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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Google Cloud Print Partner Announce Group has recently emailed updated versions of Cloud Device Description, Privet(Cloud Device Local Discovery/API protocol), and Cloud Device and Job States<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Semantic State support for Google Cloud Print) documents. I suggest (and expect) that those interested in Cloud Printing subscribe to the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Google Groups "Google Cloud Print Partner Announce" group . I would observe that these documents deal with the same discovery, device characteristics, job ticket, and device and job states that the Cloud Imaging Model WG is concerned with. They also deal with both Print and Scan services. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Of perhaps immediate interest are the Cloud Device Description elements identified in the appendix and the fact that Google is providing web tools that can automatically translate PPD and XPS (MSPS) files into CDD, and can translate CJT back into native ticket formats (JSON for PPD and a psf:PrintTicket document for XPS).<span style='color:black'> These tools are located at </span><span style='color:#1155CD'>https://www.google.com/cloudprint/tools/cdd/cdd.html</span><span style='color:black'>.</span> The Cloud WG original mapping effort originally was intended to map from PPD and MSPS to PWG Semantic Model elements. Perhaps we should consider taking on a mapping between Google CDD and PWG semantic model elements, although I don’t know if we have the resources to provide cross mapping tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As decided at the October face-to-face meeting, we do not have a Cloud conference call next Monday because of Veterans' Day. Our next call is 18 November. I will have an updated draft of the Model document then, but we may also want to discuss the Google Cloud documents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I will seek an opinion on whether we can post the Google documents on the PWG ftp site.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bill Wagner<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>