PWG> PWG Proposed Standard versus PWG Draft Standard

PWG> PWG Proposed Standard versus PWG Draft Standard

Harry Lewis harryl at us.ibm.com
Tue Jan 14 14:58:51 EST 2003


Any resemblance to the IETF process (or not) is of little significance in 
my opinion. I would prefer not to compare in the ultimate (updated) PWG 
process document... but if it helps our discussion, for now... ok. 

You clarifications about versioning are good. Thanks. 

Do you really mean to imply that a Draft Standard cannot bump version? I 
was not thinking of it this way. 

I disagree that we need two levels of interop. We should have further 
discussion on this from a wider audience. 

One more thought from me. The process, as written, pertains (and has been 
followed) well for the formation of new working groups (IFX, XP, SM...) 
but has not been followed well for what I would call "extension documents" 
(mainly IPP extensions). Is this just an enforcement problem or should the 
process actually be amended with possible streamlining for extensions (ex. 
jump right to Draft last call from Working Draft)?
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Harry Lewis 
IBM Printing Systems 
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"Hastings, Tom N" <hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com>
01/14/2003 10:54 AM
 
        To:     Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM at IBMUS, "Hastings, Tom N" 
<hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com>
        cc:     Gail Songer <gsonger at peerless.com>, pwg at pwg.org, "Seeler, 
Rick" <rseeler at adobe.com>
        Subject:        RE: PWG> PWG Proposed Standard versus PWG Draft 
Standard


Harry,
 
So you are suggesting that the PWG names and steps are the same as the 
IETF, which will help us all understand the PWG process better.  I think 
this is fine.  And thanks for updating the PWG Process Document.
 
So we still need a name for the various versions of documents that lead up 
to the Last Call.  I think that the current PWG process document uses the 
term "PWG Working Draft".  So the template that I was working on for 
IEEE-ISTO PWG standards should be for a "PWG Working Draft", not for a 
"PWG Proposed Standard" or a "PWG Draft Standard".  I can make a second 
template for the PWG Proposed Standard which just changes the few items 
from "PWG Working Draft" to "PWG Proposed Standard".  OK?
 
This terminology and PWG steps map nicely and has a similar sound to the 
IETF equivalents.  The equivalents to the "PWG Working Draft" is the IETF 
"INTERNET DRAFT".
 
So the complete PWG process is:
 
PWG Working Draft - many each with a distinguishing decimal version number 
(0.1, 0.2, 0.3 ... 0.9, 0.10, 0.11, 0.12 ...) leading up to Last Call (1), 
Last Call (2), or Last Call (3).
 
Last Call (1) + Vote -> Proposed Standard Version 1.0.  If it is revised, 
then repeat at this level with a new version number, either 1.1, or 2.0.

Last Call (2) + Vote + Steering Committee -> Draft Standard Inherits the 
version number from the last Proposed

Last Call (3) + Vote + SC + General Acceptance and Interop -> Standard  
Inherits the version number from the last Proposed
 
And the comparison of the PWG Process with the IETF Process is:
PWG Process -- IETF Equivalent
--------------------     ----------------------
PWG Working Draft -- Internet Draft
PWG Proposed Standard -- IETF Proposed Standard
PWG Draft Standard -- IETF Draft Standard
PWG Standard -- IETF Standard
 
and the Last Call requirements are the same for each step as well.
 
The one difference between the PWG process and the IETF process, is that 
you are only requiring interop for going from Draft standard to Standard. 
I think this is a mistake, since one of the purposes of the interop is to 
fix the document.  So I'd suggest adding back interop to going to Draft 
Standard as well.  And that we do interop after a Proposed Standard is 
approved and decide whether to have another version of the Proposed 
Standard or whether we can go on to Draft standard.
 
Right?
 
