Salutation Technical Committee Meeting #8

The 8th Salutation Consortium Technical Committee (TC) meeting was held at Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, California, USA, on October 13 and 14. 25 people attended from the following 15 member companies:.

- Axis
- Canon
- Cisco
- Fuji Xerox
- HP
- IBM
- Lexmark
- Matsushita
- Mita
- Muratec
- Ricoh
- Sharp
- STS Consulting
- Sun
- Xerox

The meeting objectives were to discuss Salutation Architecture enhancement topics, and to establish further work plans. Major agreements made were as follows:

• The TC understood that HP's JetSend and Salutation Architecture are complementary efforts, and agreed to enable JetSend device discovery via Salutation. Following work items are identified to accomplish this objective:
1. add JetSend attribute to the existing FUs, and
2. define a new FU for JetSend devices.
• The TC reviewed and agreed that print operations, printing parameters and job/equipment status are easily mappable between Internet Printing Protocol and Salutation, so that Salutation equipment can serve as IPP printers via a gateway server support for protocol conversion. The TC will continue to watch the IPP activities.
• The TC reviewed the latest status of IETF Internet Fax activity. The TC will continue to watch this activities.
• The TC agreed that the existing [DOC Storage] FU should not be utilized for e-mail/Fax sending operation. Instead, a new FU should be defined in the future for e-mail/Fax.
• The TC agreed that the Salutation Manager (SLM) will use the Service Location Protocol (SLP) to discover services beyond a single subnet, and that the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)-enabled directory would be used via a gateway for services that require global accessibility. The TC understood a need to work on standard directory schema for device services. The schema definition should be easily mappable among the Salutation-defined attributes, SLP schema, and LDAP schema definitions.
• The TC briefly discussed a new enhancement work item to define a Java API to enable server applications to access office equipment so that ISVs will be encouraged to develop applications which will work on any servers and which are independent of underlying protocol between the server and equipment. The TC agreed to research related industry activities and consider possible work scope for us, and to continue discussion at the next TC.