PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 14 December 2020

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Chair)
Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Vice Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Alan Sukert (Independent, 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) Action Item Review
  (3) PWG February 2021 Virtual F2F - planning (All)
  (4) Zoom vs. Webex (All)
  (5) Working with INCITS to develop a 3D Printing PP - status (Alan / Paul)
  (6) PWG Process 4.0 - status (Smith)
  (7) PR Opportunity (Paul / Smith)
  (8) IPP Everywhere 2.0 - status (Smith)
  (9) OpenPrinting GSoC/GSoD/LFMP 2020 - update (Ira)
  (10) AMSC/ISO Liaisons - update (Paul)
  (11) Next SC Meetings

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20201130.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (30 November 2020)
  - Approved as posted

(2) Action Item Review

ACTION: 11/16/20 - Smith to connect with Apple / Microsoft / Google member primary and alternate
contacts directly to encourage them to be present if possible (they've all been absent recently)
- IN PROGRESS

ACTION: 11/30/20 - Paul to produce a few "themes" for PR article topics and share with the PWG SC
on the reflector for us to discuss via email or on a future call. Ideas: 3D printing security? / IPP 3D
Everywhere? semantics? fundamentals / 2D vs. 3D printing?
- OPEN

ACTION: 11/30/20 - Smith to add some IPP Everywhere 2.0 goals to Wiki page and change the list of
goals to be the actions to satisfy the goals
- CLOSED

ACTION: 11/30/20 - Smith to contact Mike Rhines to see if there is a need for further discussion with
Mopria about "client-info-col" / "document-format-details"
- OPEN

(3) PWG February 2021 Virtual F2F - planning (All)

- Discussion
  - Smith emailed draft agenda on 7 December 2020.
    - Ira, Alan, Jeremy sent feedback.

  - Smith emailed revised draft agenda on 7 December 2020.

(4) Zoom vs. Webex (All)
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- Discussion
  - Smith has contacted Joni once again - awaiting response / action.

  - There were some email delivery issues on Joni's end.
    - Now resolved?
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ACTION: 12/14/20 - Smith to inquire with ISTO about getting a way to get the PWG SC the ability to pay for things directly
- OPEN
ACTION: 12/14/20 - Smith to query Joni's manager about the delayed engagement on creating a new PWG WebEx account
- OPEN

(5) Working with INCITS to develop a 3D Printing PP - status (Alan / Paul)

- Discussion
  - Paul sharing the presentation with someone who leads the group in ISO group doing 
    guidance and standards for physical 3D printer equipment that is concerned about 3D 
    Printing and cybersecurity.

  - Paul has been contacted by someone in US Dept of Commerce German office about 
    cybersecurity and its role in product certification and how that might be picked up 
    by the EU, who seems to have a growing interest in this area.

  - At INCITS TC monthly meeting (tomorrow), discussion about creation of a standard 
    which includes security topics that would dovetail with a 3D Printing PP if it was 
    created.

(6) PWG Process 4.0 - Status (Smith)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/pwg-officer-elections-policy-20201207.pdf

- Discussion
  - Smith is working on Officer Election Process .
    - Latest draft on 7 December 2020 (see link above).

  - Refactored Process 4.0 draft pending.

  - Why don't we author our policy documents in Word and publish to PDF like we do with 
    all our other documents?
    - Good question!

    - Text policy documents were tradition.

    - SC consensus is to move to Word and publish to PDF.

    - Smith to move to Word for next drafts of unpublished policy documents.

(7) PR Opportunity (Paul / Smith)

- Discussion
  - 3D PR status
    - Paul to work on some "themes" for 3D PR (per previous action).

(8) IPP Everywhere 2.0 - status (Smith)
https://github.com/istopwg/ippsample/wiki/Planned-PWG-Errata-Updates
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ipp-charter-20201208-rev.pdf

- Discussion
  - Smith added "real" goals to Wiki page.

  - Ira is wondering why we are discussing IPP Everywhere 2.0 goals in the SC.
    - Good point - move IPP Everywhere 2.0 discussion to IPP WG (see latest IPP WG Charter).

(9) OpenPrinting GSoC/GSoD/LFMP 2020 - Update (Ira)
https://openprinting.github.io
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc
https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs
https://communitybridge.org/
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-December-2020/
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.3.3op1
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.0.0
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.6

- Discussion
- CUPS OpenPrinting v2.3.3op1 - released on 27 November 2020
- First release in CUPS OP fork (until Apple resumes support for CUPS).

- Already made it into Debian unstable and will soon get merged into Ubuntu Hirsute
Hippo (21.04).

- Also, the CUPS Snap is updated to this version of CUPS OP.

- PAPPL v1.0.0 - released on 12/11/20
- First stable release of PAPPL is now available for download.

- PAPPL is a simple C-based framework/library for developing CUPS Printer Applications,
which are the recommended replacement for traditional printer drivers.

- CUPS Filters v1.28.6 - released on 12/02/20
- Bug fix release.

- OP GSoC (Google Season of Code) 2020 - completed on 09/08/20
- 1 student dropped out in July (project continued in LFMP).
- 1 student failed at end of August (project continued in LFMP).
- All other OP GSoC 2020 projects were successful

- OP GSoC 2021 - planning - in progress
- Currently looking for project ideas for next year’s GSoC.
- Student projects will only be half the time (6 weeks).

- OP GSoD (Google Season of Docs) 2020 - completed on 12/05/20
- 1 student made excellent progress on Printer Applications documentation.

