By analogy with ordinary partitions into distinct parts (A000009). The empty partition gives T(0,0)=1 by definition. A201376 and A054242 give partitions of pairs into sums of not necessarily distinct pairs.
Parts (i,j) are "positive" in the sense that min {i,j} >= 0 and max {i,j} >0. The empty partition of (0,0) is counted as 1.