PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 2 October 2023

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Vice Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Alan Sukert (Independent, IDS WG Chair)
Bill Wagner (TIC, former Cloud WG Chair, former WIMS WG Chair)

Preface

This meeting was announced and chaired by Smith Kennedy.

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

Note: Jeremy Leber and Paul Tykodi were not available for today's meeting.

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) PWG Hosting Organization - defer (Mike/Jeremy/Smith/Ira)
  (4) PWG November F2F - status (All)
  (5) PWG Document Deprecate/Obsolete Transitions (All)
  (6) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)
  (7) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
  (8) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
  (9) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2023 - update (Paul)
  (10) Other Liaisons - status (Smith)
  (11) Next SC meetings

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20230925.htm

- IPR and Antitrust

- Roll Call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (25 September 2023)
  - Approved

(2) Action Item Review
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None
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(3) PWG Hosting Organization - defer (Mike/Jeremy/Smith/Ira)
https://www.icdsoft.com/
https://github.com/istopwg/website/wiki/2023-Communications-Infrastructure-Update
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- Discussion
  - SC on 10/09/23 - Feedback from Mike after more research?
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ACTION: 10/02/23 - Smith to reach out to Mike to remind him of PWG Hosting Organization discussion next week
- OPEN

(4) PWG November F2F - status (All)
https://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/november-2023-virtual.html

- Discussion
  - Nothing updated since last week

  - Review PWG Plenary slides on 10/30/23 (draft) and 11/06/23 (final)

(5) PWG Document Deprecate/Obsolete Transitions (All)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/pwg-document-management-policy.pdf
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- Discussion
  - Need a contribution for update to Document Management Policy

  - Need to review all existing specs for Deprecated/Obsolete/Historic
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ACTION: 10/02/23 - All SC members to make lists of all our specs for Deprecated, Obsolete, Historic potential transitions and share the lists so we can review them in a future meeting
- OPEN
(6) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)
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- Discussion
  - All still working OK
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(7) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
https://amcoe.org/event/icam2023/
https://amcoe.org/event/forum23/
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- Discussion
  - No updates
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(8) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/OP-Minutes-20230919.htm
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2023/
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.7
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcups/releases/v3.0b1
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.17
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.4.0
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/releases/tag/v1.0.1
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/lprint/releases/tag/v1.2.0

- Discussion
  - See OP Monthly Steering Committee minutes link from 09/19/23 (Ira)

  - See OP Monthly news link from 09/05/23 (Till)

  - GSoC 2023 (Till/Aveek/Ira)
    - See timeline link above!
    - DONE - 21-28 August 2023 - GSoC contributors submit code - all OP projects were extended
    - TBD October 2023 - Mentors submit final GSoC contributor evaluations - delayed

  - See OP CUPS v2.4.7 release notes link from 09/20/23 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)

  - See OP CUPS v3 beta1 release notes link from 02/09/23 (Mike)  

  - See CUPS Filters v1.28.17 release notes link from 01/24/23 (Till)

  - See CUPS Filters v2.0.0 final release notes link from 09/22/23 (Till)
    - Just missed cutoff for Ubuntu 23.10 fall release
    - Since Ubuntu 24.04 is LTS (Long-Term Suppport) release, will wait until Ubuntu 24.10

  - See PAPPL v1.4.0 release notes link from 09/28/23 (Mike)

  - See PDFio v1.0.1 release notes link from 03/21/22 (Mike)
    - Simple C library for reading and writing any version of PDF files

  - See LPrint v1.2.0 release notes link from 12/31/22 (Mike)

  - OP Steering Committee
    - OP monthly calls 08/22/23, 09/19/23, and upcoming 10/17/23

(9) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2023 - update (Paul)
https://www.concrete.org/ (ACI)
https://www.nationalacademies.org/trb/transportation-research-board (TRB)
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- Discussion
  - No updates
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(10) Other Liaisons - status (Smith)
https://mopria.org/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-will-block-3rd-party-printer-drivers-in-windows-update/
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- Discussion
  - Smith working on a "Recent Significant Changes in PWG IPP" slide deck to enumerate all the 
    new /changed / deprecated / obsolete attribute changes in IPP made in updated specs in the 
    last 2-3 years
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ACTION: 10/02/23 Jeremy / Smith / Mike to update PWG slide template to use 16:9 aspect ratio (so we don't look like we are all 300 years old...smile)
- OPEN

(11) Next SC meetings

- SC - Monday 9 October 2023
  - Mike to continue Web hosting discussion this week?
  - Paul / Alan to present drafts of ICAM presentation for SC approval

- SC - Monday 16 October 2023
  - Regular meeting

- SC - Monday 23 October 2023
  - Regular meeting

- SC - Monday 30 October 2023
  - Review draft PWG November Plenary slides
  - Alan will be absent (CCUF workshop)
  - ICAM later that week

- SC - Monday 6 November 2023
  - Review final PWG November Plenary slides and agenda

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: 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: 10/31/22 - Paul to post 3D / IPP article next draft for review at an upcoming Tiger Team meeting
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 05/22/23 - Smith to pull in the videos and try to get copies to Till / Aveek, and also investigate video sizes and hosting choices if we choose to do this ourselves
- OPEN
ACTION: 05/22/23 - Alan / Mike to talk together offline about integrating IDS content / domain into the page content
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/26/23 - Smith to get with Mike and Ira to insert copyright pointer page to Process 4.0 to be inserted between first page and the table of contents page in PWG Policy documents, to refer the reader of a Policy document to Process 4.0 rather than the longer form copyright notification
- CLOSED
ACTION: 07/17/23 - Alan / Paul to reach out to ICAM about status and delays
- CLOSED
ACTION: 07/31/23 - Jeremy / Smith / Ira to send an email blast to members to ask for updated contact info before Fall 2023 Membership Renewals
- CLOSED
ACTION: 09/18/23 - Mike to put together some summary slides on PWG website hosting options with recommendations
- OPEN
ACTION: 09/18/23 - Jeremy to announce PWG November F2F
- CLOSED