WIMS> Concall- 14 July 11AM NOTE PHONE CHANGE!

From: William A Wagner (wamwagner@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 16:11:10 EDT

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    NOTE CALL-IN CHANGE

    The next WIMS/CIM concall is at 11 AM EDT Monday, 14 July.
     
    The dial-in information is:
    Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-866-469-3239
    Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-650-429-3300
    Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-408-856-9570
    Attendee access code: 21967831

    Don't worry about attendee ID code.

    The agenda is much like last weeks. But Item 4 should be considered in the
    light of the information from Nancy and Rick that boils down to that fact
    that a CIM provider deriving its device information by SNMP access to the
    printer, even when used in conjunction with existing Windows facilities,
    will NOT:
            A. allow printers to be managed along with other network devices by
    some extant general Web Services management capability
            B. Provide anything but a low-level command line user management
    application, roughly equivalent to a simple SNMP browser.

    We need to come up with some conceptual diagrams:

                 SNMP CIM WS-MAN (?)
      Printer <-------->CIM provider proxy <--------->COMOM<------------> WIN-RM
                                                                           (or
    higher level management application)

    Proposed Agenda:
     
    1. Review of 7 July minutes:
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/minutes/cim-wims_080707.pdf and
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/minutes/cim-wims_080707.doc

    2. Counter MIB CIM conversions. Ira posed several questions for which no
    answers are listed
    (ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/mofinput/ira-20080615.zip).
        a. Mapping String length
        b. Config Change Element
        c. Timestamp

    3. Update on Dell Prototyping Activity

    4. MIB-CIM Provider Effort
       a. Ideas on development sponsor...Company that would benefit sufficiently
    to sponsor development
       b. Member Companies willing to contribute funds, manpower for Open
    Printing effort
       c. What do we really want as a result of development?
            1. second implementation of Printer Schema to get out of
    experimental status (Yes)
            2. Freely available, product level release of Provider application
                 a. Who provides executables for which OS?
                 b. Who makes availability known, distributes
                 c. Who maintains software, does customer service
            3. Open source code to be used by Imaging Equipment manufacturers of
    others to produce (proprietary) applications?
    5. Next steps.
     
    Thanks. Hope you can join the call.
     
    Bill Wagner

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