PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 27 January 2020

Attendees

Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Vice Chair)
Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Alan Sukert (Xerox, former PWG Vice Chair, IDS WG Chair)
Paul Tykodi (TCS, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Bill Wagner (TIC, former Cloud WG and 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) IDS WG Chair replacement - Status (Alan)
  (3) PWG February 2020 F2F Plenary Slides - Final Review (Smith)
  (4) PWG 2020 SC Goals and Priorities (All)
  (5) PWG Process 4.0 - Status (Smith)
  (6) PWG Pending Press Releases
  (7) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
  (8) Updates of "pwg-namespace-policy.txt" - Status (Ira)
  (9) Updates of "ipp-registry-policy.txt" - Status (Smith)
  (10) Toolset thoughts (All)
  (11) Next SC meetings (All)
  (12) Action Items - Review (All)

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20190113.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (13 January 2020)
  - Approved as posted

(2) IDS WG Chair replacement - Status (Alan)

- Discussion
  - Alan reached out to some people - waiting to hear back
    - Many of those people usually attend the IDS WG session at F2F events

(3) PWG February 2020 F2F Plenary Slides - Final Review (Smith)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/Plenary/pwg-plenary-february-2020-d1.pdf
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- Discussion
  - Smith has integrated TCG/IETF/OP liaison slides from Ira

  - Waiting on WG status slides from Alan (IDS) and Mike (IPP
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(4) PWG 2020 SC Goals and Priorities (All)

- Discussion
  - Items
    - Process 4.0 at least in a "prototype" or "stable draft" by Q4 / Q3

    - Namespace Policy finalized

    - Registry Policy update finalized

    - Deprecation and Obsoletion Policy

    - Complete Website Update and Transition to new web hosting provider

    - New IPP Everywhere self certification registration process

    - Continue marketing / press releases initiative

    - PWG Design Philosophy (intent-based, interoperable, user-friendly, scalable, etc.)

    - Re-vitalizing interest in the PWG
      - This is really the underlying question of the last several years
      - Evangelizing adoption of new IPP specifications
      - Evangelizing the IPP Everywhere ecosystem to client vendors and printer vendors
      - Evangelizing adoption of IPP semantics, IPP 3D and PWG Safe G-Code to 3D ecosystems
        - All of these are true for 3D as well as 2D

  - Votes
    - Alan: Process 4.0, Complete Website, IPP Everywhere Self Cert

    - Ira: Process 4.0, Complete Website, IPP Everywhere Self Cert

    - Bill: Re-vitalizing interest in the PWG, Process 4.0, IPP Everywhere Self Cert

    - Jeremy: Re-vitalizing interest in the PWG, Complete Website Update, IPP Everywhere 
      Self Cert, Deprecation and Obsoletion Policy

    - Paul: Re-vitalizing interest in the PWG, Process 4.0, IPP Everywhere Self Cert

    - Smith: Re-vitalizing interest in the PWG, Process 4.0, IPP Everywhere Self Cert

  - Next steps
    - Continue on Process 4 planning and work

    - IPP Everywhere Self Cert infrastructure done and 1.1 specs done too

    - Re-vitalizing interest in the PWG
      - State of IPP slide deck
      - Outreach
      - WebEx & 3D conference presence and presentations

(5) PWG Process 4.0 - Status (Smith)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/process4/pwg-process-4-planning-20200124.xlsx
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/process4/pwg-process-4-planning-20200127.xlsx
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- Discussion
  - Reviewed latest PWG Process 4.0 planning spreadsheet

  - Live edits produced new draft posted after the SC meeting
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(6) PWG Pending Press Releases
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- Discussion
  - Deferred
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(7) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
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- Discussion
  - Deferred
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(8) Updates of "pwg-namespace-policy.txt" - Status (Ira)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/pwg-namespace-policy-20160820.txt
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/pwg-namespace-policy-20160820.docx
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- Discussion
  - Deferred
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(9) Updates of "ipp-registry-policy.txt" - Status (Smith)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/ipp-registry-policy-20191121.docx
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- Discussion
  - Deferred
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(10) Toolset thoughts (All)
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- Discussion
  - Deferred
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(11) Next SC meetings (All)
http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc

- PWG February 2020 F2F - Wednesday 5 February 2020 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern
  - F2F Plenary

- SC - Monday 10 February 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - debrief February PWG Virtual F2F

- SC - Monday 24 February 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting

(12) Action Items - Review (All)

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

  - Should we have long term vs. short term action items? 
    - Let's try it by triaging what we have, when we get to it...

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: 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
- IN PROGRESS
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: 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: 02/25/19 - Paul to reach out to MT Connect on behalf of PWG
- 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 development work on embedding 3MF job tickets
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to create the PWG IPP Status 2019 deck (for Mopria and others)
- IN PROGRESS
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
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 07/01/19 - Smith to talk to Mike about updating the 3D page so that it lists the growing list of 3D related PWG documents
- OPEN
ACTION: 07/15/19 - Smith to look for alternate web hosting providers and / or discuss other solutions with Mike Sweet
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 07/29/19 - Ira to produce an updated draft of pwg-namespace-policy for review at a future SC meeting
- OPEN
ACTION: 08/28/19 - Smith/Ira to start a new thread on Process 4.0 framework
- OPEN
ACTION: 09/09/19 - Smith/Ira to keep nudging forward IPP Everywhere™ plugfest
- OPEN
ACTION: 09/09/19 - Paul to post query to ipp@pwg.org reflector on how to appropriately convey "print quality" attributes that may be relating to process, and how they should be represented via IPP (keeping in mind process vs. intent)
- OPEN
ACTION: 09/23/19 - Smith to make sure PWG PR effort doesn't lose momentum
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 11/18/19 - Smith to work w/ ISTO and Mike to get PWG business notes delivered to all three PWG officers
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 12/16/19 - Smith to get events page listed on PWG meetings page
- OPEN
ACTION: 12/16/19 - Smith to find a good crisp explanation (hopefully from Google) about what GCP discontinuance actually means, because the articles are a bit vague and our PWG answer would need to respond to the Google statement directly
- OPEN
ACTION: 12/16/19 - Smith and Paul to get a liaison agreement between PWG and 3D PDF Consortium
- IN PROGRESS
Paul met with Phil Spreier on 12/16/19 and will send an introductory email to Smith and Joni to get the ball rolling on this liaison
ACTION: 12/16/19 - Smith to remind folks about 11/21/19 draft of IPP Registry Policy and be ready for review at future SC meeting
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Smith to resurrect the PWG Job Descriptions draft and re-invigorate the email thread on this
- CLOSED
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Smith to send email to SC with proposal for expanded Vice Chair roles and responsibilities
- CLOSED
- https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20191118.htm
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Smith to send email to have SC members vote for their top 3 PWG 2020 SC Goals and Priorities
- CLOSED
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Smith to get WG officers to provide WG status slides and liaison "officers" provide liaison status slides for PWG February 2020 F2F
- CLOSED
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Smith to reach out to Mopria and 3MF Consortium on status updates for PWG February 2020 F2F
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Smith to post d2 draft Plenary slides for PWG February 2020 F2F
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Smith/Ira to connect with Anne Price on press releases
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Ira/Mike to reach out to UK Govt Printing folks to update status
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Paul/Smith to work with Joni to get ISO TC171 SC2 WG12 liaison going
- IN PROGRESS