OP Arch Minutes - 3 October 2007

Linux Foundation (merger of OSDL and FSG) Open Printing Architecture Conference Call Minutes 3 October 2007

ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/architecture/OP-Arch-Minutes-20071003.htm

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 3pm US EDT 3 October 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Absentees

Agenda

(1) Review and approve minutes from last meeting
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    - None published
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(2) Printing Summit and PWG meetings in September 2007

    - Printing Summit - Montreal, Canada - 24-27 September 2007
      - Ecole Polytechnique
    - IEEE/ISTO PWG / LF OPWG Collaboration
      - Joint Plenary - Thursday am 27 September
    - IEEE/ISTO PWG - Montreal, Canada - 26-28 September 2007
      - PWG WG sessions - Wednesday pm/Thursday pm/Friday am

    - Discussion
      - Till - All speaker slides are now posted on PS WIKI page
      - Ira - No written summary report available yet

    - ACTION
      - Ira - Write up Printing Summit summary report and post

(3) Open Printing Future Directions - Glen Petrie

    - See minutes from Monday's OP Steering Committee meeting
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/OP-SC-Minutes-20071001.pdf

    - Discussion
      - Glen - Suggested topics/projects
        - OP should evaluate our short-/mid-/long-term directions
      - Short - OP should specify guidelines for printer test tools
        - Directory names and calling sequence (printer name)
        - Send data direct to printer via local channel only?
      - Mid - OP should specify guidelines for printing path test tools
        - Cover various printing paths, renderers, and channels
        - Output to file?
      - Long - OP should specify enhancements for discovery/installation
        - Driver installation URI extension for 1284 Device ID?
        - Ira - See previous PWG work on remote driver installation at:
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_DRV/draft-ietf-ipp-install-04.pdf

      - PDF - OP should de-emphasize PDF workflow?
        - Because it's not printing on physical device?
        - Ira - misunderstanding of use of PDF as intermediate format
      - Printing Dialogs - OP should query the Linux distributions
        - Is printing a vector of differentiation?
        - If not, the OP should standardize printing dialogs/installation
      - JTAPI - Model and API are overly complex?
        - Simple data structures should be exposed to application?
        - Ira and Claudia - JTAPI could be extended with convenience calls

    - ACTION
      - OP Arch - discuss and refine above topics, especially driver validation

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Architecture Teleconferences

(1) Wednesday 17 October 2007

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(2) Wednesday 31 October

    - Note
      - Conflicts with LF Summit in Japan same week