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 14:29
To: Hastings, Tom N
Cc: Gail Songer; pwg at pwg.org; Seeler, Rick
Subject: Re: PWG> PWG Proposed Standard versus PWG Draft Standard


I don't think it is healthy to relate our process steps to IETF. This is 
an unfortunate artifact. I re-read and feel the doc is pretty clear. 
Last Call (1) + Vote -> Proposed Standard 
Last Call (2) + Vote + Steering Committee -> Draft Standard 
Last Call (3) + Vote + SC + General Acceptance and Interop -> Standard 
I'm sure there is room for clean-up. I will try to remove references to 
IETF and add clarification where necessary and repost the document 
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Harry Lewis 
IBM Printing Systems 
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"Hastings, Tom N" <hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com> 
Sent by: owner-pwg at pwg.org 
12/11/2002 06:01 PM 
        
        To:        pwg at pwg.org 
        cc:        Gail Songer <gsonger at peerless.com>, "Seeler, Rick" 
<rseeler at adobe.com> 
        Subject:        PWG> PWG Proposed Standard versus PWG Draft 
Standard



PWG,

Our PWG Process document needs some work.  There is confusion about the
different steps in the PWG standards process.  Dennis Carney and I re-read
the current process document, available as .pdf from the Chair's page. 

In fact, the Tab at the top of the Chair's page gets you to a different
version of the process document
(http://www.pwg.org/chair/pwg-process-990825.pdf)
than the first process document described as:
Review the Printer Working Group Standards Process document  (pdf) 
(http://www.pwg.org/chair/pwg-process-991021.pdf)
The latter fixes typos in the former with revision marks.  The latter
attempts to map the PWG documents to the IETF documents by saying:

PWG working group charter is equivalent to an IETF working group charter.
PWG Proposed Standard maps to an initial IETF Internet Draft
PWG Draft Standard maps to an IETF RFC Proposed Standard.
PWG Standard maps to an IETF RFC Draft Standard. 
There is no PWG equivalent to the IETF Standard.

The intent of the PWG process was to skip one of the hurdles that the IETF
has.  So the first Last Call would be to transition a PWG Proposed 
Standard
to a PWG Draft standard.  We thought that only one round of 
interoperability
tests were necessary (though more could be held) after reaching PWG Draft
Standard status in order to transition to PWG Standard. 

However, reading the text of the process document (sections 3.3, 3.4, and
3.5) and the table at the end, Dennis and I agree that it isn't very clear
whether the Last Call is needed to get to a Proposed Standard.   If so, 
then
the predecessor to a Proposed Standard is a series of "PWG Working Drafts"
(not versions of a PWG Proposed Standard), according to section 3.3 and 
the
Table at the end.  And then another Last Call to get to a Draft Standard.
And a third Last Call to get to a PWG Standard.  If so, then we would have
the same number of stages in the PWG and the IETF.  If we did, what do we
call the versions of the document before the first Last Call?  These would
correspond to what the IETF calls Internet-Drafts.

The current 5100.1, .2, and .3 say PWG Draft Standard, because they have
gone through their first Last Call, but have not had interoperability
testing.

The Media Standard is silent, so the Media standard looks like it is a PWG
Standard, though no interoperability tests have taken place. 

Anyway, the IPPFAX and PDF/is documents are ready for a Last Call.  We're
just not sure what to call the specifications before the Last Call is
successful:
PWG Working Drafts to become a PWG Proposed Standard
or versions of a PWG Proposed Standard to become a PWG Draft Standard.

Several people ought to take over the PWG Process document and work 
together
after we agree as to how many steps and Last Calls we want.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Gail Songer [mailto:gsonger at peerless.com]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 13:43
To: pwg-announce at pwg.org
Subject: PWG-ANNOUNCE> IPPFax Working Group Last Call for "PDF
Image-Streamable Format - PDF/is" and "IPPFAX/1.0 Protocol" to move to
Proposed


The last "Last Call" incorrectly requested that the two documents in
question be moved to DRAFT.  They instead should be moved to PROPOSED.

