PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 4 October 2021

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Alan Sukert (Independent, IDS WG Chair)
Paul Tykodi (TCS, IPP WG Co-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 Officer Election (All)
  (4) PWG November F2F Planning (All)
  (5) 3D / IPP article development (All)
  (6) PWG Website update for Security and Privacy - status (Mike)
  (7) OpenPrinting GSoC/GSoD/LFMP - update (Ira)
  (8) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2021 - update (Paul)
  (9) Website / Infrastructure Hosting Transition (All)
  (10) Next SC meetings

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20210920.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (20 September 2021)
  - Approved as posted

(2) Action Item Review

ACTION: 09/20/21 - Smith to announce PWG November F2F by Wednesday 09/22/21 (do the event
page first)
- CLOSED

ACTION: 09/20/21 - Paul to share first draft of article outline or rough article on or before 10/11/21 to be
reviewed at PWG SC Tiger Team call on 10/11/21
- OPEN

(3) PWG Officer Election (All)

- Discussion
  - Jeremy and Smith to trade places

  - Discussed this topic at last SC call and approved the "election by acclamation" process too

  - Should we announce the results before the F2F? 
    - No, let's just announce it during the November 2021 F2F Plenary and hand over roles then

    - Get Mike to fix role email addresses shortly after that

    - Announce shortly after the Plenary too

(4) PWG November F2F Planning (All)

- Discussion
  - Review draft PWG Plenary slides at SC call on 10/18/21

  - Include the PWG Officer election results announcement in the PWG Plenary deck

(5) 3D / IPP article development (All)
https://formnext.mesago.com/frankfurt/en.html
https://formnext.mesago.com/frankfurt/en/themes-events/digital_days.html
https://amcoe.org/icam2021

- Discussion
  - Paul is working on outline / rough draft of 3dprint.com article
    - To be reviewed at next SC TT call on 10/11/21

  - Formnext on 16-19 November 2021 in Frankfurt, Germany
    - Formnext is an *only* Physical F2F - will have a large trade show

    - Coming up and they do a standards review program (sponsored by ASTM and US Dept of 
      Commerce)

    - Digital presentations need to be ready by end of October 2021

    - Paul submitted a presentation idea 
      - Paul has yet to hear back on whether he will be presenting (remotely)
      - Paul will let us know if he gets approved (likely)
      - Paul may be entitled to or offered a discount

  - Formnext Digital Days on 30 November 2021 to 1 December 2021
    - Formnext Digital Days is a *separate* Virtual F2F 
      - For those who cannot attend live
      
    - Paul may be instead presenting (remotely) at Formnext Digital Days

  - ICAM on 1-5 November 1-5 2021 at JW Marriott in Anaheim, CA
    - International Conference on Additive Manufacturing
  
    - ICAM is a Hybrid F2F (Physical and Virtual)

    - ASTM International's sixth annual flagship event related to standardization, 
      qualification and certification with an emphasis on industry specific requirements 
      addressing the entire AM process chain

    - Collides with our PWG Virtual F2F (same week)
      - Maybe not an issue, because you can watch the recorded sessions...

(6) PWG Website update for Security and Privacy - status (Mike)

- Discussion
  - Not covered - next draft pending
    - Mike still hasn't posted an update and is busy today

    - Remind Mike of existing AI...

(7) OpenPrinting GSoC/GSoD/LFMP 2020 - update (Ira)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/OP-Minutes-20210907.htm
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2021/
- https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/sessions/113/#20210920
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KogjLb1Hb4
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.10
- https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.1b1

- Discussion
  - See OP Monthly Steering Committee call link from 09/07/21 (Ira)

  - See OP Monthly news link from 09/16/21 (Till)
    - OP GSoC 2021 completed successfully in August and all five students passed

  - See Linux Plumbers OP Micro-Conference agenda and recording link from 09/20/21 (Till)
    - OP Micro-conference @ Linux Plumbers 2021 was very successful
    - Aveek / Till / Mike / Bhavna were speakers

  - See CUPS Filters v1.28.10 release notes link from 08/17/21 (Till)

  - PAPPL Retro-fitting Library (Till)
    - Till is working hard on Printer Applications using his Retro-fitting Library
      (PostScript, Ghostscript, Gutenprint, HPLIP)

    - See details in OP Monthly news link from 09/16/21

  - See PAPPL v1.1b1 release notes link from 08/31/21 (Mike)
    - Mike is working hard on PAPPL v1.1 release

  - OP Steering Committee
    - OP monthly calls 08/10/21, 09/07/21, 10/05/21, and upcoming 11/09/21

(8) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2021 - update (Paul)

- Discussion
  - AMSC
    - AMSC made their last call for their database of standards
   
    - Paul needs to turn in our PWG Safe G-Code, IPP 3D Printing v1.1, and also intent-based 
      job ticketing document / content

  - INCITS
    - INCITS AMSP (Additive Manufacturing Services Platform) Workshop on 9 December 2021
      - No info available online (via Google search)
      - How does intent based job ticketing fit into this?
      
