PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 7 October 2019

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Alan Sukert (Xerox, PWG Vice Chair, IDS WG Chair)
Paul Tykodi (TCS, IPP WG Co-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 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) PWG Officer "Elections" (All)
  (3) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
  (4) PWG November F2F Agenda - Review (Smith)
  (5) PWG Last Calls - Status (Smith/Alan/Ira)
  (6) Future of PWG / PR efforts - Status (Smith/Ira)
  (7) Open Printing GSoC 2019 / new website - Status (Ira)
  (8) ISO JTC1 SC28 liaison - Status (Alan)
  (9) Other liaisons (3MF, Mopria, etc.) - Status (Smith)
  (10) PWG Website - Status (Smith)
  (11) Review draft IPP Registration Policy
  (12) Next SC meetings
  (13) Action Items - Review (All)

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20190923.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call
  - All present (smile)

- Review minutes of SC meeting (23 September 2019)
  - Approved as posted

(2) PWG Officer "Elections" (All)
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- Discussion
  - No others have reached out to the PWG SC to nominate themselves or others as 
    candidates for PWG officership

  - Chair: Smith is willing and able to hold the Chair position for a third term if 
    there are no objections

  - Vice-Chair: Alan would prefer that he not hold the position for a third term
    - Candidate TBD

  - Secretary: Ira willing and able to continue his position as Secretary
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ACTION: 10/07/19 - Smith to query known parties about their willingness to volunteer for the PWG Vice-Chair position, copy the SC, and say that they could / should recommend candidates
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/07/19 - Smith to query to pwg-announce for volunteers for the PWG Officer election in general (send draft to SC list before posting) - responses should be sent no later than 1 November 2019
- OPEN

(3) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)

- Discussion
  - INCITS
    - Joni @ ISTO and Lynn @ INCITS working together to get that done
    - Signer from PWG side needs to be from ISTO
    - Call from previous Action Item was not needed - log jam was cleared

  - Upcoming engagement (Paul)
    - 25 October 2019: ACI (American Concrete Institute) event on 3D printing and 3D 
      printing metadata
      - Paul and Mike are working on a deck and a prototype / demo
      - Paul to attend and present
        - Promote the ISO breakout session below on 3D PDF metadata to happen in 
          mid-December

    - 13-14 November 2019: NIST Ceramic 3D printing event in Washington D.C. 
      - Paul won't be able to make it

    - 15 November 2019: U Mass Amherst concrete printing symposium
      - Paul to attend

    - 20-21 November 2019: Transportation Research Board
      - http://www.trb.org/Calendar/Blurbs/177388.aspx
      - First International Conference on 3D Printing and Transportation in Wash, DC
      - 3D Printing conference across all verticals in transportation

    - 14 December 2019: ISO having a conference second week in December in Wash, DC
      - Also meet on 3D PDF and metadata?
      - Working with DARPA

    - 16-26 June 2020: Drupa 2020 in Dusseldorf, Germany
      - https://www.drupa.com/en/drupa_global/drupa_global_Events/Overview
      - Paul is still following up on this

ACTION: 10/07/19 - Smith to check with Lynn and Joni on status of INCITS liaison
- OPEN

(4) PWG November F2F Agenda - Review (Smith)

- Discussion
  - https://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/november-2019-virtual.html
    - Agenda presented looks good (fix the next steps time)

(5) PWG Last Calls - Status (Smith/Ira)

- Discussion
  - IPP System Service v1.0
     - Waiting for LCRC review at Thursday IPP WG call (completed)
     - PWG Formal Vote to span the November 2019 F2F

(6) Future of PWG / PR efforts - Status (Smith/Ira)

- Discussion
  - Anne published a PR release today announcing IPP Authentication Methods, Job 
    Extensions v2.0, Document Object v1.1, and MFD Alerts v1.1

  - Next steps
    - Another 3D announcement talking about all of these meetings and engagement
    - System Service, IPP Everywhere v1.1 (late 2019?)

(7) Open Printing GSoC 2019 / new website - Status (Ira)

- Discussion
  - OP new website is now up and live
    - https://openprinting.github.io
    - Go check it out!