- LFMP (Linux Foundation Mentorship Program) - completed in December 2020
- IPP Scan - 2 students made good progress.
- IPP FaxOut - 2 students dropped out in October and November 2020.

- OP Steering Committee
- OP monthly calls 11/10/20, 12/08/20, and upcoming 01/05/21.

- By mid-January 2021, we need to send PWG ideas for GSoC 2021 to OpenPrinting, since
they need to decide what projects to pursue for GSoC 2021.
- Scope has to be much smaller, because the span of the projects (spin up to ending)
is now 6 weeks.

ACTION: 12/14/20 - Ira to send email to SC and IPP reflectors about very small project objectives for GSoC 2021, and larger project objectives LFMP 2021.
- OPEN

(10) AMSC/ISO Liaisons - Status (Paul)
https://www.sae-itc.com
https://www.sae-itc.com/amdc

- Discussion
  - Also see earlier discussion of PR Opportunities.

  - AMSC did an update last Thursday to America Makes and PWG got a mention as a group 
    that is filling gaps
    - ASTM F42 WG8

  - SAE ITC (SAE Industry Technologies Consortia) provides consortia with a "hosting 
    environment" similar to IEEE-ISTO, and one of the groups that they host is AMDC 
    (Additive Manufacturing Data Consortium).

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

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 21 December 2020
  - CANCELED - holidays

- SC - Monday 28 December 2020
  - CANCELED - holidays

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 4 January 2021
  - CANCELED - holidays

- SC - Monday 11 January 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting
    - draft February 2021 F2F Plenary Slide review

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 18 January 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - document review

- SC - Monday 25 January 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting
    - final February 2021 F2F Plenary Slide review

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 1 February 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - document review

- SC - Monday 8 February 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting - CANCELED due to February 2020 PWG F2F

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/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: 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: 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: 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: 02/24/20 - Smith: Reach out to Kyle from PrinterLogic to check in maybe in a few weeks
- OPEN
ACTION: 03/23/20 - Paul to write initial draft of PWG article for Specialist Printing Worldwide for review by PWG SC on 04/20/20
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 04/06/20 - Smith to search IPP reflector archives for latest registrations since February 2020 Virtual F2F
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 06/15/20 - Smith to create new "PWG Documents Style Policy" and add line numbering, change logs, and other style recommendations there, so that they don't get lost - also add text discussing templates as well
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 06/15/20 - Smith/Ira to add discussion of change logs in the new draft "PWG Documents Style Policy"
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/29/20 - Smith to ask Mike Rhines if Mopria has any 3D Printing interests
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/29/20 - Paul to contact Joni and CC Smith about dealing with payment by PWG SC for Paul's individual membership in the PDF Association
- IN PROGRESS - Paul has filled out registration - invoice should be forthcoming.
ACTION: 07/27/20 - Smith to figure out what PWG Policy drafts already exist and then reboot to produce the PWG Process 4.0 outline
- OPEN
- Refresh from action of 06/29/20
ACTION: 07/27/20 - Smith to reach out to Xerox (Chris Rizzo), Kyocera (Anthony Suarez), Ricoh (Uli Wehner), and Canon (Steven Young) to see if they have any printers that might be getting close to being certified so that they can be named in the IPP Everywhere press release
- OPEN
ACTION: 07/27/20 - Smith to create the IPP State of the Union deck for 2020
- OPEN
- Refresh from action of 06/15/20
ACTION: 08/18/20 - Smith to add to Plenary slides that printers don't need to re-certify when new version of IPP Self-Cert Tools is released
- OPEN
ACTION: 08/24/20 - Smith to codify "https" URI scheme usage in the PWG Network Infrastructure Policy document, etc. Also consider how to move away from "ftp.pwg.org" to something more like "files.pwg.org" or "www.pwg.org/files".
- OPEN
ACTION: 08/24/20 - Smith to contact Sean Kau (Google) to see if PWG and Google are both going in the same direction and whether Google is interested in either working together on a press release or if they would object to us posting an informational document on IPP and Chrome OS for local and cloud printing.
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 08/24/20 - Smith to ping Mike Rhines (Qualcomm, Mopria liaison) again about scope / areas of interest for the IPP State of the Union 2020 presentation to November 2020 Mopria meeting
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 09/08/20 - Smith to announce the PWG November 2020 Virtual F2F around 09/21/20 to pwg-announce
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 09/08/20 - Smith to update PWG Roles and Responsibilities policy and post and get approval offline by email
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 09/08/20 - Smith to get initial draft of IPP Everywhere v1.1 update press release done with Anne Price and on to the SC reflector
- IN PROGRESS
- Refresh from action of 08/24/20
ACTION: 09/21/20 - Paul to send in an updated list of PWG documents to AMSC
- OPEN
ACTION: 11/16/20 - All to discuss IPP Everywhere v2.0 as a topic every 4-6 weeks
- OPEN
ACTION: 11/16/20 - Smith to connect with Apple / Microsoft / Google member primary and alternate contacts directly to encourage them to be present if possible (they've all been absent recently)
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 11/30/20 - Paul to produce a few "themes" for PR article topics and share with the PWG SC on the reflector for us to discuss via email or on a future call. Ideas: 3D printing security? / IPP 3D Everywhere? semantics? fundamentals / 2D vs. 3D printing?
- OPEN
ACTION: 11/30/20 - Smith to add some IPP Everywhere 2.0 goals to Wiki page and change the list of goals to be the actions to satisfy the goals
- CLOSED
ACTION: 11/30/20 - Smith to contact Mike Rhines to see if there is a need for further discussion with Mopria about "client-info-col" / "document-format-details"
- OPEN