FSG/OP SC Minutes (30 November 2006)

FSG Open Printing Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes 30 November 2006

Meeting called to order by Norm Jacobs at approximately 5pm US EST 30 November 2006. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Norm Jacobs (Sun) - FSG/OP Steering Committee Chair (retiring)
Till Kamppeter (FSG)
Ira McDonald (High North) - FSG/OP Steering Committee Chair (incoming)
Keisho Shida (Canon)
Yasumasa Toratani (Canon)

Absentees

Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)
Glen Petrie (Epson)

Agenda

(1) Review minutes of last FSG/OP SC meeting at ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee in the files FSGOP-SC-Minutes-20061106.htm/pdf
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    - Approved with action items deferred to later topics
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(2) Schedule for PDAPI/1.0 (Vector Printer Driver API - aka OPVP)

    - Last Call to printing stds groups (FSG/PWG/JDF/etc)
      - ACTION - Ira - announce Last Call
        - CLOSED - sent on 13 November
        - Last Call ends on Wednesday 13 December
    - Discussion - Michael Sweet asked for some English fixups
      and Ira suggested boilerplate, references, and Release Request
      - ACTION - Shida/Mihara/Toratani - by Friday 8 December
        - Develop plan for line and/or section numbering & English fixup
      - ACTION - Shida/Mihara/Toratani - by Friday 8 December
        - Develop plan for writing FSG/OP Release Request (for process)
      - ACTION - Ira and Glen - by end-of-2006
        - Work on English fixups, FSG/OP boilerplate, references, etc.

(3) Schedule for PCM/1.0 (Print Channel Manager API)

    - Status
      - FSG/OP Japan now working on PCM
    - Roadmap
      - Draft spec by end-of-December 2006
      - Requirements feasibility test by end-of-March-2007 (prototype?)
      - PCM/1.0 spec by end-of-July 2007

(4) Schedule for SM/1.0 (Status Monitoring API) - update to use PCM/1.0

    - Status
      - FSG/OP Japan will start work in January 2007
    - Roadmap
      - Draft spec by end-of-July 2007
      - Requirements feasibility test to be scheduled (prototype?)
      - SM/1.0 spec by end-of-December 2007

(5) Schedule for PDAPI/1.1 (aka OPVP) - update for Text and Fonts

    - Status
      - FSG/OP Japan will start work in later 2007
    - Roadmap
      - Draft spec by end-of-December 2007

(6) Selection of 2007 FSG/OP Chair (Norm is retiring)

    - Ira was elected new FSG/OP Chair (by unanimous vote)
      - ACTION - Norm - announce to FSG Arch mailing list

(7) Future directions for FSG Open Printing

    - Discussion
      - Norm commented in email note after last FSG Architecture meeting
        - Till replied we should focus on getting APIs into Linux
      - Ira urged a broader POSIX target (including Windows) for APIs
        - Norm - PAPI/1.0 and PDAPI/0.2 are shipping in Open Solaris
        - Ira - JTAPI precursor is shipping in IBM OS/390
      - Ira noted success story of FSG/OP Japan projects in LSB/3.2
    - Device Discovery API
      - Ira planned to discuss next week at OSDL Desktop Architects
        - Norm suggested Ira consider coherence with HAL plug-and-play
      - Ira contrasted discovery of local devices and network devices
        - Norm has been looking at HAL, MDNS, and others on Open Solaris
      - Ira contrasted Zero Configuration (ad-hoc) and Managed Networks
        - two modes have opposite default strategies
        - could use a passive DHCP Listener to toggle between modes
    - Next Steps
      - ACTION - every SC member - suggested by Shida
        - Write up your FSG/OP mid-term vision/plan (2007 to 2009)
      - January SC meeting
        - review these plans and search for concensus

(8) Other printing news

    - Till - Ghostscript merging w/ ESP Ghostscript
      - within next few months, they should merge
    - Till - CUPS/1.3 release
      - December 2006 CUPS/1.3 release has no beta yet

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next FSG/OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) First 2007 meeting - NOTE - one hour later and third week in January

    - Monday 15 January 2007, Evening
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        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)
    
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(2) Second 2007 meeting - tentative schedule

    - Monday 5 February 2007, Evening
        US

    - Tuesday 6 February 2007, Morning
        Europe/Japan