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I would like to have a process check regarding the issuing of draft standards in the PWG.  The good news is that we've had quite a lot of draft activity recently. This demonstrates vibrant interest in our standards within the industry. We've also been fairly diligent in following the use of a standard template (the ISTO tells me there will be come template updates forthcoming). In our enthusiasm, however, we've begun to overlook the need for a formal process of introducing, chartering, developing, reviewing and accepting the draft as a standard. The most outward evidence of this is that new drafts are being issues with ISTO PWG standard document numbers already assigned. I would like to amend our process to clarify that new draft proposals should be named following a convention "pwg-working group-proposal name" (ex. "pwg-ipp-actual-attributes-v1-01" or "pwg-ps-spec-v0-91"). I will allow discussion on this in case we need to hone the format. Once decided, we will migrate to using the new naming convention. ---------------------------------------------- Harry Lewis Chairman - ISTO Printer Working Group IBM Printing Systems ----------------------------------------------