1 / 16

JDF Product certification The roadmap forward

JDF Product certification The roadmap forward. Rainer Prosi, Chief Technical Officer, CIP4 Mark Bohan, Product Certification WG chair Thursday, January 26 2006. Agenda. Why? Roadmap forward Certification structure Status Progress Current activities Technical issues to be aware of

gwenllian
Download Presentation

JDF Product certification The roadmap forward

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. JDF Product certificationThe roadmap forward Rainer Prosi, Chief Technical Officer, CIP4 Mark Bohan, Product Certification WG chair Thursday, January 26 2006

  2. Agenda • Why? • Roadmap forward • Certification structure • Status • Progress • Current activities • Technical issues to be aware of • Outcomes of certification

  3. Meeting focus • Broad membership input into certification • High level • Concepts • Feedback to the Advisory Board • Regular PCWG meetings • Technical input (ICS details, tools issues) • Marketing/Business input (logos, legal issues, cost) • What, why’s, how's …… • Participation appreciated

  4. Why? Improve communication JDF Vendor A Vendor B ICS

  5. Certification extremes • Quick benchmark • Test against sample files • Fast, quick, cheap • Problems • Everyone would check against the basic files • Would not detect interoperability • Pseudo certification

  6. Certification extremes II • Complete evaluation • Test every possible specification with ICS and every other system • Check everything approach • Problems • Development time • Testing time • Cost • NO ONE WOULD TRY TO BE JDF CERTIFIED

  7. The balancing act Commercial considerations Complete evaluation

  8. ICS documents • Provide the basis for certification • Ensure that products MUST read / write / accept certain conditions • Interoperability between applications • The better ICS documents are created • Better the products will interact and the functionality expanded • Limited functionality in the initial ICS versions • Additional functionality is optional but not certifiable • Multiple levels • More functionality will be added in future ICS versions

  9. Read – Write Conformance • JDF Specification: Describes the valid cardinality of parameters in a JDF or JMF instance • ICS:Specifies conformance requirements for an application or device • W: Must write. The application only conforms, if it always writes the parameter • W?: May Write. Not a Conformance requirement • W: Conditional write conformance. External conditions exist the require an application to write. • !W: Must NOT write. The application does not conform, if it writes the parameter. • R: Must read. The Information must be “parsed and appropriately processed” • R?: May Read. Not a Conformance requirement

  10. Roadmap for certification • Timetable for certification • ICS documents released • Heidelberg Interop (01/05) • Detailed discussion on the way forward • Methods to follow, RFQ • Pittsburgh Interop (04/05) • Decision on tools to use • Software development

  11. Roadmap for certification • Timetable for certification • June 06: Certification against LayCrImp ICS • LayCrImp is a fairly simple ICS • Walk before we run • At least one more ICS in 2006 • Demand driven • Multiple ICS documents if required

  12. Eight released at present Being expanded Several at the point of release They can include several levels Base conformance Built upon MIS base conformance Level 1 - 3 ICS documents http://www.cip4.org/document_archive/ics.php

  13. Certification status: Current work • CIP4 tools for use • Alces: reference “Manager” • Elk: reference “Worker” • JDFEditor: Tool for Capabilities testing, Schema validation, general JDF Editing etc. • ICS to develop Golden Tickets • Working groups and PIA/GATF • Focus on LayCrImp

  14. LayCrimp Certification Status • Write • Capabilities test for LayCrImp completed • Test files complete in February • Testing to begin in February / March • Read • Test files complete by end of February • Testing to begin in March / April

  15. On the radar screen • Number of issues with certification • How to cope with • OEM products • Software / equipment versioning • JDF versioning • Test tool structure and updates • Complexity • Number of companies requesting certification • Bottlenecks due to trade show dates etc.

  16. JDF Certification • On schedule • Provide improved interoperability • Learn with the first certification program • Dependent on quality of the ICS documents

More Related