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A official alliance is being formed and a "Work Register" has been filed that defines a project wherein the PWG and DMTF will cooperate in updating the DMTF CIM core schema as they pertain to printing. The Work Register will be voted and (assuming it passes) the alliance will become official at the DMTF Board meeting May 12. In anticipation of a mid-May kick-off I am asking for volunteers interested in assisting with this effort (even if you responded to an earlier request when I announced the concept, please take this opportunity to reiterate your support). The main effort will be to evaluate the current CIM System Devices core schema and recommend where and how it should be updated to align with the latest Printer MIB v2, PWG Semantic Model, and PWG Counter Specification (which should be Candidate Standard status by that time). The PWG has been quite successful, through the efforts of all our members, in helping standards orgs across our industry... from Bluetooth to CIP4... adopt a fairly common set of semantics. The effort to align with DMTF has a similar goal. The DMTF consists of several large enterprise management app vendors who are interested in preparing for the potential convergence of Server/Storage/Printer management. Aligning our semantics and schema will be an initial goal. Beyond that effort there may be future opportunities to influence management protocol and operations in subsequent cooperative projects. ---------------------------------------------- Harry Lewis IBM STSM Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group http://www.pwg.org IBM Printing Systems http://www.ibm.com/printers 303-924-5337 ----------------------------------------------