PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 17 June 2024

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Vice Chair)
Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
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 Jeremy Leber.

Agenda

(0) Agenda bashing, IP Policy, minute taker

- Review agenda and state PWG IP Policy
  - Ira McDonald and Jeremy Leber as minute takers

- Revised Agenda:

  (1) Administrivia
  (2) Action Item Review
  (3) PWG Hosting Organization - status (Mike/Jeremy/Smith/Ira)
  (4) SC workflow while IRA is away (All)
  (5) PWG August 2024 Agenda - status (All)
  (6) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)
  (7) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
  (8) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
  (9) PWG 3D PR Opportunities - update (Paul)
  (10) Other Liaisons - status (Smith/Mike)
  (11) Membership Dues - status (Jeremy)
  (12) Old Action Item Review (All)
  (13) Next SC meetings

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20240610.htm

- IPR and Antitrust

- Roll Call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (10 June 2024)
  - Approved

(2) Action Item Review

ACTION:  06/10/24 - Jeremy to ask Mike to give an update on PWG Hosting Organization in an 
upcoming SC meeting 
- CLOSED

ACTION: 06/10/24 - Jeremy to follow-up with Alan about IDS session plan for PWG August 2024
- CLOSED

ACTION: 06/10/24 - Smith to look at "IPP next steps" from PWG May 2024 and post a draft agenda for PWG August 2024
- CLOSED

ACTION: 06/10/24 - Smith to investigate interim solution (static page) for email subscribers
- OPEN

(3) PWG Hosting Organization - status (Mike/Jeremy/Smith/Ira)
https://www.icdsoft.com/
https://github.com/istopwg/website/wiki/2023-Communications-Infrastructure-Update
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- Discussion
  - No updates (Mike focused on IPP OAuth for now)
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(4) SC workflow while IRA is away (All)

- Discussion
  - Ira out beginning 7/8 for extended period (until end of 2024)

  - Need to make sure to add context around Action Items for full minutes

  - Jeremy and Smith can cover producing the full minutes

  - OP monthly calls are suspended (at least for Ira) for the rest of the year
    - OK to not put OP/GSOC updates in the SC minutes

(5) PWG August 2024 Agenda - status (All)

- Discussion
  - Alan needs Wednesday IDS session (out of town Thursday)
    - Schedule adjusted accordingly

  - Smith to post tentative agenda and we can adjust further as neede

(6) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)

- Discussion
  - Smith subscribed person from Canon

  - Smith still working on AI for future subscription solution

(7) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/informational/bp-pwgsafegcode10-20190604-5199.7.pdf
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- Discussion
  - Paul and Alan to synch

  - Webinar plans being discussed - how do we need to handle? 
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(8) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/OP-Minutes-20240611.htm
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-May-2024/
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.10
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcups/releases/v3.0b2
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.17
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/2.0.0
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.4.6
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/releases/tag/v1.2.0
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/lprint/releases/tag/v1.3.1

- Discussion
  - See OP Monthly Steering Committee minutes link from 06/11/24 (Ira)

  - See OP Monthly news link from 06/02/24 (Till)

  - GSoC 2024 (Till/Aveek/Ira)
    - DONE - 2 April 2024 - GSoC contributor application deadline
    - DONE - 24 April 2024 - GSoC contributor proposal rankings due from Org Admins
    - DONE - 1 May 2024 - Accepted GSoC contributor projects announced
    - DONE - 1 May to 26 May 2024 - Community Bonding Period - GSoC contributors get to know mentors
    - DONE - 27 May 2024 - Coding officially begins!
      - 11 active OP GSoC 2024 projects!
    - 12 July 2024 - GSoC contributor midterm evaluations (standard coding period)
    - 12 July to 19 August 2024 - GSoC contributors work on projects with guidance from Mentors
    - 2 September 2024 - GSoC contributor final evaluations (standard coding period)
    - 3 September 2024 - Initial results of Google Summer of Code 2024 announced

  - See OP CUPS v2.4.10 release notes link from 06/18/24 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)

  - See OP CUPS v3 beta2 release notes link from 10/05/23 (Mike)  

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

  - See CUPS Filters v2.0.0 final release notes link from 09/22/23 (Till)

  - See PAPPL v1.4.6 release notes link from 02/09/24 (Mike)

  - See PDFio v1.2.0 release notes link from late 01/24/24 (Mike)
    - Simple C library for reading and writing any version of PDF files

  - See LPrint v1.3.1 release notes link from early February (Mike)

  - OP Steering Committee
    - OP monthly calls 04/02/24, 06/11/24, and upcoming 07/09/24

(9) PWG 3D PR Opportunities - update (Paul)
https://www.icam2024.com/

- Discussion
  - ICAM 2024
 
  - Paul working on updates for all of the status from May

(10) Other Liaisons - status (Smith, Mike)
https://3mf.io/
https://mopria.org/
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- Discussion
  - 3MF
    - No updates

  - Mopria
    - No updates
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(11) Membership Dues - status (Jeremy)

- Discussion
  - All paid up

  - Payments are coming late - do we need to consider a "pay up front" promotion?

(12) Old Action Item Review

- Discussion
  - Will review soon - include with normal Action Item review...

(13) Next SC meetings

- SC - Monday 24 June 2024
  - CANCELED
  - Smith may be absent (Traveling to Connectivity Standards Alliance MM in DC)
  - Ira will be absent

- SC - Monday 1 July 2024 at 3-4pm US Eastern
  - Regular call
  - Jeremy will be absent (on vacation)
  - Sort through PWG August 2024 agenda

- SC - Monday 8 July 2024
  - CANCELED due to US Independence Day holiday weekend

- SC - Monday 15 July 2024 at 3-4pm US Eastern
  - Regular call

- SC - Monday 22 July 2024 at 3-4pm US Eastern
  - Review draft Plenary slides

- SC - Monday 29 July 2024 at 3-4pm US Eastern
  - Review final Plenary slides

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: 11/06/23 - Smith to work on "Internet Printing Protocol" technology page for PWG website w/ use cases
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/08/24 - Mike to prepare comments / summary slides on progress evaluating ICDSoft and Github PWG hosting infrastructure capabilites
- IN PROGRESS
- Refresh from action of 09/28/23
ACTION: 01/08/24: Paul to investigate Webinar / recording options to produce a video and where to host it (pwg.org, WebEx, YouTube)
- IN PROGRESS
- Working on an updated presentation to the ACI folks and that will inform working on this
ACTION: 06/10/24 - Jeremy to ask Mike to give an update on PWG Hosting Organization in an upcoming SC meeting
- CLOSED
ACTION: 06/10/24 - Jeremy to follow-up with Alan about IDS session plan for PWG August 2024
- CLOSED
ACTION: 06/10/24 - Smith to look at "IPP next steps" from PWG May 2024 and post a draft agenda for PWG August 2024
- CLOSED
ACTION: 06/10/24 - Smith to investigate interim solution (static page) for email subscribers
- OPEN