PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 6 May 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 Last Calls - Status (Smith/Ira)
  (3) PWG August Virtual F2F Agenda - Topics (All)
  (4) Future of PWG / PR efforts - Status (Smith/Ira)
  (5) Open Printing GSoC 2019 / new website - Status (Ira)
  (6) ISO JTC1 SC28 liaison - Status (Alan)
  (7) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
  (8) Other liaisons (3MF, Mopria, etc.) - Status (Smith)
  (9) PWG Website - Status (Smith)
  (10) Next SC meetings
  (11) Action Items Review (All)

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20190422.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (22 April 2019)
  - Approved as posted

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

- Discussion
  - PWG Last Call (second) for IPP Authentication Methods v1.0
    - Ends 11 May 2019
    - Quorum has been achieved
    - To be published as PWG Best Practice

  - PWG Call for Objections for IPP Document Object v1.1
    - Ends 21 May 2019
    - No objections so far
    - Quorum has de-facto been achieved because it is a Call for Objections
    - To be published as PWG Candidate Standard

  - PWG Formal Approval for PWG Safe G-Code Subset for 3D Printing v1.0
    - Restarted 5 May 2019 (w/ corrected URLs) ends 4 June 2019
    - Editorial change: "safe-gcode-supported" to be renamed to "pwg-safe-gcode-supported" 
      per Mike Sweet
    - Quorum has been achieved as of (05/07/19)
      - 6 YES, 0 No, 0 Abstain
      - Quorum is 25% of 24 voting members = 6 votes
    - Do those that have voted have to re-vote?
      - No, this is really an *extension*, not a restart or second ballot
    - To be published as PWG Best Practice

(3) PWG August Virtual F2F Agenda - Topics (All)
https://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/

- Discussion
  - 28-29 August 2019 vF2F (Wed/Thu)
    - Agenda draft in plain text file presented by Smith

  - Topics to include:
    - System Service - will this be in vote by late August? Leave it at an hour
    - 3D Printing Metadata BoF?
      - PWG Semantics and job ticketing being embedded in 3D files themselves as an
        alternative transport / encoding to using IPP
      - Would the 3D Printing Topics be shrunk a bit to give time to this? Paul says yes
    - 3D PDF and the third 3D PDF embedded content issue (i.e., increasing complexity)

  - What about spreading it across 3 days?
    - 1 day for 2D
    - 1 day for 3D
    - 1 day for IDS and IPP security / privacy / encryption related topics (encrypted 
      jobs and documents, job accounting)
    - Decide on the ordering of days: 3D on day 2 and IDS / security on day 3? 
      or vice versa?

  - Missing topics in first plain text draft
    - 3D Metadata
    - 3D PDF (maybe?)
    - 3D and concrete? 
      - Might not be much to show in August but there should be more in November 
      - show the plan, anyway
    - IPP 3D Everywhere certification program BoF? (Maybe...)
    - PWG 5100.3 - IPP Production Printing Extensions v2.0 (PPX)
    - PWG 5100.13 - IPP Job and Printer Extensions Set 3 (JPS3)
      - Needs updates for alignment w/ Job Extensions v2.0 and IPP Everywhere v1.1
    - Canon IPP feature additions

ACTION: 05/06/19 - Smith to ask PWG Announce about August 2019 vF2F Tue-Thu versus Wed-Fri?
- OPEN
ACTION: 05/06/19 - Smith to write a new plain text draft for 3-day August 2019 vF2F
- OPEN

(4) Future of PWG / PR efforts - Status (Smith/Ira)
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- Discussion
  - Discussion of guidelines and dialogs on reflector (some confusion and 
    misunderstandings)

  - Brief discussion of email threads discussing PWG PR and engagement with external 
    entities
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ACTION: 05/06/19 - Smith to ask the SC to make a list of the things we are anticipating wanting to be announced as PR announcements, and get that to Anne Price so that she can develop the timeline for when they should be released
- OPEN

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

- Discussion
  - GSoC 2019 timeline
    - DONE - 25 March - Student application period begins

    - DONE - 9 April - Student application deadline

    - DONE - 6 May - Accepted student proposals announced

    - 6-27 May - Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin

    - 27 May - Coding officially begins!

  - Sometime today (05/06/19) Google will announce the slot allocations for all GSoC 
    mentor orgs
    - GSoC is believed to have given Linux OP all 5 slots - if true, that is awesome!

(6) ISO JTC1 SC28 liaison - Status (Alan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria
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- Discussion
  - No updates
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(7) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)

- Discussion
  - 3D report at August 2019 vF2F will include an update from RAPID (which is May 21) 
    and the fallout of that conference
    - 3D PDF issues

  - No other updates

(8) Other liaisons (3MF, Mopria, etc.) - Status (Smith)

- Discussion
  - No updates since last week's PWG F2F

(9) PWG Website - Status (Smith)
https://github.com/istopwg/website/wiki/2019-New-PWG-Site
https://istopwg.github.io/
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- Discussion
  - No updates
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ACTION: 05/06/19 - Smith to ask Jessica (IEEE-ISTO) about whether "managed hosting" would help PWG with GDPR compliance
- OPEN

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

- SC - Monday 20 May 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting
  - Paul will be absent (on a plane heading to RAPID)

- SC - Monday 3 June 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting

- SC - Monday 17 June 2019 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting

(11) Action Items Review (All)

- Discussion
  - Deferred (but 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: Ira to update "pwg-namespace-policy-20060112.txt" - add "white" prefix and update project and document lifecycles
- IN PROGRESS
- pwg-namespace-policy-20160820.txt is first draft
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 to request SC review of pwg-namespace-policy-20160820.txt before an SC meeting
- 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: 01/28/19 - Smith to get Anne Price to draft and release a press release about the new 3MF/PWG liaison agreement whenever it is signed
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 02/25/19 - Smith/Mike to get mailman working reliably again for SC and IPP
- OPEN
ACTION: 02/25/19 - Paul to reach out to MT Connect on behalf of PWG
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/22/18 - All to look at Mike's final cs-draft of IPP 3D Printing Extensions v1.1 to approve it for publishing
- CLOSED
ACTION: 04/22/18 - Ira to create final cs-draft for PWG MFD Alerts v1.1
- CLOSED
ACTION: 04/22/18 - Smith: Beat the bushes for last call responses for IPP Authentication Methods v1.0 to achieve quorum
- CLOSED
ACTION: 04/22/18 - Smith: Beat the bushes for formal approval responses for PWG Safe G-Code Subset for 3D Printing v1.0 to achieve quorum
- CLOSED
- PWG Formal Approval *restarted* (w/ corrected URLs) on 5 May 2019 ends 4 June 2019
ACTION: 04/22/19 - Smith to ping Anne Price for calendar / road map for PR releases
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/22/19 - Smith to schedule a follow-up call with Anne Price on PWG PR efforts
- OPEN