Rick, you covered the notes I had taken.
I'll add that I think it will be a stretch to map our Channels group into
CIM_IP via Profile... I guess that is yet to be seen.
You are right... we had a lot of time but were cut off at 99.3% so were
left with a key loose end - who to work with and how to proceed.
I sent a note to John directly following the call and will follow up to
close on these issues.
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Harry Lewis
IBM STSM
Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
http://www.pwg.org
IBM Printing Systems
http://www.ibm.com/printers
303-924-5337
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WIMS> CIM> A few notes from today's concall with CIM Core WG
The concall today went reasonably well, and we got much more than our
allotted fifteen minutes of fame. Still didn't quite get thru it all, but
close.
Comments that I heard and noted during the discussion.
- Adding properties to PrintService, no problem. Deprecating properties
is harder. We may get pushback from some people who have already
implemented them, like parts of IBM or HP.
- Need to find out what the history of the changes was. It's their
impression that all the changes were made on behalf of PWG by some
champion in Core. John Crandall will get hold of Steve Jerman.
- For some items such as consoles, covers, channels, maybe counters, it
will likely be better to write a profile that describes how to use
existing classes to model these items. Need to check on the availability
of suitable existing classes.
- Language interpreter might be modeled with SoftwareIdentity; not
entirely clear.
- For some items, we can probably use the Capabilities and Settings
classes and mechanism already in CIM. [Might be reasonable for paper
sizes, media paths, trays.]
- We should take a look at the Profile User's Guide for guidance. [I'll
try to find it.]
Overall, the topic ended very abruptly and I felt left hanging. We need a
working contact or two within Core who can do the education back and forth
about CIM and Printers. We need to look at doing the editorial changes as
"low hanging fruit first." We need to discuss process. They did not seem
to disagree with the scope, but the next steps were not clear to me.
Harry, Ira, et al., do you understand better how to proceed?
rick
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