(8) ISO JTC1 SC28 liaison - Status (Alan)
https://www.iso.org/committee/45314.html (ISO JTC1 SC28 - Office Equipment)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria
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- Discussion
  - No updates
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(9) Other liaisons (3MF, Mopria, etc.) - Status (Smith)

- Discussion
  - No updates

  - Smith still needs to do the 2019 IPP State of the Union deck!!!

(10) PWG Website - Status (Smith)
https://www.icdsoft.com/

- Discussion
  - Waiting on the Registration Policy to be finalized

  - Or is it? 
    - The naming / structure for durable links to files containing email based 
      registrations seems stable

(10) Review draft IPP Registration Policy
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/ipp-registry-policy-20190923.docx
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/ipp-registry-policy-20191011.docx
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- Discussion
  - Since the naming / structure for durable links to files containing email based 
    registrations seems stable, we should get Mike to update the links in the IANA 
    Registry to use the links to the durable files
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ACTION: 10/07/19 - Smith to review latest state of IPP Registrations Policy, post latest version, and solicit feedback from SC
- CLOSED
ACTION: 10/07/19 - Smith to schedule an off-cycle review of IPP Registrations Policy
- OPEN

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

- SC - Monday 21 October 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - CANCELED - Smith won't be able to attend

- SC - Monday 4 November 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - review draft Plenary slides

- SC - Monday 18 November 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - Keep it for final PWG F2F prep but may cancel

(13) Action Items - Review (All)

- Discussion
  - Deferred (but action item status updated - see below)

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 to write an outline of the structure of Process 4.0 for SC review
- OPEN
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: 10/08/18 - SC to review PWG Officer Job Descriptions and provide feedback
- IN PROGRESS
- Smith sent a new draft
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/pwg-staff-and-their-responsibilities-2018-07-16.docx
- Smith to read Bill's response email on PWG Officer Job Descriptions and post another draft
- Related to "Future of PWG" topic
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: 12/17/18 - Alan to contact Paul Jeran (HP) about a PWG liaison with the US TAG of SC 28 (administered by INCITIS) and communicate that we are intending to pursue a liaison with other ISO JTC1 SCs in a similar fashion
- OPEN
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: 06/17/19 - Smith to create the PWG IPP Status 2019 deck (for Mopria and others)
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to check in with Jeremy Reitz about Mopria status for 2019 and ask whether they want an PWG IPP 2019 Update for presentation at a Mopria F2F
- IN PROGRESS
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: 07/29/19 - Paul to email PWG SC about establishing a liaison between PWG and 3D PDF Consortium - purpose is resolving the delta / filling in the gaps between PWG semantics and ASME Y.1447 semantics so that everything works well in 3D PDF
- CLOSED
ACTION: 07/29/19 - Ira to produce an updated draft of pwg-namespace-policy for review at a future SC meeting
- OPEN
ACTION: 08/28/19 - Smith/Ira to start a new thread on Process 4.0 framework
- OPEN
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: 09/09/19 - Paul to look into what is needed to attend Drupa 2020
- IN PROGRESS
- Drupa folks haven't responded to two notes from Paul
ACTION: 09/09/19 - Paul to ask AMSC if they will be attending Drupa 2020 - AMSC attends to make sure that standards are not being created that are unduly focused on particular environments, locales, etc.
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 09/09/19 - Smith to update IPP registration policy to include the durable PDF links and review with SC (does NOT require an update to Process 3.0 / Process 4.0)
- CLOSED
ACTION: 09/23/19 - Smith to setup a call with Joni Sterlacci and Paul to see if we can cut through the fog to see the log jam w/ INCITS liaison and discuss how to clear that log jam
- CLOSED
ACTION: 09/23/19 - Smith to ask Mike to update the charter link on IDS WG page
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ids/charter/ch-ids-charter-20190826.pdf
- CLOSED
ACTION: 09/23/19 - Smith to announce new IDS WG charter
- CLOSED
ACTION: 09/23/19 - Smith to make sure PWG PR effort doesn't lose momentum
- IN PROGRESS