This meeting was announced and chaired by Smith Kennedy. These minutes were prepared by Ira McDonald with help from Smith.
- Reviewed agenda and PWG IP Policy - Ira McDonald as minute taker - Proposed Agenda: (1) Status of IPP Self-Cert - PWG LC ends Friday 12/18/15 - 4 responses (need 8 for quorum) - probable 30-day extension (2) Status of IPP Charter - PWG Vote ends Friday 12/25/15 - 5 votes (need 7 for quorum) - probable 30-day extension (3) February F2F - moved to Wed/Thu 02/10, 02/11 - stability of F2F (or Virtual) meeting dates for travel booking? (4) Virtual F2F meetings in 2016 - suggested dates? - extended PWG participation? - PR outreach w/ Anne Price? (5) PWG 2016 planning - PR, trade press articles, industry conferences?
- Review minutes of SC on 3 December 2015 - Approved as posted - See 'Previous Action Items' below
- Discussion - PWG LC ends Friday 12/18/15 - 6 responses (need 8 for quorum) - probable 30-day extensionACTION: Ira to send PWG LC extension for IPP Self-Cert (if needed)
- Discussion - PWG Formal Vote ends Friday 12/25/15 - 6 votes (need 7 for quorum) - probable 30-day extensionACTION: Ira to send PWG vote extension for IPP WG Charter (if needed)
- Discussion
- NOTE - PWG February F2F meeting moved to second week of February
- Moved F2F to Wed/Thu 02/10, 02/11 due to Super Bowl on 02/07/15
- Concerns about stability of published meeting dates
- Need for all F2F meeting dates for travel booking?
- Need to add a disclaimer to the annual meetings page about
tentative dates until an official announcement
- Add a link to a secondary page with other groups' schedules
- Consensus
- Need to have stable dates 2 months before each meeting
- consider dates to be tentative until a meeting page is setup
- Smith will write up a suggested guideline for SC
- how to setup a PWG F2F page (physical or virtual)
- Disclaimer saying "before there is a dedicated page to the meeting,
consider the dates to be tentative"
- Make sure the meeting page is created and posted 10 weeks before
the event
- Pre-meeting planning for each F2F
- 11 weeks before, do homework on event date conflicts
ACTION: Smith to update 2016 PWG meeting page for "tentative" weeks
and add link to secondary page with other groups' schedules
- Discussion
- Virtual F2F - tiger-team one-day
- treated as a WG meeting
- should have a Plenary for PWG Process (overlap w/ PWG Last Call)
- Physical F2F
- treated as an all PWG F2F
- Maintain the same discipline and process for Virtual F2F as for
Physical F2F to ensure member engagement
- Sites for future Physical F2F?
- Topics for future Physical/Virtual F2F?
- Dates for future Virtual F2F?
- Possibly June (between April and August)
- Defer planning of Virtual F2F meetings for 3D participant input
- Level of engagement and active participants may change w/ 3D
- Having a formal meeting scheduled tends to encourage spec progress
- feedback loop with WG participation
- Extended PWG participation?
- PR outreach w/ Anne Price?
- Consensus
- Keep same discipline for meeting planning as for physical F2F
- Discussion
- PR, trade press articles, industry conferences?
- F2F page and process improvements
- What additions or changes would help the PWG's completed work have
more impact?
- Infrastructure work?
- Reference implementations?
- Test suites (e.g., 'ipptool' scripts, stuff for IPP Imp Guide)
- Web site hosting - PWG should fund - don't want to move to ISTO!
- Web master - PWG should fund
- Semantic Model XML schema maintenance - PWG should fund
- Should we consider raising the fees?
- Increased credibility and scope of activities
- Decreased membership impact?
- Consensus
- Defer 2016 planning (e.g., virtual F2F dates) until February F2F
- Discussion
- ISTO has never fast-tracked an IEEE full standard from a program
- they don't know how
- IEEE suggested we create a PAR (for an IEEE WG)
- Mike, Ira, Smith agreed this is too much effort for PWG people
- But the IEEE folks might *change* the PWG Standard (technically)
- Consensus
- Keep as PWG Standard
- Mike to draft a "thanks, but no thanks" note to IEEE folks
ACTION: Mike to draft "thanks, but no thanks" to IEEE folks for not
publishing PWG 5100.12 in IEEE catalog
- NEW TIME - Thursday at 12pm Eastern! - SC - Thursday 14 January 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern - NEW TIME - request for Plenary topics and slides for F2F - SC - Thursday 28 January 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern (tentative) - NEW TIME - review Plenary slides for February PWG F2F - Plenary - Wednesday 10 February 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern - NEW DATE - February PWG F2F in Cupertino, CA (hosted by Apple)