[$ieee-1850] IEEE 1850 PSL Working Group Meeting - 9 May 2006 - Minutes

IEEE 1850 PSL Working Group Meeting 
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Location: Teleconference 
Date: 9 May 2006 

Presiding Officer: Harry Foster, Chair 
Secretary: Erich Marschner 

Website: http://www.eda.org/ieee-1850 

Members: 
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  Accellera 		DR: Harry Foster;     DRA: Victor Berman 
  Cadence 		DR: Erich Marschner;  DRA: Steve Ward 
  IBM 			DR: Yaron Wolfsthal;  DRAs: Avigail Orni, Cindy Eisner, 
                                                 Sitvanit Ruah, Dana Fisman 
* Mentor Graphics 	DR: Steve Bailey;     DRA: Tej Singh 
  Synopsys 		DR: Surrendra Dudani; DRA: Oz Levia 
  Nokia 		DR: Jari Kalinainen 
  Jasper	 	DR: Johan Mårtenson;  DRA: Johan Alfredsson 
  Sun 			DR: Tom Thatcher 
  Intel 		DR: Alexander Levin 

* membership lapsed due to missing 2 or more consecutive meetings

Attendees:
  Erich, Sitvanit, Dmitry P., Tom, Harry, Avigail, Cindy, 
  Johan M., Surrendra, Dmitry K., Sylvain


Attendance Record: 
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Key: 
v : member (= voting priveleges) during this meeting 
+ : present 
_ : absent 
- : absent (but optional meeting) 

Leftmost char = most recent meeting 
| : approval of IEEE 1850 PSL (22 Sep 05) 
* : official meeting - counts towards membership 
- : unofficial meeting - does not affect membership 

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Members: 
v (++++|++++++_++++_+++++_++) Accellera (DR: Harry Foster) 
v (++++|++++++++++++++++++++) Cadence (DR: Erich Marschner)
v (++++|++++++++++++++++++++) IBM (DR: Yaron Wolfsthal) (rep. by DRA: Avigail Orni)
  (____|++++_+++++++++++++++) Mentor Graphics (DR: Steve Bailey) 
v (+_++|++++++++++++_+_+++++) Synopsys (DR: Surrendra Dudani) 
v (__++|+++++++++++++_++++__) Nokia (DR: Jari Kalinainen) 
v (++++|++++++++++++++++++++) Jasper (DR: Johan Mårtenson) 
v (+_++|++++++++_++_+_++++++) Sun (DR: Tom Thatcher) 
v (++++|+++_++______________) Intel (DR: Alex Levin) (rep. by DRA: Dmitry Korchemny)

Observers: 
  (++++|_++_++++++____+_+___) Cindy Eisner (IBM) 
  (++++|+++___++__++++++++++) Avigail Orni (IBM) 
  (++++|__________++++_+__++) Sitvanit Ruah (IBM) 
  (++++|____________________) Dmitry Korchemny (Intel)
  (+_++|____________________) Dmitry Pidan (IBM)
  (+_+_|+++_________________) Sylvain Boucher (Philips) 
  (_+++|___+_+++__________+_) Richard Wallace (Northrop Grumman) 
  (_+_+|_+_+_______+++__++++) Dana Fisman (IBM/Weizmann Institute) 
  (__++|___++_+_____++_+++++) Joseph Lu (Altera) 
  (__++|____________________) Elaine Leingang (SanDisk)
  (__+_|_______+__+__+++_+__) Klaus Winkelmann (OneSpin Solutions) 
  (___+|++___________+__+___) Makarand Joshi (Cadence) 
  (___+|____+++++___++_+____) Andrea Fedeli (ST) 

Inactive: 
  (____|++++_+++++_++++++++_) Tej Singh (Mentor) 
  (____|__++_++____+_++_+++_) Andrew Seawright (Mentor) 
  (____|__++_+_++_+_++_+++++) Mohamed-Lyes Benalycherif (ST) 
  (____|__+__+______++__++++) Bassam Tabbara (Novas) 
  (____|__+____________+_+__) Steve Ward (Cadence) 
  (____|_____+++++++++++_+++) Johan Alfredson (Jasper) 
  (____|______++____+_++_+__) Adriana Maggiore (OneSpin Solutions) 
  (____|_________________+__) Limor Fix (Intel) 
  (____|__________________++) Jin Hou (Synopsys) 
  (____|__________________++) Peter Flake (Synopsys) 
  (____|__________________++) Ben Cohen (consultant) 
  (____|___________________+) J. Bhasker (eSilicon) 


Agenda: 
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Agenda:
   Call to order
     - Attendance Roll Call
     - Patent Policy
     - Approve Agenda
     - Approve Minutes of Last Meeting
   New Business
     - Updating the Project Authorization Request (PAR) 
   Old Business
   Subcommittee Reports
     - Issues Subcommittee
   Next Meeting
   Adjourn
     - Attendance Roll Call

Call to order: 
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The meeting was called to order at 8:05am PST. 

Erich asked who would be representing Mentor.  Harry said that he represented 
Accellera, and that he would work out with others at Mentor who would represent 
Mentor.

Attendance was recorded via roll call. 

The IEEE patent policy slides were presented. The working group was advised 
that the IEEE's Patent Policy is consistent with the ANSI patent policy; that 
early disclosure of patents which may be essential for the use of standards 
under development is encouraged; that such disclosures may not be exhaustive; 
and that the IEEE, the working group, and the working group chair cannot ensure 
the accuracy or completeness of any disclosure. An opportunity was provided for 
the working group members to disclose patents that might be essential for use 
of PSL. No patents were disclosed. 

The agenda was approved.  (Motion: Erich; second: Cindy; no objections)

The minutes of the last meeting (31 Jan) were approved.  
(Motion: Cindy, second: Erich; no objections)

Old Action Items: 
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none. 

New Action Items: 
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Officers: complete PAR update and post for discussion in next meeting. 

New Business: 
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Harry has posted the updated PAR on the web.  Briefly discussed the content of 
the revised PAR, and the reasons for revising it.  The officers will complete 
the revision and present at the next meeting for review.

Harry also mentioned that the IEEE Board of Governors has adopted a policy for 
corporate entity working groups that each entity would pay $3750 per year for 
dues.  More details are needed.  There is a question about what services the money 
would fund, and whether we would need to self-assess additional funds to pay for
the services required to complete the next draft of the standard.  This is also
tied into the PAR update, since the PAR specifies sponsorship of the working group,
and the working group might want to consider changing from being entity-based to 
being individual-based.

Old Business: 
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none.

Subcommittee Reports: 
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  Issues SC:
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  The Issues List has been updated several times recently.
  Sitvanit will be chairing the Issues SC going forward.

Next Meeting: 
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Tuesday 6 June, 8am PDT.  
This will be a working group meeting followed by an Issues SC meeting.

Adjournment:
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Cindy, Erich motioned for adjournment.
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:30am PDT. 

Roll-call

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