PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 17 June 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)
Paul Tykodi (TCS, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Bill Wagner (TIC, former Cloud WG and WIMS WG Chair, call-in)

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) PWG Last Calls - Status (Smith/Ira)
  (3) PWG August Virtual F2F Agenda - Status (Smith)
  (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
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20190603.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (3 June 2019)
  - Approved as posted

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

- Discussion
  - IPP Authentication Methods v1.0
    - PWG Last Call (second) ended 11 May 2019
    - Quorum achieved (9 responses, no comments)
    - Smith sent new draft on 27 May 2019
    - IPP WG to review new draft w/ LCRC changes before starting PWG Formal Approval vote
    - PWG SC has pre-approved PWG LC process on 3 June 2019
    - IPP WG meetings on 06 June 2019 and 20 June 2019 were both cancelled
    - next IPP WG meeting is TBD (due to IDS calls and US July 4th).

  - PWG Safe G-Code Subset for 3D Printing v1.0
    - PWG Formal Approval ended 4 June 2019
    - Quorum achieved (7 YES, w/ 1 comment)
    - PWG SC has pre-approved PWG Formal Approval process on 3 June 2019
    - Mike issued final text on 14 June 2019
    - PWG Announcement pending

  - IPP Job Extensions v2.0
    - PWG Last Call ends 21 June 2019 on new draft of 24 May 2019
    - 6 responses so far (as of morning of 06/18) (need 8 for quorum of 30% of 25)
    - Ira and Smith have both posted requests for review
    - Smith is actively reviewing and will reply soon
    - Alan is actively reviewing and will reply soon (Alan did so w/ comments)
    - Encourage SC members to review

  - IPP System Service v1.0
    - IPP WG Last Call ended 31 May 2019 (w/ Bill's editorial comments, to be addressed
      per IPP WG on 23 May 2019)
    - Mike has completed all prototyping in "ippserver" tool
    - Need new draft before starting PWG Last Call (active AI open for this)

ACTION: 06/17/19 - IPP WG Officers to discuss scheduling of interim off-cycle IPP WG meetings
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to announce PWG Safe G-Code Subset for 3D Printing v1.0 on pwg-announce
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to ask Anne to draft a PR for PWG Safe G-Code
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to beat bushes for additional responses for PWG Last Call for IPP Job Extensions v2.0
- IN PROGRESS (since 06/03/17)

(3) PWG August Virtual F2F Agenda - Status (Smith)
http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/august-2019-virtual.html
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- Discussion
  - Smith announced meeting page and schedule is up-to-date
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(4) Future of PWG / PR efforts - Status (Smith/Ira)

- Discussion
  - PWG / 3MF Liaison PR
    - Blog posting on 18 June 2019 to coordinate w/ press release to BusinessWire

  - PWG / RAPID PR
    - Press release on 17 May 2019 to Business Wire, AP News, Yahoo Finance, and others
    - Distributed to 30,000 RAPID newsletter subscribers and 50,000 attendees

  - PWG / INCITS Liaison
    - Waiting for liaison with INCITS to be signed
    - Do a coordinated PR with INCITS

  - What other PRs do we have coming up?
    - PWG Safe G-Code Subset for 3D Printing v1.0
    - IPP Authentication Methods v1.0
    - IPP Job Extensions v2.0 
    - IPP System Service v1.0

ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to create the PWG IPP Status 2019 deck (for Mopria and others)
- OPEN

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

- Discussion
  - GSoC 2019 update
    - Things are going well and off and working for GSoC 2019
    - Mike has created branches / projects / targets etc. for this work on GitHub

  - GSoC 2019 timeline
    - DONE - 6-27 May - Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed 
      to begin coding

    - DONE - 27 May - Coding officially begins!

