Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 6pm US EDT 5 November 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Norm Jacobs (Sun)
Till Kamppeter (Linux Foundation)
Ira McDonald (High North) - Chair, Open Printing
Glen Petrie (Epson)
Keisho Shida (Canon)
Yasumasa Toratani (Canon)

Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)

• (0) Other printing news

      - Ira began work as a full-time consultant last week at Samsung
  

• (1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting

      - See
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/OP-SC-Minutes-20071001.pdf
  
      - Discussion
        - Not reviewed
  

• (2) Report on Open Printing Japan meeting - Till Kamppeter

      - See latest agenda at:
      https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/LFJapanSymposiumTokyo2007
  
      - Discussion
        - Till - Wed/Thu - Report on visits with Ricoh, Avasys, and Canon
          - Distro-independent driver packages
          - Feature requests - Foomatic Web API
            - Full-license text
            - Locale codes search (language tags)
            - Links to driver packages (at vendor site)
            - Drivers with dependencies (e.g., proprietary plug-ins)
        - Till - Friday - Report on OP at LF Summit
          - Future OP meetings twice per year aligned with LF Summit
          - Presented Montreal slides
          - Embedded Printing
        - Shida - More fine-grained status for OP projects
          - For example, JTAPI (spec complete, no reference code)
        - Shida - Printer Driver Compatibility Test
          - See Glen's recent proposal
          - Question about correct driver for compatibility test
        - Till - PDF as standard intermediate print job format
          - pdftoijs and pdftoraster
          - Glen - misunderstandings about usage?
        - Till - HP considering moving from IJS to CUPS Raster
          - Ira - So IJS goes away in LSB 4.0?
          - Glen - frustration with discussion about IJS in LSB 3.2
          - Norm - existing HP printers will need IJS in the future
          - Concensus - leave IJS in LSB 3.2 Printing for end users
  
      - ACTION
        - Till - write up summary of Open Printing Japan meeting
        - Shida - write up suggested standard status terms for OP SC
        - Shida - seek guidance on best "compatibility" terms for Japanese
  

• See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

• (1) Twelfth 2007 SC meeting

      - Monday 3 December 2007, Evening
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          5pm in Chicago - US CST (Central Standard Time)
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          11pm in Coimbra, Portugal - WET (Western European Time)
  
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• (2) First 2008 SC meeting - tentative

      - Monday 7 January 2008, Evening
        - US/Europe
  
      - Tuesday 8 January 2008, Morning
        - Japan