PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 6 April 2020

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Chair)
Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Vice Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-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) Zoom as a teleconference replacement (All)
  (4) Mopria Liaison Update (Smith)
  (5) PWG May 2020 Virtual F2F - Plenary slides review (Smith)
  (6) PWG Process 4.0 - Status (Smith)
  (7) GSoC 2020 Planning (Ira / All)
  (8) PWG Pending Press Releases
  (9) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
  (10) Next SC meetings (All)
  (11) Action Items - Review (All)

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20190323.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (23 March 2020)
  - Approved as posted

(2) IDS WG Chair replacement - Status (Alan)

- Discussion
  - Alan not present

  - Smith to continue email dialog with Brian Volkoff (Ricoh) about IDS officers
    - Smith did point Brian Volkoff to the IDS WG charter

(3) Zoom as a teleconference replacement (All)
https://zoom.us/pricing

- Discussion
  - Warts and corns with it a bit

  - New security recommendations to avoid "zoombombing"
    - Recommend using the waiting room
    - Also disallow private chat

  - Adding an 800 number? Will pursue this if not too expensive
    - What about "Call me"? Is that a different add-on? Will look into that as well

(4) Mopria Liaison Update (Smith)

- Discussion
  - Kevin Schader and Ingrid Kelly from Mopria reached out to Jane Celusak (ISTO) and 
    Smith about executing a new Liaison Agreement

  - Duration of last one was 2 years and it expired in April 2019

  - New Liaison Agreement is now signed and active from 3 April 2020 to 3 April 2022

(5) PWG May 2020 Virtual F2F - Plenary slides review (Smith)
http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/may-2020-virtual.html
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- Discussion
  - IPP Everywhere v1.1 
    - Approved when? 
    - Will it be in Call for Objections during the F2F? 
    - Or approved by then?
    - Will get that figured out this Thursday at the IPP WG meeting 04/09/20
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ACTION: 04/06/20 - Smith to help Ira to produce the OpenPrinting plenary with the PWG IPR, etc. for the first day of the May 2020 Virtual F2F
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/06/20 - Smith to ping Mike about rebuilding 1.0 Update 4 distro using new Apple certificates, etc.
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/06/20 - Smith to search IPP reflector archives for latest registrations since February 2020 Virtual F2F
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/06/20 - Smith to update Gantt chart in May PWG Plenary slides with IPP items from recent IPP WG agenda
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/06/20 - Ira to send Smith a Linux OpenPrinting logo image so Smith can create a PWG IPR slide deck for the Linux OP Plenary at May 2020 Virtual F2F
- OPEN
(6) 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/wd/pwg-namespace-policy-20160820.docx
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/ipp-registry-policy-20200330.pdf
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- Discussion
  - Stable draft of IPP Registry Policy following last SC Tiger Team meeting and
    review on 03/30/20 
    - When to approve?

  - Will present at IPP WG meeting 04/09/20 and see if there are any objections
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(7) GSoC 2020 Planning (Ira / All)

- Discussion
  - No updates

- GSoC 2020 Timeline (*updated)
  - DONE - 14 January - Mentoring organization applications submissions start
  - DONE - 5 February - Mentoring organization application submissions end
  - DONE - 5-19 February - Google program administrators review organization applications
  - DONE - 20 February - List of accepted mentoring organizations published
  - DONE - 20 February to 16 March - Potential students discuss ideas w/ mentors
  - DONE - 16 March - Student application submissions start
  - DONE - 31 March - Student application submissions end
  - 21 April* - Student slot requests due from Org Admins
  - 30 April* - Student Project selections due from Org Admins
  - 4 May* - Accepted student projects announced
  - 1 June* 	Coding officially begins!
  - 29 June* - Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 1 evaluations
  - 3 July* - Phase 1 Evaluation deadline
  - 27 July* - Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 2 evaluations
  - 31 July* - Phase 2 Evaluation deadline
  - 24-31 August* - Final week: Students submit their final work and mentor evaluations
  - 31 August to 7 September* - Mentors submit final student evaluations
  - 8 September* - Final results of Google Summer of Code 2020 announced
  - October* - GSoC 2020 Mentor Summit (at risk of cancelation)

(8) PWG Pending Press Releases

- Discussion
  - General IPP announcement
    - IPP System Service v1.0
    - IPP TRANS
    - IPP Label printing
    - Get this press release done by end of April 2020

  - IPP Everywhere™ v1.1
    - To be posted when finalized

  - Recently approved 3D related PWG specifications and recently established 
    3D-related liaison relationships
    - IPP 3D Printing Extensions v1.1
    - PWG Safe G-Code Subset for 3D Printing v1.0
    - Liaison agreements?

(9) AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul)
https://www.drupa.com/
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- Discussion
  - Need to revisit ISO TC271 liaison
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ACTION: 04/06/20 - Smith to dig back into the ISO TC271 liaison (PDF metadata for 3D content) - get with Joni to find out what ISTO legal said (if anything), etc.
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/06/20 - Smith to monitor the HP INCITS engagement
- OPEN

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

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 13 April 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - document review
  - maybe a review of a pending update to PWG Namespace Policy if there is a new 
    draft available to review from Ira

- SC - Monday 20 April 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - approve IPP Registry Policy?
  - review first draft of Paul's Specialist Printing Worldwide article
  - review final PWG Plenary slides for May 2020 Virtual F2F

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 27 April 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - document review

- SC - Monday 4 May 2020 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - last minute meeting before F2F
  - (may be canceled or maybe Tiger Team)

- PWG Plenary - Wednesday 6 May 2020 7am Pacific / 10am Eastern
  - Joint PWG/OP Virtual F2F 5-7 May 2020

(11) 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 - Paul/Smith to work with Joni to get ISO TC171 SC2 WG12 liaison going
- 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.
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 02/24/20 - Smith: Reach out to Kyle from PrinterLogic to check in maybe in a few weeks
- OPEN
ACTION: 02/24/20 - Smith / Ira to do leg work to plan next PWG Press Releases offline
- OPEN
ACTION: 03/09/20 - Smith to engage Joni (at ISTO) in a discussion on exploring other teleconference providers since we have been unhappy with WebEx for several years
- OPEN
ACTION: 03/23/20 - Smith to point Brian Volkoff (Ricoh) to the current IDS WG charter
- CLOSE
ACTION: 03/23/20 - All to review IDS WG Charter
- OPEN
ACTION: 03/23/20 - Alan to volunteer as IDS WG Co-Chair or Chair / Vice-Chair with one of the individuals that he has already engaged
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 03/23/20 - Smith to inquire about INCITS TC state internally (within HP), to find out what is going on...and that info will inform the decision of how to do the PWG press releases w/ INCITS
- CLOSED
ACTION: 03/23/20 - Paul to write initial draft of PWG article for Specialist Printing Worldwide for review by PWG SC on 04/20/20
- OPEN
ACTION: 03/23/20 - Paul to get AMSC to list the IPP 3D Printing v1.1, PWG 3D Print Job Ticket and Associated Capabilities v1.0 (PJT3D), and PWG Safe G-Code v1.0 documents in their AMSC catalog
- OPEN