PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 12 December 2022

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, 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)

Preface

This meeting was announced and chaired by Jeremy Leber.

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

Agenda

(0) Agenda bashing, IP Policy, minute taker

- Review agenda and state PWG IP Policy
  - Ira McDonald and Smith Kennedy as minute takers

- Revised Agenda:

  (1) Administrivia
  (2) Action Item Review
  (3) Enterprise Documents WG of Guide Share Europe - status (Paul)
  (4) PWG Website update for Security and Privacy - status (Mike)
  (5) PWG Hosting Organization - update (Ira)
  (6) PWG 2023 Member Dues - status (Jeremy, Smith)
  (7) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)
  (8) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
  (9) PWG Process 4.0 and Policies - status (All)
  (10) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
  (11) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2022 - update (Paul)
  (12) Next SC meetings

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20221128.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (28 November 2022)
  - Approved as posted

(2) Action Item Review

ACTION: 11/28/22 - Smith to add list of PWG policies to the "About the PWG" web page as a
new first subsection or pointer to a new page
- IN PROGRESS

(3) Enterprise Documents WG of Guide Share Europe - status (Paul)
https://www.gse.org/
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/PWG-2022-State-of-the-Union-20220920-d2.pptx
https://www.pwg.org/about.html
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- Discussion
  - Paul is drafting an email to Holger today - should be sent by end of day

  - If no response we can stop tracking this task / effort for now
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(4) PWG Website update for Security and Privacy - status (Mike)
https://pwg.org/security/

- Discussion
  - Next effort is to merge in the IDS concepts into the page's content so that it reflects 
    both IPP and IDS WG work

  - Alan to check in with Mike and try to move it forward

  - Also mention WIMS and Cloud Imaging Model Workgroups (both inactive) on the page

  - Should try to get Mike back to the SC to discuss and rekindle the effort

(5) PWG Hosting Organization - update (Ira)
https://www.standardshub.io/
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- Discussion
  - Still looking around
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(6) PWG 2023 Member Dues - status (Jeremy, Smith)

- Discussion
  - Emails went out on 11/01/22

  - ISTO lost Ira's check again :( very disappointing
    - Ira paid via VISA on 12/13/22

  - Another scorecard is due out in 3 days - at least 2 members will have paid by then and 
    likely many more
    - Smith paid via AMEX
    - Paul paid too

(7) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)

- Discussion
  - Email still having problems

  - Ira gets 2/3 of messages to IPP WG reflector

  - Jeremy still doesn't get messages to SC reflector

(8) 3D / IPP article development - status (All)

- Discussion
  - Paul to reach out to Alan on this article development

  - Probably review will be after the first of the year

(9) PWG Process 4.0 and Policies - status (All)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/wd-pwg-process-4-20221205.pdf
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/wd-pwg-roles-and-responsibilities-policy-20221205.pdf
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/wd-pwg-workgroup-decisions-policy-20221205.pdf
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- Discussion
  - SC Last Call about to start for Process 4.0, Roles & Responsibilities Policy, and Workgroup 
    Decisions Policy
    - Jeremy started SC Last Calls on 12/13/22

  - Goal is to get all draft policies listed in Process 4.0 approved before Process 4.0 goes
    to PWG Last Call

  - We are getting closer!!!
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ACTION: 12/12/22 - Smith to check to see if there are any other draft policies that need to be updated to get them into SC Last Call
- OPEN

(10) OpenPrinting - update (Ira)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/OP-Minutes-20221025.htm
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/OP-Minutes-20221115.htm
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-October-2022/
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-November-2022/
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.3
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.16
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.3.0
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/releases/tag/v1.0.1
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/lprint/releases/tag/v1.1.0

- Discussion
  - See OP Monthly Steering Committee minutes links from 10/25/22, 11/15/22 (Ira)

  - See OP Monthly news links 10/20/22, 11/21/22 (Till)

  - See GSoC 2023 timeline link above!

  - GSoC 2022 summary
    - Coding officially began on 06/13/22 and originally ended on 09/12/22 (see below)

    - 6 of the 8 OP contributors have completed their projects!

    - Applying a new feature of the GSoC! 
      - Coding extended for all 6 contributors by four or six weeks to 10/10/22 or 10/24/22
      - To compensate for contributors exams and restarted classes during GSoC 2022 coding

  - See OP CUPS v2.4.2 release notes link from 05/26/22 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)

  - See CUPS Filters v1.28.16 release notes link from 08/24/22 (Till)
    - First beta of the new generation of CUPS Filters v2.0 is available!

  - See PAPPL v1.3.0 release notes link from 12/02/22 (Mike)

  - See PDFio v1.0.1 release notes link from 03/02/21 (Mike)

  - See LPrint v1.1.0 release notes link from 12/23/21 (Mike)

  - OP Steering Committee
    - OP monthly calls 10/25/22, 11/15/22, 12/13/22, and upcoming 01/10/23

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

- Discussion
  - Paul sent email to Scott Jones (ACI chair of printing with concrete) about doing a 
    proposal for TRB
    - Somewhat asynchronous / hybrid communications model is fun for Paul

  - TIPE 3D Printing 2023 (Technology, Industry, People, Economics)
    - https://www.tipe3dprinting.com/ - Virtual Conference - 24-26 January 2023 
    
    - Women in 3D Printing are co-sponsors
      - https://womenin3dprinting.com/
    
   - SME are co-sponsors
     - https://www.sme.org/

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

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 19 December 2022 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - Document Management Policy draft review
  - PWG Meetings policy draft review

- SC - Monday 26 December 2022 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - CANCELED

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 2 January 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - CANCELED

- SC - Monday 9 January 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - Plenary slides for February 2023 F2F (with recording notice)
  - Approve SC LC for Process 4.0 / R&R / WG Decisions
  - Live edits on docs that have completed SC LC
  - Decide when we are going to start PWG LC on Process 4.0 / R&R / WG Decisions

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 16 January 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - Document reviews

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: 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: 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: 01/24/22 - Smith to contact 3MF Consortium about renewing PWG / 3MF Consortium liaison agreement
- IN PROGRESS
- PWG officers to meet w/ 3MF Consortium in week of 09/26/22
ACTION: 07/25/22 - Paul / Alan to discuss what they are going to present on 3D later in the fall of 2022
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 08/22/22 - Jeremy to reach out to Mike for review of PWG Website update for Security and Privacy at a future PWG SC Tiger Team meeting
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 10/17/22 - Paul to contact Luis at 3MF (and CC Mike and Jeremy) with a description of the AMSC v3.0 opportunity and request immediate collaboration to work together on this in AMSC, but not overtly mention the liaison in the note
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/17/22 - Paul to check in with Holger (Enterprise Documents WG of Guide Share Europe) and see what is needed next
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/17/22 - Jeremy / Ira / Mike / Smith to find a time to have a next discussion with Standards Hub folks
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/17/22 - Smith / Jeremy to update the PWG Members page with PrinterLogic's URL and logo image (and the November 2022 Plenary slide deck too...)
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/31/22 - Alan to poke the email thread on PWG Website update for Security and Privacy with a stick to make sure that it hasn't gone dormant
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/31/22 - Paul to post 3D / IPP article next draft for review at an upcoming Tiger Team meeting
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 11/28/22 - Smith to add list of PWG policies to the "About the PWG" web page as a new first subsection or pointer to a new page
- IN PROGRESS