The PWG held its February Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting on
February 14-15, 2024 via Webex teleconference. Representatives
from Canon, Google, High North, HP Inc., Konica Minolta, Kyocera
Document Solutions, Lakeside Robotics, Lexmark, Microsoft, Okidata,
Qualcomm, TCS, and TIC attended the meetings, among others. 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.
The
F2F event began with the PWG Plenary session. The PWG Chair began with
the PWG Antitrust Policy, which was presented at the start of each
session at this F2F, as well as the PWG Intellectual Property Policy and
the PWG Patent Statement. The PWG Chair then reviewed the
overall state of the PWG, its programs and initiatives, and briefly
discussed upcoming face-to-face meeting scheduling. The PWG Chair also
noted that there were still some member companies that had not yet paid
dues for the year and encouraged everyone to do so before the upcoming
formal votes to insure that all those votes will count. We noted that there are currently 1237 printers certified under
the PWG's IPP Everywhere™ Self Certification program, and climbing, and
also noted that IPP Everywhere Self Certification 1.1 update 4 was now
available for beta testing. We discussed the PWG Steering
Committee's activities and initiatives, including progress on IPP
Printing Extensions, as well as the addition of IPP Document Object
v1.2, IPP Shared Infrastructure Extensions v1.1, IPP System Service
v1.1, and IPP Wifi Configuration Extensions v1.0. Representatives
from the IDS Workgroup and IPP Workgroup briefly
summarized their Workgroup's status. Due to special
circumstances, the IDS portion of the plenary was extended to give a
more in-depth status review in lieu of a full IDS session during this
particular face-to-face. Following this, the PWG Liaison
Officers briefly reported on the status of our partners' work in Linux
Open Printing, Google Summer of Code, Mopria Alliance, and a number of
3D Additive Manufacturing organizations (including AMSC, ASTM Commitee
F42, INCITS, 3MF Consortium, American Concrete Institute Committee 564,
PDF Association, and VDMA OPC UA for Additive Manufacturing Joint
Working Group 40 450).
IPP
Workgroup sessions began immediately following the plenary session with
a brief status of IPP Workgroup activities currently in progress.
Ira and Mike presented the status, which included a quick overview of
the IPP Workgroup charter updates and a look at the pending and
in-progress errata for a number of IPP documents. We also reviewed
the latest status on IPP OAuth Extensions v1.0 and the other working
drafts. Following this, we proceeded with a review of the latest draft
of the IPP Workgroup charter. Ira highlighted the changes, which
included updating the problem statement, projects, potential projects,
and milestones.
After
the lunch break, the IPP Workgroup re-convened with Smith taking us
through the PWG Last Call changes for IPP Enterprise Printing Extensions
v2.0. Before taking us through the list, Smith noted that the PWG
Last Call completed February 2, 2024 with 9 responses containing a
total of 54 comments. Smith also noted that PWG Formal Vote
would happen very soon. The review of Last Call Response
Comments closed out the first day of the face-to-face.
Day
2 of the face-to-face session opened with the IDS Workgroup Liaison
status. Ira provided an overview of the Trusted Computing
Group (TCG) status, including updates on Trusted Mobility Solutions
(TMS), Mobile Platform (MPWG), and a number of recent
specifications. Next, Ira covered the latest status from the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This updated included the
latest status and changes for numerous TLS drafts, Concise Binary Object
Representation (CBOR) drafts, Network Time Protocol (NTP), Remote
Attestation Procedures (RATS), and the IRTF Crypto Forum Research Group
(CFRG) regarding future algorithms.
Following
the IDS Liaison update, the IPP Workgroup resumed with a discussion on
Strong Device Identity BoF. We discussed the need for Strong
Device Identity, its potential use cases, and the differences between
device identity and device attestation, all with the end goal of how we
can establish trust for a local printer.
After
lunch, the IPP Workgroup resumed with reviews of the initial drafts for
IPP Shared Infrastructure Extensions v1.1 (with a proposed prototype
draft in Q124), and IPP System Service v1.1 (also with a proposed
prototype draft in Q124). We spent additional time on these
topics and did not cover the scheduled 3D topics on the
agenda. We closed out the session by reviewing the next
steps for the workgroup, including a look at the schedule for all of the
upcoming document drafts and the action items.
Complete minutes available here: https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/minutes/ippv2-f2f-minutes-20240214.pdf
There was no separate session for the IDS workgroup during the February Face-to-Face. Instead, the status was presented as part of the opening plenary session. Bill Wagner presented the status in the absence of the IDS WG Chair, Alan Sukert. Bill began with a high level status of the IDS workgroup, including the mission of the workgroup, noting that regular IDS sessions will remain on hold until Alan returns in May 2024. Bill noted that since the last face-to-face in November of 2023, the group has primarily been focused on 2 efforts: obtaining endorsements to HCD cPP v1.0 and HCD SP by NIAP, the Korean scheme, and the Japanese scheme, and completing and publishing the errata for those documents. Next was an update on the HCD international Technical Committee (iTC), including links to the latest drafts to both the HCP cPP and HCS SP documents. Bill then took us through the errata status for those documents, including a brief look into the issues that the errata have addressed and the remaining schedule for releasing the errata. Bill closed out the IDS session of the plenary by reviewing the key next steps for the HCD iTC and the IDS workgroup. Full minutes from the IDS session are available as part of the plenary minutes here: https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/minutes/pwg-plenary-minutes-20240214.htm, and slides are available through the plenary slides here: https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/Plenary/pwg-plenary-february-2024.pdf
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