC-3380prop, RFC-3381prop)

Referred by:	4 RFC
Refers to:	11 RFC

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Status

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

Copyright Notice

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

Abstract

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

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