Printer Working Group Plenary

April 14, 1999

  1. Meeting Attendees
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    1394

    Plenary

    IPP

    UPDF

    Randy Turner

    2 Wire

     

    x

     

     

    Charlotte Ersmarker

    Axis Communications

    x

    x

    x

     

    Takashi Isoda

    Canon

    x

     

     

     

    Akihiro Shimura

    Canon

    x

     

     

     

    Katsuaki Sekiguchi

    Canon

     

    x

    x

     

    Shigeru Ueda

    Canon

    x

    x

    x

     

    Osamu Hirata

    Canon Business Machines

    x

     

     

     

    Lee Farrell

    Canon Information Systems

    x

    x

    x

    x

    William Zhang

    Canon Information Systems

     

    x

     

    x

    Richard Hart

    Compaq

     

    x

    x

    x

    Bill Wagner

    DPI/NetSilicon

     

    x

    x

    x

    Mike Moldovan

    Genoa

    x

    x

    x

     

    Shivaun Albright

    Hewlett Packard

     

    x

    x

     

    Brian Batchelder

    Hewlett Packard

    x

    x

     

    x

    Scott Bonar

    Hewlett Packard

    x

     

     

     

    Ben Brezinski

    Hewlett Packard

     

    x

     

    x

    Laurie Lasslo

    Hewlett Packard

    x

     

     

     

    Sandra Matts(1)

    Hewlett Packard

     

    x

     

    x

    Greg Shue

    Hewlett Packard

    x

     

     

     

    Ron Bergman(2)

    Hitachi-Koki

     

    x

    x

    x

    Harry Lewis(3)

    IBM

     

    x

    x

    x

    Peter Lefkin

    ISTO

     

    x

     

     

    Andrew Salem

    ISTO

     

    x

     

     

    Yuji Sasaki

    Japan Computer Industry

    x

    x

    x

    x

    Michael Wu

    Kodak

     

    x

     

    x

    Stuart Rowley

    Kyocera

     

    x

    x

    x

    Jerry Thrasher

    Lexmark

    x

     

     

     

    Don Wright(4)

    Lexmark

     

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    x

    x

    Hugo Parra

    Novell

     

    x

    x

    x

    Mabry Dozier

    QMS

     

    x

    x

    x

    Sang-wook Ye

    Samsung

     

    x

    x

     

    Fumio Nagasaka

    Seiko Epson

    x

     

     

     

    Larry Stein

    Warp 9 Communications

    x

    x

     

     

    Tom Hastings

    Xerox

     

    x

    x

     

    Bob Herriot

    Xerox

     

    x

    x

     

    Carl-Uno Manros(5)

    Xerox

     

    x

    x

     

    Rick Yardumian

    Xerox

     

    x

     

    x

    Pete Zehler

    Xerox

     

    x

    x

     

    Don Criscione

    Xionics

     

    x

     

    x

    (1) UPDF Chairman

    (2) JMP Chairman

    (3) FIN Chairman

    (4) PWG Chairman

    (5) IPP Chairman

  3. Administrivia

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

Don also referenced the 1999 schedule for future PWG meetings:

Jul 5-9

Copenhagen, Denmark

Aug 16-20

Alaska (Joint PWG/PWG-C)

Sep 27-Oct 1

Denver, CO

Nov 1-5

Raleigh, NC

Dec 13-17

Los Angeles/Santa Barbara area

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

    1. Printer MIB Project (PMP)
    2. Don reported that the Host Resources MIB still hasn’t progressed to a Draft Standard within the IETF. (Previously the HR MIB Chairman had committed to complete all necessary paperwork by the end of February. This has not been done.) Because the Printer MIB is dependent on this occurring, it continues to be blocked by the IETF process. The current co-chairs of the Printer MIB have appealed to the IESG that the HR MIB Chairman is not doing his job adequately—and are trying to take on this responsibility. Unbelievably, the Printer MIB has apparently been sitting idle (without significant modification) for over a year while waiting for the advancement of the HR MIB.

    3. Job Monitoring MIB Project (JMP)
    4. The Job MIB is also waiting in the IETF process. No dates for "next steps" were provided. One person commented that there is some question about whether the Job MIB is included in the Printer MIB WG Charter. The topic of interoperability testing was raised. Harry Lewis said that IBM has an implementation that could be made available for testing purposes. Although an interoperability test "bake off" is possible (and may occur in the future), no specific details are currently planned.

    5. Finisher (FIN) MIB Project
    6. Because the Finisher MIB is dependent on the Printer MIB, it is also waiting for the Printer MIB progression (which is waiting on the HR MIB.)

    7. Universal Printer Description File Format (UPDF) Project
    8. Sandra Matts reported that an initial specification has been started. Two separate subgroups have been created for User interface and Imaging. It is expected that the subgroups will be able to achieve more efficient progress.

    9. Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) Project
    10. Carl-Uno reported that the Bake-off was very successful. 24 companies attended (including several that have never attended IPP meetings.) The Bake off results have been posted, including several Issues that were generated during the testing process. The group is currently in the process of addressing the remaining Issues that have not yet been resolved.

      Genoa is interested in creating an IPP test suite, and plans to coordinate this effort with the IPP WG.

      The IPPv1.0 document suite is "in the IETF Editor’s RFC queue." Although the IESG has approved the documents for Experimental RFC status, they still need to pass through the Editor before they get assigned RFC numbers.

    11. 1394 PWG

    Brian Batchelder reported that two proposals for modification to the Disconnect process were given, and a review of a proposed sample API was also accomplished.

    Don Wright asked for an estimate of the status on achieving a complete draft of the specification. Brian guessed that a "page turner" review of a draft profile document could be possible for the July meeting.

  3. ISTO – IEEE

Peter Lefkin presented some slides on the background of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (ISTO), its purpose and its relationship with the IEEE. The ISTO wants to provide some services to the PWG that will enable it to generate its own standards documents more easily. Also, by taking advantage of the IEEE infrastructure, the ISTO can provide an "umbrella corporation" status for the PWG. This will give the PWG indemnification benefits similar to the process of incorporation. Finally, the ISTO offers various services that the PWG could choose to contract on a "pay as you use" basis, including:

Specific benefits that were identified for the PWG:

Although Peter did not have any specific price information, he said that estimates could easily be generated after more detailed discussions regarding the PWG activity and interests. Regardless of the specific pricing, it will probably be necessary for the PWG member companies to pay some sort of membership dues and/or ongoing meeting fee charges.

Peter will provide a more detailed estimate for services after future discussions.

For meeting planning/coordination, Peter explained that the ISTO would be able to:

The meeting services are estimated at $1,000 per meeting plus the direct costs of the hotel. The ISTO will not impose any restrictions on the meeting location.

There were several questions raised about how the ISTO-PWG might work with the IETF in the future (if desired.) According to Peter, the ISTO would not place any restrictions on what the PWG wants to do in this area.

Contact information:

Don Wright proposed that a designated subgroup of the PWG should be authorized to deal with the ISTO to create a more detailed draft document for structuring a "ISTO-PWG" entity. He would like to take the next step toward examining the possibility. No commitment will be made, but the subgroup activity would be focused on developing a final contract that would be voted on by the PWG members for final approval. Hopefully, the next step will result in a detailed "membership" contract that would be appropriate for corporate lawyer review.

Based on a straw poll vote, there was no opposition to Don’s proposal. Don asked that if anyone is interested in participating in this effort, to contact him via e-mail.

PWG Plenary adjourned.