PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 25 March 2019

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Alan Sukert (Xerox, PWG Vice Chair, IDS WG Chair)
Bill Wagner (TIC, former Cloud WG Chair, former WIMS WG Chair)

Preface

This meeting was announced and chaired by Smith Kennedy.

These minutes were prepared by Ira McDonald with much help from Smith Kennedy.

Agenda

(0) Agenda bashing, IP Policy, minute taker

- Review agenda and state PWG IP Policy
  - Ira McDonald as minute taker

- Revised Agenda:

  (1) Administrivia
  (2) Joint PWG/OP April F2F Agenda - Status (Smith/Ira)
  (3) PWG Last Calls - Status (Smith/Ira)
  (4) Future of PWG / PR efforts - Status (Smith/Ira)
  (5) Open Printing GSoC 2019 / new website - Status (Ira)
  (6) ISO JTC1 SC28 liaison - Status (Alan)
  (7) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
  (8) Other liaisons (3MF, Mopria, etc.) - Status (Smith)
  (9) PWG Website - Status (Smith)
  (10) Next SC meetings
  (11) Action Items Review (All)

(1) Administrivia
http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20190225.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (25 February 2019)
  - Approved as posted

(2) Joint PWG/OP April F2F Agenda - Status (Smith/Ira)
http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/april-2019-lexington.html
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- Discussion
  - Schedule was revised to accommodate several attendees' schedules (Sean Kau, Michael 
    Vrhel, Aveek Basu)

  - 8+ people attending in person (according to survey)

  - WebEx difficulty mitigations
    - Smith has separate meeting links for each of the 3 days
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ACTION: 03/25/19 - Smith to reach out to recent IPP WG attendees who haven't filled out the April 2019 F2F survey yet, to see if they will be attending in person or via WebEx
- OPEN
ACTION: 03/25/19 - Smith to post April 2019 F2F Plenary slides draft for review for next SC meeting and remind WG chairs and liaison reps to send slides
- CLOSED

(3) PWG Last Calls - Status (Smith/Ira)

- Discussion
  - IPP Authentication Methods v1.0
    - Technical updates so we need to do a second IPP WG Last Call and PWG Last Call
    - Publication later this summer (?)

  - PWG Safe G-Code v1.0
    - PWG Last Call ended 28 February 2019, but LCRC reviews have to be done in IPP WG on
      28 March 2019 or later before PWG SC can do process approval
    - SC could approve LCRC review at April 2019 F2F Plenary session and start PWG Formal
      Vote afterwards, if there are no lingering issues

  - PWG MFD Alerts v1.1 
    - IPP WG Last Call ended 14 March 2019
    - PWG Call for Objections ends 12 April 2019
    - SC could approve Call for Objections process at April 2019 F2F Plenary session

  - IPP 3D Printing Extensions v1.1
    - PWG Call for Objections ends 29 March 2019
    - SC could approve Call for Objections process at SC meeting on 8 April 2019

(4) Future of PWG / PR efforts - Status (Smith/Ira)

- Discussion
  - Smith and Ira have a Call on Wednesday 27 March 2019 with Anne Price

  - Anne shared draft slides 
    - Ira forwarded to the SC reflector and suggested email responses

(5) Open Printing GSoC 2019 / new website - Status (Ira)

- Discussion
  - Linux Foundation accepted as GSoC 2019 mentor organization (Aveek and Till)

  - Student recruitment and evaluations are in progress (Aveek and Till)

  - GSoC 2019 timeline
    - 6-25 February - Google program administrators review organization applications

    - 26 February - List of accepted mentoring organizations published

    - 26 February to 25 March - Potential students discuss ideas with mentoring organizations

    - 25 March - Student application period begins

    - 9 April - Student application deadline

    - 6 May - Accepted student proposals announced

    - 6-27 May - Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin

    - 27 May - Coding officially begins!

  - OP new website
    - Mostly complete 
      - Team of six developers very active in January through March
    
    - "About" page describes collaboration w/ PWG on IPP projects

    - "Driverless Printing" page has IPP Everywhere logo and brief description

(6) ISO JTC1 SC28 liaison - Status (Alan)
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- Discussion
  - No updates
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(7) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)

- Discussion
  - Paul to send info via email to SC reflector

(8) Other liaisons (3MF, Mopria, etc.) - Status (Smith)

- Discussion
  - Mopria
    - No updates

  - 3MF Consortium
    - SIGNED on 26 March 2019!
    - Rani Abdellatif (Microsoft) is the new liaison contact at 3MF Consortium
    - 3MF Consortium is moving to Linux Foundation (is this true? or still in transition?)
    - 3MF Consortium wants to do a joint PR announcement about the liaison establishment

  - Do we report on Common Criteria liaison in the PWG Plenary?
    - Do we have a liaison agreement established?

