PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 18 September 2023

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Vice Chair)
Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Mike Sweet (Lakeside Robotics, IPP WG Secretary)
Alan Sukert (Independent, 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 Jeremy Leber.

These minutes were prepared by Ira McDonald with draft minutes from Smith Kennedy.

Agenda

(0) Agenda bashing, IP Policy, minute taker

- Review agenda and state PWG IP Policy
  - Ira McDonald and Smith Kennedy as minute takers

- Revised Agenda:

  (1) Administrivia
  (2) Action Item Review
  (3) PWG Media Standardized Names v2.1 - CfO Process Approval (All)
  (4) PWG Hosting Organization - update (Jeremy/Smith/Ira/Mike)
  (5) PWG November F2F - schedule (All)
  (6) PWG Document Deprecate/Obsolete Transitions (All)
  (7) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)
  (8) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
  (9) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
  (10) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2023 - update (Paul)
  (11) Next SC meetings

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20230911.htm

- IPR and Antitrust

- Roll Call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (11 September 2023)
  - Approved

(2) Action Item Review

ACTION:  09/11/23 - Paul/Ira to re-forward the W3C CSS Print query to the IPP WG reflector
- CLOSED

(3) PWG Media Standardized Names v2.1 - CfO Process Approval (All)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-pwgmsn21-20230915-5101.1.pdf

- Discussion
  - PWG Call for Objections started 08/15/23 ended 09/15/23 
    - No objections received

  - Unanimous Consensus 
    - Approved!

  - Mike published and announced MSN v2.1 on 09/18/23

(4) PWG Hosting Organization - update (Jeremy/Smith/Ira/Mike)
https://www.icdsoft.com/
https://github.com/istopwg/website/wiki/2023-Communications-Infrastructure-Update

- Discussion
  - Quick review of all of our current hosting needs per Smith's wiki

  - User account management will be important

  - Can we integrate our teleconferencing needs with our hosting services? 
    - Webex seems to be working better for us than other systems

  - Other infrastructure "nice to haves" - calendar, chat/IM

  - ICDSoft is a good potential landing spot 
    - Smith has good experience with ICDSoft

  - GitHub also may be a good option 
    - Mike has good experience with GitHub
    - May require us to move off of FTP - Mike needs to check on file size limitations

  - Docker images are another potential solution, Mike is going to investigate further

  - We need to make a decision around FTP going forward 
    - We don't want to break old document links, so maybe a static FTP site for existing content

ACTION: 09/18/23 - Mike to put together some summary slides on PWG website hosting options with recommendations
- OPEN

(5) PWG November F2F - schedule (All)
https://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/november-2023-virtual.html
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- Discussion
  - Meeting page created
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ACTION: 09/18/23 - Jeremy to announce PWG November F2F
- CLOSED

(6) PWG Document Deprecate/Obsolete Transitions (All)

- Discussion
  - Moving this topic to a future SC call - ran out of time

(7) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)

- Discussion
  - Seems to be working fine currently

(8) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
https://amcoe.org/event/icam2023/
https://amcoe.org/event/forum23/
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- Discussion
  - ICAM 2023 update
    - All ready to go
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(9) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/OP-Minutes-20230822.htm
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2023/
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.3
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.4
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.5
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.6
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.7
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcups/releases/v3.0b1
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.17
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/2.0rc2
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.3.4
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/releases/tag/v1.0.1
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/lprint/releases/tag/v1.2.0

- Discussion
  - See OP Monthly Steering Committee minutes link from 08/22/23 (Ira)

  - See OP Monthly news link from 09/05/23 (Till)

  - GSoC 2023 (Till/Aveek/Ira)
    - See timeline link above!
    - DONE - 21-28 August 2023 - GSoC contributors submit code - all OP projects were extended
    - TBD September 2023 - Mentors submit final GSoC contributor evaluations - delayed
    - TBD September 2023 - Initial results of Google Summer of Code 2023 announced - delayed

