The PWG held its February 2020 Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting on February 5-6, 2020 via WebEx teleconferences. Representatives from Canon, Google, High North, HP Inc., Kyocera, Lakeside Robotics, Lexmark, Ricoh, TIC, TCS and Xerox attended the meetings. Attendees reviewed work in progress, including drafts of a number of in-progress specifications, and discussed liaisons with partner groups. Here is a summary of the proceedings.
As in previous PWG Face to Face events, the PWG Chair presented the Plenary.
We reviewed the overall state of the PWG,
its programs and initiatives, and briefly discussed upcoming
face-to-face meeting scheduling. We noted that there are
now 412 printers certified under the PWG's IPP Everywhere™
Self Certification program, with more certifications believed to
be in progress from multiple vendors. We discussed the PWG Steering Committee's
activities and initiatives, including its 2020 goals, the status of Process 4.0, PR efforts, recently approved
documents, process document updates, the website migration initiative,
and "toolset" alternatives for producing specifications. Each active PWG
workgroup (IDS Workgroup
and IPP
Workgroup) summarized their current status. Finally, we
reviewed the status of our partners' work in Trusted Computing
Group (TCG), IETF, Linux Foundation OpenPrinting Workgroup, Mopria Alliance and 3MF Consortium.
Complete minutes are available here: https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/minutes/pwg-plenary-minutes-20200205.htm
On the first day, Ira McDonald (IPP WG Co-Chair) and Mike Sweet
(IPP WG Secretary) surveyed the
status of current IPP Workgroup works in progress, noting that IPP
Transaction-Based Printing Extensions v1.1 and IPP Label Printing
Extensions v1.0 are both in IPP WG Last Call, ending on February 13,
2020. We then briefly
reviewed the status of IPP
Everywhere™ and IPP Everywhere Self Certification,
noting that a beta release of the IPP Everywhere Self Certification Test
Suite 1.0 Update 4 was recently announced and made available, and
encouraged attendees to test this in the next two weeks. After
a break, we discussed the status of IPP Production Printing Extensions v2.0. Following that,
we began a review of the latest
draft of IPP Driverless Printing Extensions v2.0, that had received a
number of updates. That review didn't complete, so the group committed
to reviewing it further the next day. We
finished the day discussing Job Accounting with IPP v1.0.
On the second day, after the IDS Workgroup session, the IPP
Workgroup sessions started with a
review of IPP Encrypted Jobs and Documents v1.0. We then resumed
our review of IPP Driverless Printing Extensions v2.0, still not
completing a full review but making substantive progress, and committed
to conclude the review of this revision in the next IPP WG
teleconference. After a much needed break,
Paul Tykodi (IPP WG Co-Chair and lead PWG 3D Printing Liaison) led a
discussion on the status of the PWG's 3D Printing
related liaisons and outreach efforts, noting that we were in the
process of establishing a liaison with ITC TC171 and some upcoming
engagements with ACI and presentations at Drupa 2020. We concluded the
IPP WG
sessions with next steps.
Complete minutes are available here: https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/minutes/ippv2-f2f-minutes-20200205.pdf
At the start of the second day, Alan Sukert (outgoing PWG Vice-Chair
and IDS WG Chair) led the IDS Workgroup
status and progress discussion. We went through the minutes of the HCD
Technical Community (TC) Conference Calls held recently, including the
status of the initiative to approve generation of an HCD international
TC (iTC) and some thoughts on what the content of HCD collaborative
Protection Profile (cPP) v1.0 should include. Our hope is that the vote
will be done before the CCUF Workshop Mar 15-17 in Burlington MA. Ira
then went through his slides on TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 that are part of the
meeting slides. Ira then led us through the changes made in the PDF rev
version of the 1/20/2020 draft of the PWG Hardcopy Device Security
Guidelines v1.0. Alan indicated that he is retiring from Xerox on April
1st so this is his last IDS Face-to-Face Meeting, and the other
attendees thanked him for his efforts. We wrapped up with next steps.
Complete minutes are available here: https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ids/minutes/ids-f2f-minutes-20200206.pdf
The next PWG Face-to-Face meeting will be May 5-7, 2020 at the Lexmark headquarters in Lexington, KY. Please check the PWG Meetings page for updates on plans for upcoming meetings.