    - Partly about recruiting additional members to INCITS
    
    - Lots of HP Inc staff active in INCITS

ACTION: 10/04/21 - Paul to reach out to SME about automated testing for 3D Printing
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/04/21 - Paul to reach out to his Drupa contacts about the PWG sharing links to Drupa videos
- OPEN

(9) Website / Infrastructure Hosting Transition (All)

- Discussion
  - Objective is to move from PWG Linode hosting to another hosting provider that provides 
    some systems administration services (software updates, libraries, etc.)
    - Smith previously suggested ICDSoft but that needs a closer look

  - Mike and Smith are a bit occupied right now 
    - But hopefully they will be able to get to this in Spring 2022?

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

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 11 October 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - review first draft of 3dprint.com article

- SC - Monday 18 October 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - review Plenary slides for PWG November F2F
  - review IPP State of the Union slides for Mopria

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 25 October 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - last chance to review Plenary slides for PWG November F2F

- SC - Monday 1 November 2021
  - CANCELED due to PWG November F2F

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 8 November 2021 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - continue review of Process 4.0 and other updated policy docs

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
- IN PROGRESS
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: 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: 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
- IN PROGRESS
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?
- IN PROGRESS
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"
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 01/14/21 - Smith to ask Michelle for the Antitrust Reminder statement from ISTO and also make sure it is applicable / legitimate for not only USA but is rather applicable worldwide.
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 01/14/21 - Smith / Ira to get updated release information / roadmap for IPP Everywhere Self-Cert from Mike for PWG February 2021 F2F Plenary slides.
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/25/21 - Smith to look into adding toll free calling to PWG WebEx account and discuss in future SC meeting
- OPEN
ACTION: 02/22/21 - Smith to turn off the waiting room stuff and private chat
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 02/22/21 - Smith to inquire about price of WebEx toll-free phone support, and also drop our Zoom account
- OPEN
ACTION: 03/08/21 - Ira / Jeremy to investigate hosting organization alternatives for the PWG
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/05/21 - All - Look up Mike's message PWG website update for security and privacy and please provide comments if you have any
- IN PROGRESS
- Alan and Bill replied with some good detailed feedback
ACTION: 04/19/21 - All to tell Ira / Jeremy about standards hosting organizations you are familiar with that are amenable to the sort of IETF-style of standards development practices
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 05/17/21 - Smith to follow up with Roxanne about the new draft that reorients IPP Encrypted Jobs and Documents (TRUSTNOONE) on S/MIME 4.0
- OPEN
- Smith can use Roxanne's previous / current email address to send this over
ACTION: 06/14/21 - Smith to update Roles & Responsibilities to include...something that he will look up
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/14/21 - Smith to schedule an internal sync meeting on the PWG 3D Printing, Security, and Privacy article draft (Smith / Paul / Mike / other interested parties)
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/14/21 - Smith to schedule online live review of the PWG 3D Printing, Security, and Privacyarticle draft with writer Randy and Anne
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/28/21 - Smith to have IEEE-ISTO send the PWG Anniversary Plaque to Smith and then have IEEE-ISTO invite the SC + Mike + Don Wright + Harry Lewis to the event. Also Jerry Thrasher?
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 08/23/21 - Chair / Vice-Chair: Reach out to client OS vendors to encourage them to attend future F2F events (and to client OS vendors' 3D printing teams too?)
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 08/23/21 - Mike to post a new draft of PWG Website update for Security and Privacy in advance of next SC meeting (09/20/21)
- OPEN
ACTION: 09/20/21 - Smith to announce PWG November F2F by Wednesday 09/22/21 (do the event page first)
- CLOSED
ACTION: 09/20/21 - Paul to share first draft of article outline or rough article on or before 10/11/21 to be reviewed at PWG SC Tiger Team call on 10/11/21
- OPEN