The participants of a physical modeling meeting held on
February 1st 2000 at LSI Logic recommend the following
proposal for approval by the OVI board.
The recommendation reflects the opinion of the individual
attendees.

Nancy Nettleton		Sun
John Peters		Philips
Tim Jennings		Philips
Antonio Lagnada		LSI Logic
Anand Sethuram		LSI Logic
Dhaval Sejpal		IBM
John Beatty		IBM
Joe Morrell		IBM
Paul Zuchowski		IBM
Tim Baldwin		Cadence
Tom Belpasso		Cadence
Simon Favre		Monterey
Wolfgang Roethig	NEC
Jay Abraham		Si2
Priti Vijayvargiya	Synopsys
Joe Daniels		Intrinsix

16 attendees total, 15 in favor of the proposal, 1 abstention

Proposal:

A) The physical library description features developed
   in ALF language shall be included in the ALF standard.
   The ALF standard shall define only the description capability.
   It shall NOT be mandatory that ALF libraries contain ALL
   information describable in the ALF language.
   In particular, ALF libraries containing no physical information
   as well as ALF libraries containing only physical information
   shall be valid, if they conform to the ALF language.

B) The proposed ALF 2.0 release shall include the physical
   library description features.

C) The proposed ALF 2.0 release is still on schedule for Q1 2000.
   That means that the contents of the ALF 2.0 will be complete in
   Q1 2000. OVI shall own the schedule for the approval cycle.
   However, official approval of ALF 2.0 as OVI standard is desired
   before end of Q2 2000.

D) The ALF/OPEF workgroup will continue and enhance its existing
   working relationship with the OLA workgroup.
   Joint meetings are recommended, in order to ensure data model
   compatibility.

E) IEEE standardization will be initiated immediately after the
   OVI approval of ALF 2.0, in the process of which the copyright
   for ALF 2.0 will be transferred from OVI to IEEE.

F) IEEE ALF shall have its own PAR number and schedule.
   However, ALF and OLA shall be positioned as related standards
   in the description of both PARs.
   Therefore the IEEE ALF workgroup will closely collaborate
   with the IEEE OLA workgroup.

G) The physical design description language may be developed
   as the PEF standard under the auspices of OVI.

H) The PEF workgroup should seek collaboration with SI2 in order
   to ensure datamodel compatibility with DEF and CHDstd.

I) The formation of a steering committee comprising representatives
   from EDA vendors, ASIC vendors, system companies is recommended.
   The purpose of this steering committee is to create consensus
   within the industry, endorse and promote the technical work.
   Existing standardization organizations such as OVI, SI2 or others
   can jointly serve as embodiment of such a steering committee.

J) A relationship of this work with SIPPS is recommended
   based on requirements for technology representation within
   the scope of this work.