    - 24-28 June - Mentors and students do Phase 1 evaluations

    - 22-26 July - Mentors and students do Phase 2 evaluations

    - 19-26 August - Students submit final work product and their final mentor evaluation

    - 26 August to 2 September - Mentors submit final student evaluations

  - OP new website development was paused due to GSoC 2019 startup and student exams
    - Work to be restarted soon

(6) ISO JTC1 SC28 liaison - Status (Alan)
https://www.iso.org/committee/45314.html (ISO JTC1 SC28 - Office Equipment)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria
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- Discussion
  - No updates
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(7) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
https://www.iso.org/committee/45020.html (ISO/IEC JTC1 - Information Technology)
http://www.web3d.org/sites/default/files/attachment/node/2248/edit/ JTC1_3D%20Printing%20and%20Scanning_WG.pdf (ISO/IEC JTC1 WG12 - 3D Scanning and Printing)
https://www.sme.org/technologies/iramp/ (iRAMP)
https://www.americamakes.us/ (America Makes)
https://www.americamakes.us/about/#About_team (America Makes officers)

- Discussion
  - INCITIS
    - Fill out the form for INCITS to make the PWG a liaison with INCITS
      - That will give PWG visibility to ISO/IEC JTC1 WG 12

  - RAPID updates
    - Meeting and PWG presentation went well
      - Flurry of activity

    - ANSI folks missed RAPID due to bad weather when traveling but did call in

    - Terms of Use: Best Practice or Specification? 
      - "Active" discussion on this subject
      - Gets into semantics of 3D printing
      - Can be a rabbit hole

    - FDA: very interested in IPP and Get-Printer-Attributes and the possibility of an 
      IPP Everywhere 3D certification program, for printing bio-materials
      - nozzle sizes are variable and very important
      - write .test files for ipptool as an interim step to IPP Everywhere 3D cert program?

    - iRAMP database
      - materials
      - cost calculator
      - Paul asked iRAMP about their interest - answer pending

    - Quite a lot of interest in AMSC in the 3D PDF association and common metadata
      - Paul submitted a grant proposal to ASTM for TCS to engage on this directly

    - America Makes got a new Executive Director

ACTION: 06/17/19 - Paul / Smith / Ira to fill out INCITS liaison form for PWG and send to Jessica for review / approval before sending back to INCITS
- OPEN

(8) Other liaisons (3MF, Mopria, etc.) - Status (Smith)
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- Discussion
  - PWG / 3MF liaison press release going out Tuesday 18 June 2019
  - Nothing from Mopria lately
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ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to check in with Jeremy Reitz about Mopria status for 2019 and ask whether they want an PWG IPP 2019 Update for presentation at a Mopria F2F
- OPEN

(9) PWG Website - Status (Smith)
https://www.icdsoft.com/

- Discussion
  - Smith reached out again to Jessica about managed web hosting

  - IEEE-ISTO reps will engage with ICDSoft to try to sign a contract for the PWG
    
  - If ISTO review of ICDSoft is good, ISTO will hand Mike / Smith the account info

ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to check in with Greg & Jessica at IEEE-ISTO about status of their efforts with ICDSoft and will urge them along if they aren't making progress
- OPEN

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

- SC - Monday 1 July 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting

- SC - Monday 15 July 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting

- SC - Monday 29 July 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting
  - August F2F Plenary draft review

- SC - Monday 12 August 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting
  - Last minute August F2F stuff

(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: 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
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 02/25/19 - Smith/Mike to get mailman working reliably again for SC and IPP
- CLOSED
ACTION: 02/25/19 - Paul to reach out to MT Connect on behalf of PWG
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/22/19 - Smith to ping Anne Price for calendar / road map for PR releases
- CLOSED
ACTION: 04/22/19 - Smith to schedule a follow-up call with Anne Price on PWG PR efforts
- CLOSED
ACTION: 05/06/19 - Smith to ask the SC to make a list of the things we are anticipating wanting to be announced as PR announcements, and get that to Anne Price so that she can develop the timeline for when they should be released
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 05/20/19 - Ira to get IPP WG to make new draft of IPP Job Extensions v2.0 ready for PWG Last Call
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 05/20/19 - Ira to start PWG Last Call for IPP System Service v1.0 once IPP WG Last Call completes
- OPEN
ACTION: 05/20/19 - Ira / Alan to add "Other interesting reflectors and groups" section to the IDS WG page on the PWG website
- OPEN
ACTION: 05/20/19 - Paul / Mike to maybe do some dev work on embedding 3MF job tickets in about a month or so
- OPEN
ACTION: 05/20/19 - Smith to pursue this PWG managed web hosting option, possibly with ICDSoft, and loop in Mike and ISTO as needed
- CLOSED (new action on 06/17/19 for IEEE-ISTO to conclude ICDSoft contract for PWG)
ACTION: 06/03/19 - Mike/Ira to publish new draft of IPP System Service v1.0 before starting PWG Last Call
- OPEN