PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 24 February 2020

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Chair)
Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Vice Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Alan Sukert (Xerox, former PWG Vice Chair, IDS WG Chair)
Paul Tykodi (TCS, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Bill Wagner (TIC, former Cloud WG and 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) IDS WG Chair replacement - Status (Alan)
  (3) DRUPA 2020 presentations draft Abstract - Review (Paul)
  (4) 3D Bioprinting Roadmap - Review (Paul)
  (5) PWG/Printer Logic call - Debrief (All)
  (6) PWG May 2020 F2F - Status (All)
  (7) PWG Process 4.0 / SC Document Review - Status (Smith)
  (8) GSoC 2020 Planning (Ira / All)
  (9) PWG Pending Press Releases
  (10) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
  (11) Toolset thoughts (All)
  (12) Next SC meetings (All)
  (13) Action Items - Review (All)

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20190210.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (10 February 2020)
  - Approved as posted

(2) IDS WG Chair replacement - Status (Alan)
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- Discussion
  - Alan says unfortunately nobody has stepped up (and confirmed) yet
    - Cihan is still waiting for his management approval
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ACTION: 02/24/20 - Smith to ask Brian Volkoff (Ricoh) and Cihan Colakoglu (Kyocera) separately about them becoming IDS Chair / Vice-Chair or becoming IDS Co-Chairs
- OPEN

(3) DRUPA 2020 presentations draft Abstract - Review (Paul)

- Discussion
  - Live edited in a word document that was sent back out to the SC reflector

(4) 3D Bioprinting Roadmap - Review (Paul)
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/researchers-create-roadmap-for-3d-bioprinting-168490/
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- Discussion
  - Paul will find out if PWG was accepted to present at ARMI on 03/03/20
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(5) PWG/Printer Logic call - Debrief (All)
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- Discussion
  - Smith, Ira, Bill, Jeremy, Paul attended
  - An hour well spent talking with a potential new PWG member company
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ACTION: 02/24/20 - Smith: Reach out to Kyle from PrinterLogic to check in maybe in a few weeks
- OPEN

(6) PWG May 2020 F2F - Status (All)
http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/may-2020-lexington.html
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6572M7C

- Discussion
  - Michael Vrhel (Ghostscript/MuPDF) will present

  - Sean Kau (Chrome OS)will present

  - Till Kamppeter (CUPS Filters) will present

  - Aveek Basu (GSoC) will present

  - Smith has reached out to Apple to get them to do a CUPS presentation

(7) PWG Process 4.0 - Status (Smith)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/pwg-officials-roles-and-responsibilities-20200128.pdf
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/pwg-officer-election-process-20200128.pdf
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/pwg-namespace-policy-20160820.docx
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/ipp-registry-policy-20191121.docx
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- Discussion
  - Deferred - will engage at next week's Tiger Team meeting
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(8) GSoC 2020 Planning (Ira / All)

- Discussion
 - Deferred 

 - Linux Foundation was accepted as a mentoring organization on 02/20/20

(9) PWG Pending Press Releases
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- Discussion
  - Deferred
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ACTION: 02/24/20 - Smith / Ira to do leg work to plan next PWG Press Releases offline
- OPEN

(10) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
https://www.drupa.com/

- Discussion
  - Paul all set to attend the ACI in Chicago on 03/30/20

  - Paul to attend 3DHEALS on 03/18/20

  - Paul to attend DRUPA in June 2020
    - Coronavirus risk for cancelling DRUPA 2020?

ACTION: 02/24/20 - Paul to pdate the AMSC online document about gaps and recent PWG documents published
- OPEN

(11) Toolset thoughts (All)
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- Discussion
  - Deferred
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(12) Next SC meetings (All)
http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 2 March 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - document review

- SC - Monday 9 March 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 16 March 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - document review

- SC - Monday 23 March 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - regular meeting

(13) Action Items - Review (All)

- Discussion
  - Deferred (but action item 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: 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/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: 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: 02/25/19 - Paul to reach out to MT Connect on behalf of PWG
- OPEN
ACTION: 05/20/19 - Ira / Alan to add "Other interesting reflectors and groups" section to the IDS WG page on the PWG website
- OPEN
ACTION: 05/20/19 - Paul / Mike to maybe do some development work on embedding 3MF job tickets
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/17/19 - Smith to create the PWG IPP Status 2019 deck (for Mopria and others)
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 07/01/19 - Smith to talk to Mike about updating the 3D page so that it lists the growing list of 3D related PWG documents
- OPEN
ACTION: 07/15/19 - Smith to look for alternate web hosting providers and / or discuss other solutions with Mike Sweet
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 07/29/19 - Ira to produce an updated draft of pwg-namespace-policy for review at a future SC meeting
- OPEN
ACTION: 09/09/19 - Smith/Ira to keep nudging forward IPP Everywhere™ plugfest
- OPEN
ACTION: 09/09/19 - Paul to post query to ipp@pwg.org reflector on how to appropriately convey "print quality" attributes that may be relating to process, and how they should be represented via IPP (keeping in mind process vs. intent)
- OPEN
ACTION: 11/18/19 - Smith to work w/ ISTO and Mike to get PWG business notes delivered to all three PWG officers
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 12/16/19 - Smith to get events page listed on PWG meetings page
- OPEN
ACTION: 12/16/19 - Smith to find a good crisp explanation (hopefully from Google) about what GCP discontinuance actually means, because the articles are a bit vague and our PWG answer would need to respond to the Google statement directly
- OPEN
ACTION: 12/16/19 - Smith and Paul to get a liaison agreement between PWG and 3D PDF Consortium
- IN PROGRESS
Paul met with Phil Spreier on 12/16/19 and will send an introductory email to Smith and Joni to get the ball rolling on this liaison
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Smith/Ira to connect with Anne Price on press releases
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Ira/Mike to reach out to UK Govt Printing folks to update status
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/13/20 - Paul/Smith to work with Joni to get ISO TC171 SC2 WG12 liaison going
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 02/10/20 - Smith to reply to email thread with SC approval to get ISTO to fund Paul's ACI Individual membership
- CLOSED
ACTION: 02/10/20 - Smith/Ira to email OP to remind them to work on Ghostscript, CUPS, OP Plenary decks in advance of the PWG May 2020 F2F
- CLOSED
- Ira emailed Michael Vhrel (Artifex) for Ghostscript/MuPDF talk on 02/11/20
-- Michael Vhrel committed to 4-pm US Eastern on Tuesday 5 May 2020
- Ira reminded Till, Aveek, and Danny about OP agenda in OP monthly call on 02/11/20
-- Till and Aveek collaborated w/ Ira and Smith on PWG May 2020 F2F agenda
ACTION: 02/10/20 - Paul to mail Anne (CC Smith / Jeremy / Ira) explaining the need for coordinating on a press release with DRUPA 2020
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 02/10/20 - Smith to review Joni's latest response on ISO TC 171 liaison
- Make sure Joni doesn't just send Process 3.0 w/out a link to approved PWG policies
- Need something (web page, document) pointer to Process 3.0, Policy directory, IPR, etc.
- OPEN
ACTION: 02/10/20 - Smith to See about finding a time for SC Tiger Team meeting in another timeslot (instead of 17 February 2020)
- CLOSED