Minutes of the April 28, 2005 SV-BC Ballot Resolution Committee Meeting

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aaaaaaaaaa Matt Maidment       - Intel               
aaaaaaaaaa Brad Pierce         - Synopsys 
aaa-aaaaaa Karen Pieper        - Synopsys           
aaaaaaaaaa Dave Rich           - Mentor Graphics     
aaaa--aaaa Cliff Cummings      - Sunburst Design 
-aaaaaa-aa Steven Sharp        - Cadence                   
-------aaa Logie Ramachandran  - Synopsys                      
aaaaaaaaa- Mark Hartoog        - Synopsys  
a-aaaaaaaa Gord Vreugdenhil    - Mentor Graphics
aaaaaaaaa- Francoise Martinolle- Cadence              
--aa-aa-a- Kathy McKinley      - Cadence            
aaaaaaa-a- Doug Warmke         - Mentor Graphics 
--aa--aaa- Surrendra Dudani    - Synopsys 
----a---a- Greg Jaxon          - Synopsys              
--------a- Stuart Sutherland   - Sutherland HDL 
--------a- Dennis Brophy       - Mentor Graphics
-a-------a Don Mills           - LCDM Engineering 
-a-------a Dan Jacobi          - Intel              
---------a Rishiyur Nikhil     - Bluespec

Agenda

+Review IEEE patent policy
  http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt 

Reviewed.

+Review Previous Meeting Minutes
  http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/minutes/sv-bc_05_04_25.txt

Cliff moves to accept the minutes.
Brad seconds.
No opposed.
Gord abstains.
Motion passes.

+Issue Resolution

Remaining Ballot Issues
 93 (SVDB 510) 
 Francoise has not yet had time to submit proposal.
216 (SVDB 693) 
 Resistance to elaboration-time identifiers.  Macros might work.
 AI: Matt to make another proposal for SVDB 693
225 (SVDB 696)
 Implementation looks difficult.  Gord looking for further 
 restrictions that would make it more acceptable.
278 (SVDB 618) - Proposal
 AI: Brad to revisit proposal for SVDB 618

257 (SVDB 697) - Out of scope?
265 (SVDB 698) - Out of scope?

226 (SVDB 623)
Brad moves to accept proposal attached to SVDB 623.
Karen seconds.
No opposed.
Abstain: Dave (schedule too tight to thoroughly investigate this).
Motion passes.
Francoise submitted SVDB 706 to follow-up on this in SV-CC.

275
Brad moves:

"This ballot issue is resolved by the proposal in Mantis #623."

Mark seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion passes.

Pending email ballot:
152
154
155
287
266

Next meeting: Tuesday, May 3rd, 8-10am

Action Items

Completed
04/21/05 Matt send email ballot for ballot issues: 152, 154, 155, 266, 287
04/21/05 Brad to enter resolution of 91 in SVDB 506
04/21/05 Matt include 266 in email vote.
04/21/05 Dave drive issue 227 (SVDB99 & SVDB324)
04/25/05 Matt follow up with Stu on Issue 265
04/11/05 Matt make proposal for 216

Pending
04/04/05 Stu make a specific proposal for Issue 265 no later than April 13
04/21/05 Brad file issue regarding 8.16 language: "operator to each function
  prototype according to the equivalent argument data types in the overloaded
  expression, which normally must match exactly."
04/28/05 Brad revisit proposal for SVDB 618
04/28/05 Matt submit new proposal for SVDB 693