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<DIV><FONT size=2>Harry,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>a few personal comments from my point of view:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>1. my company Oasis Semiconductor is very engaged in the MFP
section of the market.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>so I would certainly listen carefully to everything that type
of group would say.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>2. I suffer with some conceptional design decisions in the
Semantic Model.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I think the description of the finishing features was rushed
and could be reviewed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>and I am a believer that a structured tree has some advantages
over a long list of standalone feature or capabilities descriptions. instead of
describing the same element three times and call it something like
'FeatureDefault', 'FeatureReady' and 'FeatureSupported' I would prefer a
structured tree of features, allow the tree to be defined three times and add an
attribute with three enumerations 'Default', 'Ready' and 'Supported'. that way
the firmware and host software could reuse the same functions with different
meaning. and the SM would decrease in size, which I consider artificially blown
up by that cause.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>3. the UPDF structure supports PrintCapabilities.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>it was designed from the beginning - to be exact, at some
early stage it was planned - to support other device processes like faxing and
scanning as well.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>so the way the UPDF structures are designed, they could be
easily extended to support drivers of other processes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Don't know exactly what you have in mind, as there are quite
some parameters an MFP cares about.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>but I'll follow the discussion.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>cheers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Norbert Schade</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=harryl@us.ibm.com href="mailto:harryl@us.ibm.com">Harry Lewis</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pwg-announce@pwg.org
href="mailto:pwg-announce@pwg.org">pwg-announce@pwg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 18, 2004 12:37
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> PWG-ANNOUNCE> Call for
interest - Complete Standard Imaging Model</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>The PWG has a legacy of
developing standards that span a large segment of the printing industry. The
Printer MIB, for example, has been adopted in devices ranging from low-price,
low-speed network attached printers to very high speed production
applications. The PWG Common Semantic Model, likewise, is leveraged by
industry standards ranging from CIP4 to Bluetooth. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>One area of primary focus, the networked office device,
has undergone a transformation from network printer to network MFD with an
associated shift toward to a services oriented, fleet managed placement and
operation model. This begs for new standards upon with to base new tools
development to enable remote management of heterogenous fleets. The PWG is
responding to this need, largely via the WIMS (Web-based Imaging Management
Services) effort which includes extending the PWG Common Semantic Model to
express the necessary device management elements. </FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>WIMS presents the opportunity (and need) for the PWG to
model more than just the printer, print job and document... but to grow our
model to embrace a more complete imaging system including scan, fax, copy and
finishing services. THIS IS A CALL FOR INTEREST IN FORMATION AND PARTICIPATION
IN A FORMAL, MFD ORIENTED, PWG WORKING GROUP TO DEFINE A COMPLETE STANDARD
IMAGING MODEL. I hope the industry will respond with a show of support for
this effort. To create a CSIM working group we will need volunteer leadership
and knowledgeable participants from across the industry. If, due to lack of
bandwidth (in PWG and the industry) we cannot muster critical mass, the
default approach will be for WIMS to develop a skeleton set of objects, enough
to express the state and some metrics interesting to fleet management and
billing (ex. number of scan impressions). </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>We try not to clog up "pwg-announce" with long threads so I invite you
to respond to me, personally and copy your response to "</FONT><A
href="mailto:pwg@pwg.org"><FONT face=sans-serif color=blue
size=2>pwg@pwg.org</FONT></A><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>" where we welcome
and encourage general discussion about goals and operation of the PWG.
</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I look forward to your responses
and I will plan a report on this topic and proposal for action during the PWG
Plenary in Montreal August 18, 2004.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>---------------------------------------------- <BR>Harry Lewis <BR>IBM
STSM<BR>Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working
Group<BR>http://www.pwg.org<BR>IBM Printing Systems
<BR>http://www.ibm.com/printers<BR>303-924-5337<BR>----------------------------------------------
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