ACTION: 03/25/19 - Smith to reach out to Jeremy Reitz (Xerox, Mopria liaison)
- OPEN

(9) PWG Website - Status (Smith)
https://github.com/istopwg/website/wiki/2019-New-PWG-Site

- Discussion
  - Need to continue development Mike has been doing to Beta site

  - Need to figure out FTP archives, mailing lists, etc.

(10) Next SC meetings
http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc

- PWG PR - Monday 27 March 2019 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
  - Anne / Smith / Ira - all SC members are invited to participate

- SC - Monday 8 April 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - review April 2019 F2F Plenary slides

- Plenary - Tuesday 6am Pacific / 9am Eastern
  - review status and liaisons

- SC - Monday 22 April 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - debrief F2F or cancel meeting?

- SC - Monday 6 May 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting

(11) Action Items Review (All)

- Discussion
  - Deferred (but status updated - see below)

Previous Action Items

ACTION: Ira to document OID arc usage in PWG
- OPEN - pwg-mib-numbers-20091220.txt
- "arc" is any single value (often least-significant) in an OID - Existing plain text PWG policy and registry for each PWG MIB base OID - IBM gave PWG a permanent arc for LDAP OIDs for Print Schema (RFC 7612)
- LDAP OIDs to be documented in a additional policy and registry in ".../process/"
ACTION: Ira to update "pwg-namespace-policy-20060112.txt" - add "white" prefix and update project and document lifecycles
- IN PROGRESS
- pwg-namespace-policy-20160820.txt is first draft
ACTION: Smith/Mike/Ira/anybody to draft whitepaper on late binding for best fidelity in Cloud servers, intent vs. process for output fidelity, and the fundamental design ethos of the PWG's work
- OPEN
- Perhaps have as a topic for some future PWG F2F to enumerate core set of concepts with which to construct an outline for the document
- Smith to add discussion of this late binding for the future F2F Plenary
ACTION: Smith to write an outline of the structure of Process 4.0 for SC review
- OPEN
ACTION: Smith to request SC review of pwg-namespace-policy-20160820.txt before an SC meeting
- OPEN
ACTION: Smith/Jessica to update "liaison agreement template" or create new "license agreement template" that would allow a partner to grant to PWG the right to use or reference content within - should this be created by the PWG or by the org that is granting the license?
- OPEN
ACTION: Paul to draft summary of PWG 3D efforts for review by SC and Anne Price
- OPEN
ACTION: Jessica/Paul to check with Pat (ASTM) on resolution to how they can take PWG terms but still provide attribution
- OPEN
ACTION: Paul to send email to Pat (ASTM) and copy Jessica on a proposal for a path forward that has been discussed (targeted license agreement, etc.)
- OPEN
ACTION: 08/06/18 - Smith to contact Alexander Auster (Autodesk) about PWG and 3MF liaison status per IPP WG minutes of 04/26/18
- IN PROGRESS
- Smith is engaging w/ Alexander Oster (Autodesk, 3MF liaison) in January 2019
ACTION: 10/08/18 - SC to review PWG Officer Job Descriptions and provide feedback
- IN PROGRESS
- Smith sent a new draft
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/pwg-staff-and-their-responsibilities-2018-07-16.docx
- Smith to read Bill's response email on PWG Officer Job Descriptions and post another draft
- Related to "Future of PWG" topic
ACTION: 12/03/18 - Alan to pursue liaison / engagement with ISO JTC1 SC28 and do what is needed in IDS WG meetings
- IN PROGRESS
- Alan has a dialogue w/ Masahiro-san of ISO JTC1 SC28
- Alan held an IDS meeting on 01/24/19
ACTION: 12/17/18 - Alan to contact Paul Jeran (HP) about a PWG liaison with the US TAG of SC 28 (administered by INCITIS) and communicate that we are intending to pursue a liaison with other ISO JTC1 SCs in a similar fashion
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/28/19 - Smith to get Anne Price to draft and release a press release about the new 3MF/PWG liaison agreement whenever it is signed
- OPEN
ACTION: 02/25/19 - Smith/Mike to get mailman working reliably again for SC and IPP
- OPEN
ACTION: 02/25/19 - Paul to reach out to MT Connect on behalf of PWG
- OPEN