  - See OP CUPS v2.4.3 release notes link from 06/01/23 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)
    - First OP CUPS v2.4.x release since May 2022 - see hot fix quick releases below
    - See OP CUPS v2.4.4 release notes link from 06/06/23 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)
    - See OP CUPS v2.4.5 release notes link from 06/13/23 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)
    - See OP CUPS v2.4.6 release notes link from 06/22/23 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)
    - See OP CUPS v2.4.7 release notes link from 09/20/23 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)

  - See OP CUPS v3 beta1 release notes link from 02/09/23 (Mike)  

  - See CUPS Filters v1.28.17 release notes link from 01/24/23 (Till)

  - See CUPS Filters v2.0rc2 release candidate notes link from 07/04/23 (Till)

  - See PAPPL v1.3.4 release notes link from 09/07/23 (Mike)

  - See PDFio v1.0.1 release notes link from 03/21/22 (Mike)
    - Simple C library for reading and writing any version of PDF files

  - See LPrint v1.2.0 release notes link from 12/31/22 (Mike)

  - OP Steering Committee
    - OP monthly calls 07/11/23, 08/22/23, and upcoming 09/19/23

(10) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2023 - update (Paul)
https://www.concrete.org/ (ACI)
https://www.nationalacademies.org/trb/transportation-research-board (TRB)
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- Discussion
  - No updates
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(11) Next SC meetings

- SC - Monday 25 September 2023
  - Alan will NOT attend (Yom Kippur)
  - Don't discuss web hosting stuff here

- SC - Monday 2 October 2023
  - Regular meeting

- SC - Monday 9 October 2023
  - Regular meeting

- SC - Monday 16 October 2023
  - Regular meeting

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: 07/15/19 - Smith to look for alternate web hosting providers and / or discuss other solutions with Mike Sweet
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 09/09/19 - Smith / Ira to keep nudging forward IPP Everywhere™ plugfest
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/15/20 - Smith to create new "PWG Documents Style Policy" and add line numbering, change logs, and other style recommendations there, so that they don't get lost - also add text discussing templates as well
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 06/15/20 - Smith / Ira to add discussion of change logs in the new draft "PWG Documents Style Policy"
- OPEN
ACTION: 08/22/22 - Jeremy to reach out to Mike for review of PWG Website update for Security and Privacy at a future PWG SC Tiger Team meeting
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 10/31/22 - Paul to post 3D / IPP article next draft for review at an upcoming Tiger Team meeting
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 05/22/23 - Smith to pull in the videos and try to get copies to Till / Aveek, and also investigate video sizes and hosting choices if we choose to do this ourselves
- OPEN
ACTION: 05/22/23 - Alan / Mike to talk together offline about integrating IDS content / domain into the page content
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/26/23 - Smith to get with Mike and Ira to insert copyright pointer page to Process 4.0 to be inserted between first page and the table of contents page in PWG Policy documents, to refer the reader of a Policy document to Process 4.0 rather than the longer form copyright notification
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 07/17/23 - Alan / Paul to reach out to ICAM about status and delays
- IN PROGRESS
- Discussed with Joni, Alan/Paul to follow-through to complete registration
ACTION: 07/31/23 - Jeremy / Smith / Ira to send an email blast to members to ask for updated contact info before Fall 2023 Membership Renewals
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 08/21/23 - Jeremy / Smith to post Process 4.0 approval announcement to pwg-announce
- CLOSED
ACTION: 08/21/23 - Smith to make PWG November 2023 draft agenda w/ IDS on Wednesday (11/15/23) and all IPP sessions on Thursday (11/16/23)
- CLOSED
ACTION: 08/21/23 - Smith to discuss with Mike PWG site migration from VM to ICDSoft
- CLOSED
ACTION: 09/11/23 - Paul/Ira to re-forward the W3C CSS Print query to the IPP WG reflector
- CLOSED