The modified "Last Call" is attached.

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All,

This is a working group Last Call to move the specifications "PDF
Image-Streamable Format - PDF/is" and "IPPFAX/1.0 Protocol" to Proposed.

PDF and Word versions of the drafts are posted at the pwg web site as:

     ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/pwg-ifx-pdfis-P04-021122.doc
     ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/pwg-ifx-pdfis-P04-021122.pdf
     ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/pwg-ifx-ippfax-P13-021122.doc
     ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/pwg-ifx-ippfax-P13-021122.pdf


The Last Call notice follows:

This is a formal request for final within the IPPFax Working Group in 
order
to move two documents to Proposed Standard. These documents are "PDF
Image-Streamable Format - PDF/is"  and the "IPPFAX/1.0 Protocol". These 
are
IPP Working Group products, which have been discussed since early 2001. It
is the intent, once all comments have been address, to progress these
documents to Proposed Standard.

Last Calls are for a minimum of 2 weeks. The period for the Working Group
comments will close on Dec 20, 2002(US Pacific time reference).

The relevant documents are:

            Title             : IPPFAX/1.0 Protocol
            Author(s)         : Thomas N. Hastings, Ira McDonald, Paul
Moore, Gail Songer, John Pulera, Rick Seeler
            Filename          :
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/pwg-ifx-ippfax-P13-021122.pdf
            Pages             : 69
            Date              : 22 Nov 2002

IPPFAX is used to provide a synchronous, reliable exchange of image
Documents between clients and servers.  The primary use envisaged of this
protocol is to provide a synchronous image transmission service for the
Internet.  Contrast this with the Internet FAX protocol specified in
[RFC2305] and [RFC2532] that uses the SMTP mail protocol as a transport.

The IPPFAX/1.0 protocol is a specialization of the IPP/1.1 [RFC2911],
[RFC2910] protocol supporting a subset of the IPP operations with 
increased
conformance requirements in some cases, some restrictions in other cases,
and some additional REQUIRED attributes.  The IPPFAX Protocol uses the
'ippfax' URL scheme (instead of the 'ipp' URL scheme) in all its
operations.  Most of the new attributes defined in this document MAY be
supported by IPP Printers as OPTIONAL extensions to IPP as well.  In
addition, IPPFAX/1.0 REQUIRES the support of the IPP Event Notification
mechanism [ipp-ntfy] using the 'ippget' Pull Delivery Method
[ipp-get-method].

An IPPFAX Printer object is called a Receiver.  A Receiver MUST support at
least the PDF/is S Profile as specified in [ifx-pdfis] which is defined 
for
the 'application/pdf' document format MIME type .  A Print System MAY be
configured to support both the IPPFAX and IPP protocols concurrently, but
each protocol requires separate Printer objects with distinct URLs.


            Title             : PDF Image-Streamable Format - PDF/is
            Author(s)         : Rick Seeler
            Filename          :
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/pwg-ifx-pdfis-P04-021122.pdf
            Pages             : 33
            Date              : 22 Nov 2002

PDF/is is an image document format intended for use by, but not limited 
to,
the IPPFAX protocol, which is used to provide a synchronous, reliable
exchange of image Documents between Senders and Receivers. PDF/is makes
reference to the PDF 1.4 Reference [pdf], which describes the PDF
representation of image data specified by the ITU-T Recommendations for
black-and-white facsimile (see [T.4], [T.6]), the ISO/IEC Specifications
for Digital Compression and Coding of Continuous-Tone Still Images (see
[jpeg]), and Lossy/Lossless Coding of Bi-Level Images (see [jbig2]), and
the general purpose Flate compression methods (see [RFC1950] and
[RFC1951]).

PDF/is is an image-only, streamable, subset specification of PDF 1.4 [pdf]
and, as such, follows all of the specification requirements of PDF.

Gail Songer
Peerless Systems Corp
650.358.8875



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