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I am pleased to announce that the PWG Steering Committee has demonstrated unanimous support to approve the charter to form a new MFD (MultiFunction Device) working group.  As described in the Charter (links below) the MFD working group is the forum in which the industry will model MFD services and their management. The results of these modeling efforts will later be assimilated into the overall PWG Semantic Model. The need has been demonstrated for an MFD Model and, now, the PWG is stepping up to serve the industry by developing a standard that will help drive consistency and interoperability across implementations and platforms. I invite all PWG members to participate by joining the 1 hour MFD conference call scheduled for Thursday May 17 at 11AM Dial-In Tele-Con Number:1-866-365-4406 Pass Code: 2635888 I also encourage you to join the MFD mailing list by sending an e-mail to <a href=mailto:majordomo@pwg.org>majordomo@pwg.org</a> with a blank subject line containing the line: subscribe mfd Charter links: <tt>  ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/mfd/charter/ch-mfd-20070504.doc  - MS Word source  ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/mfd/charter/ch-mfd-20070504.pdf  - PDF w/ line numbers </tt> ---------------------------------------------- Harry Lewis IBM STSM Intellectual Property, Standards and Licensing Chairman - ISTO Printer Working Group 303-924-5337 ----------------------------------------------