1. AFP Consortium
Update May 2010

2. AFP Consortium Purpose
The purpose of the AFP Consortium is to develop, define and promote the AFP architecture. It's goals are to:
Develop AFP as the best-of-breed presentation architecture for monochrome and color production variable-data printing
Ensure seamless interoperability of AFP products from the various AFPC members
Provide for compatibility between AFP environments and other presentation environments such as web/view.
Short history of the consotium, why was it founded, what is the purpose and the goal of the incoporation.

3. Members February 2010 Core (8) IBM InfoPrint Solutions ISIS Papyrus
Kodak
MPI Tech
Océ
Streamserve
Xerox
Participating (18)
Assentis
CDP
Cincom
Compart
Crawford
CRE-DO
DocPath
Elixir
FIS (was Metavante)
GMC HP
Lexmark
Oracle
Pitney Bowes
Printsoft
PunchGraphix
Sefas
Solimar
Associate (3)
COPI
LRS
TAGG Informatique
Just a quick flash of who we are.

4. Board of Directors Roberto Anzola (ISIS) Paul Gerelle (MPI Tech)
Jeffrey Paterra (Infoprint Solutions)
Michele Pracchi (Océ)
Carlo Sans (Xerox)
And more on who we are

5. Officers The Board of Directors appointed the following AFPC Officers.
President - Harry Lewis (InfoPrint Solutions)
Secretary - Harry Lewis (InfoPrint Solutions)
Treasurer - Paul Gerelle (MPI Tech)
And even more

6. Architecture Architects
Main architects from InfoPrint Solutions Company.
Reinhard Hohensee: Overall AFP; MO:DCA, PTOCA, GOCA
Harry Lewis: phasing into Reinhard's work 
Dave Stone: IPDS, BCOCA, FOCA
Dennis Carney: phasing into Dave's IPDS work   
Nenad Rijavec: IOCA
Roger Buis: AFP Line Data
Tim Towns (replaced Jean Aschenbrenner): CMOCA

7. Focus Areas Maintaining the Architecture New Conformance Level (IS/3)
Metadata
Archiving
My view of the main focus areas
Will be covered in the next slides

8. Additions and Changes Multipage containers Image Resolution Triplet
Clarification to specification of TIFF and JPEG supported
Editorial changes for various bar codes
New proposals for work
Specification of ”mixing rules”
Specification of Printer Setup settings
New Architecture Manuals to be published on AFPC website
Maintainance of the Architecture
Show a few upcoming features to show that the architecture is evolving.

9. New Conformance Level (IS/3)
Remember the goal of AFPC
Ensure seamless interoperability of AFP products from the various AFPC members
Interoperability is the key word. This is the reason to make a new level.

10. New Conformance Level (IS/3)
Subset of the AFP-MO:DCA and IPDS Architecture
Foreward-looking level, therefore does not include
Obsolete or Retired functions
Non-strategic functions
not widely implemented
Interoperability is the key issue
Product A
A few words on what the concept is and why we are doing it. Talk about joining products from multiple vendors and how this is the customers guarantee that the whole line of products will work togetter.
Referer til Kims snak om multivendor problematik.
Product B

11. Metadata Metadata or Data about Data
Description of the data to which it refers
Characterics of the data
Workflow information
Data Management information
Keywords for search
Date/timestamp of creation
Copyright information
Objecttype information (JPEG, Bar Code, etc.)
A short description of what the term METADATA refers to.
No details just a list of some of the possible uses of metadata.

12. Metadata (Now) AFP NOOP and TLE Non AFP RDF Dublin Core XMP IEEE-ISTO
EXIF
All sorts of non standard information
A lot of customers are already storing metadata information in their AFP streams using NOOPs or TLEs.

13. Metadata in AFP - Future
Definition of a new Metadata - OCA
Structured Metadata
Support for (some) existing metadata formats
A few words of about the benefits of a structured metadata instead of proprietary metadata. Again interoperability is a key issue.

14. Archiving
For an archive strategy to be legally sound, it must ensure that the presentation of the archived data, when retrieved, is identical to the presentation before archiving.
Such a strategy mandates that the data is archived in its native format.
If the data is generated in AFP format to be printed/viewed/distributed, it needs to be archived in the same AFP format.

15. Archiving To ensure an AFP Archive file can be presented in the future
All resources must be inline
No device depended functions like
Default font
Default color
AFP Archive will be based on the new conformance level with additions of Metadata
AFP Archive will be an ISO Certified format
Emphasize the ISO certification!

16. Future meeting schedule
October 2010 in Boulder
February 2011 virtual meeting
April 2011 to be announced
October 2011 to be announced
MPI Tech to host AFPC meeting in Denmark

18. What can AFPC do for You? Provide information on AFP and IPDS
Check
Listen to your input on new functionality
Contact me or
the APFC precident