PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 15 April 2024

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Vice Chair)
Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Paul Tykodi (TCS, IPP WG Co-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 Hosting Organization - status (Mike/Jeremy/Smith/Ira)
  (4) PWG May 2024 F2F - status (All)
  (5) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)
  (6) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
  (7) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
  (8) PWG 3D PR Opportunities - update (Paul)
  (9) Other Liaisons - status (Smith/Mike)
  (10) Document Management Policy - status (Smith)
  (11) Membership Dues - status (Jeremy)
  (12) Next SC meetings

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20240325.htm

- IPR and Antitrust

- Roll Call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (25 March 2024)
  - Approved

(2) Action Item Review
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- None
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(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 - still waiting on Mike to do a more in depth analysis of ICDSoft
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(4) PWG May 2024 F2F - status (All)
https://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/may-2024-virtual.html
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- Discussion
  - Review draft Plenary slides next week?
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ACTION: 04/15/24 - Jeremy to do draft PWG May 2024 Plenary slides and remind workgroup leads and liaison reps
- OPEN
ACTION: 04/15/24 - Ira to get LFOP folks to make their slides and/or update the agenda as needed
- OPEN

(5) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)

- Discussion
  - Nothing new

  - Ought to review status of PWG SC and IDS/IPP mailing list reflectors monthly

(6) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)

- Discussion
  - Still stuck where we were last time
    - But becoming more important to get the slides done and approved by the SC

ACTION: 04/15/24 - Paul to get the 3D slides done.
- OPEN

(7) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/OP-Minutes-20240312.htm
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2024/
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.7
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 03/12/24 (Ira)

  - See OP Monthly news link from 04/05/24 (Till)

  - GSoC 2024 (Till/Aveek/Ira)
    - 3-4 GSoC 2024 contributors are already coding and fixing problems
    - Project to replace qPDF with PDFio which will have a number of benefits
    - DONE - 26 January to 6 February 2024 - Mentoring organizations submit applications to Google
    - DONE - 6 February to 20 February 2024 - Google program admins review organization applications
    - DONE - 21 February 2024 - List of accepted mentoring organizations published
    - DONE - 22 February to 18 March 2024 - Potential GSoC contributors discuss application ideas 
      with mentoring organizations
    - DONE - 2 April 2024 - GSoC contributor application deadline
    - 24 April 2024 - GSoC contributor proposal rankings due from Org Admins
    - 1 May 2024 - Accepted GSoC contributor projects announced
    - 1 May to 26 May 2024 - Community Bonding Period - GSoC contributors get to know mentors
    - 27 May 2024 - Coding officially begins!

  - See OP CUPS v2.4.7 release notes link from 09/20/23 (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 03/12/24, 04/02/24, and upcoming 05/14/24

(8) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2023 - update (Paul)
https://www.drupa.com/

- Discussion
  - Drupa has offered us a slot to make a presentation about professional services for 3D 
    printing
    - Drupa runs 28 May to 7 June 2024

    - Last time we went to Drupa (2016) they were really spun up about 3D printing
      - This time they have set the program but the 3D slot is at the end

      - Does it make sense to attend after all?

ACTION: 04/15/24 - Paul to write up something to take to 3D printer manufacturer PWG member organizations for SC review
- Paul to do a draft write-up and share with the SC on 04/22/24?
- OPEN

(9) 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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(10) Membership Dues - status (Jeremy)

- Discussion
  - 2 delinquents: Apple and Toshiba

(11) Document Management Policy - status (Smith)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/wd-pwg-document-management-policy-20240416-rev.docx

- Discussion
  - Live editing during SC call on 04/15/24
    - Approved all changes but one remaining comment

  - Smith posted updated Document Management Policy on 04/16/24
    - Bill questioned removal of FTP access to PWG Process and Policy documents - good point!
    
  - Bill also sent a good set of editorial comments on 04/16/24 draft
    - Smith will update Document Management Policy before next SC call

ACTION: 04/15/24 - Smith to announce the new draft of Document Management Policy and discuss the new "https://www.pwg.org/governance/" directory in the announcement to get some offline discussion
- IN PROGRESS

(12) Next SC meetings

- SC - Monday 22 April 2024 at 3-4pm US Eastern
  - Review draft PWG May 2024 Plenary slides

- SC - Monday 29 April 2024 at 3-4pm US Eastern
  - Review final PWG May 2024 Plenary slides

- SC - Monday 6 May 2024
  - CANCELED due to PWG May 2024 F2F

- SC - Monday 13 May 2024
  - CANCELED due to week after PWG May 2024 F2F
  - Ira will be absent (ISO TC22/SC32/WG12 Virtual F2F)

- SC - Monday 20 May 2024 at 3-4pm US Eastern
  - Post mortem on PWG May 2024 F2F
  - Smith will be absent (traveling to Wi-Fi Alliance Members 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: 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: 02/05/24 - Jeremy / IEEE-ISTO to contact billing contacts to get them to try to get paid up in time for upcoming formal vote
- CLOSED