Printer Working Group Plenary

December 16, 1998

Meeting Attendees

 

 

1394

Plenary

IPP

UPDF

Richard Shockey

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x

 

Bill Wyman

Adobe

 

 

 

x

Abdallah Qaisi

Apple

 

 

 

x

Patrick Powell

Astart

 

 

x

 

Maulik Desai

Auco

 

x

x

x

Nick Webb

Auco

 

x

x

x

Takashi Isoda

Canon

x

 

 

 

Atsushi Nakamura

Canon

x

x

 

 

Katsuaki Sekiguchi

Canon

 

x

x

 

Akihiro Shimura

Canon

x

 

 

 

Osamu Hirata

Canon Business Machines

x

 

 

 

Lee Farrell

Canon Information Systems

x

x

x

x

Michael Yeung

Canon Information Systems

 

x

x

x

Peter Johansson

Congruent Software

x

 

 

 

Ron Bergman(1)

Dataproducts

 

x

x

x

Greg LeClair(2)

Epson

x

x

x

 

Mike Moldovan

Genoa

x

 

x

 

Amar Rajan

Genoa

 

 

x

 

Brian Batchelder

Hewlett Packard

x

 

x

 

Alan Berkema

Hewlett Packard

x

 

 

 

Ben Brezinski

Hewlett Packard

 

 

 

x

Scott Bonar

Hewlett Packard

x

 

 

 

Laurie Lasslo

Hewlett Packard

x

 

 

x

Sandra Matts(3)

Hewlett Packard

 

 

 

x

Greg Shue

Hewlett Packard

x

 

 

 

Michael Wu

Kodak

 

x

x

x

Stuart Rowley

Kyocera

 

 

x

x

Jerry Thrasher

Lexmark

x

 

 

 

Don Wright(4)

Lexmark

 

x

x

x

Mike Fenelon

Microsoft

x

 

 

 

Hugo Parra

Novell

 

x

x

x

Charles Kong

Panasonic

 

 

x

x

Eric Random

Peerless

 

 

x

x

Fumio Nagasaka

Seiko Epson

x

 

 

 

Randy Turner

Sharp

x

x

x

 

Bob Morford

SIS Microelectronics

x

 

 

 

Mauro DePonti

ST Micro Electronics

x

 

 

 

Bob Herriot

Sun

 

 

x

x

Larry Stein

Warp 9 Communications

x

x

 

 

Tom Hastings

Xerox

 

x

x

 

Carl-Uno Manros(5)

Xerox

 

x

x

 

Rick Yardumian

Xerox

 

 

 

x

Pete Zehler

Xerox

 

x

x

 

Norbert Schade

Xionics

 

 

 

x

 

(1) JMP Chairman

(2) 1394 PWG Chairman

(3) UPDF Chairman

(4) PWG Chairman

(5) IPP Chairman

 

Administrivia

Wednesday morning, Don Wright opened the PWG meeting, and provided details for the next meeting:

He also referenced the 1999 schedule for future PWG meetings:

 

Status Reports

Each of the Project Chairs (or appointed spokesperson) provided a brief status of the individual projects.

    1. Printer MIB Project (PMP)

      2. Chris Wellens and Lloyd Young (PMP co-Chairs) are now trying to get the Printer MIB published as a Proposed Standard instead of Draft Standard. No estimates were given on the timeframe for completion.

    2. Job Monitoring MIB Project (JMP)

      3. The Job Monitoring MIB document has been given a Last Call, but recently Xerox proposed a new change. This proposal will need to be reviewed for acceptance. Ron Bergman is concerned that adding the modification might delay things with the IETF.

    3. Finisher (FIN) MIB Project

      4. The Finisher MIB has been given a Last Call and it received no comments. It is now considered complete. The group wants to submit the document to the IETF together with the Printer MIB.

    4. Universal Printer Description File Format (UPDF) Project

      5. No status was reported.

    5. Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) Project

      6. Carl-Uno reported that 45 people attended the IPP session held at the IETF Plenary meeting (December 9.) Only 4 of the attendees were PWG members, but many IFax WG members were present.

      At the IETF meeting, Carl-Uno reviewed the latest set of IPP documents. During discussions, the IETF Area Director admitted that he had not yet reviewed the documents. He made very vague comments that seemed to suggest that there might still be some obstacles in gaining IETF acceptance. He would not give a date estimate for the next step by the IESG.

      A discussion about IPP as a Fax Service occurred during the IETF IPP session. Richard Shockey presented his paper on the topic. It was suggested that this effort should have its own IETF WG Charter. Several of the attendees will try to coordinate a "Birds of a Feather" meeting at the next IETF Plenary.

    6. 1394 PWG

Several additional items have been agreed on the Model and Command document for the 1394 Printing Device profile document. Greg LeClair reported that he believes things are nearing completion on the project. He thinks that the group will be able to wrap up the specification within the next few meetings.

PWG Process

There have been a few comments on the reflector about the IP section proposal submitted by Canon Information Systems. The most significant issue is that the PWG does not exist as a legal entity. As such, it is difficult for it to own Intellectual Property. This raises the question, "Should we incorporate?"

Larry Stein volunteered to report on the implications/requirements of incorporating.

DMTF CIM Presentation

At the January PWG meeting, Andrea Westein (?) from Microsoft will be presenting an hour-long presentation on the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) "Common Information Model."

Liaison Reports

No liaison reports were given.

PWG Plenary meeting adjourned.