[sv-cc] SV-CC Meeting Minutes for 12/19/2007

From: Charlie Dawson <chas_at_.....>
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 12:55:49 PST
Minutes of 12/19/2007 SV-CC Meeting.

ATTENDEES
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xxxxxxxxxxx-xxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx Charles Dawson
xx-x-xxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-x-xxxx Ralph Duncan
xxxxxxxx--xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Jim Vellenga
-xx--xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx-x-xxx Andrzej Litwiniuk
xx-xxxx---xx--xxxxx-xxxx--xxxxxx-x Michael Rohleder
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx Chuck Berking
-xxxxx-xx--xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxx Bassam Tabbara
xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xx-xx-x-xxxxxxx Francoise Martinolle
xxxxxxxx---xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx- Ghassan Khoory
xxxxxxxx-----xxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxx Abigail Moorhouse
-xx-x------xxx-x--x--xxxx----xx-xx Amit Kohli
---x-xxxx--xxxx------------------- Pankaj Pal
--x-xxxxx--xxxx------------------- Anil Arora
-----x-x----xx-------------------- Arjinder Vasir
------------------x--------------- Stu Sutherland
----------------x----------------- Gord Vreugdenhil
xx-------------x-----xx----------- Steve Dovich
-------x-------------------------- Neil Korpusik
----x----------------------------- John Havlicek
x--------------------------------- John Shields


1.  Reviewed Patent information

   - Chas reviewed the patent information which can be
     found at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt


2.  Reviewed minutes for 12/05/2007
   Ralph/Chuck.  ACCEPTED


3.  Liaisons

   - Francoise reported that the names resolution issues were
     passed by the SV-BC (1809).  That one has links to the others.
     We now need to review them to see what the impact is on VPI.
   - Chas reported on the P1800 meeting.  Chas forgot to bring up that
     we need to be clear when we are speaking for the committee.  Chas
     will send a note to the P1800 committee.
   - No other meetings to report on.


4.  New business

   - Mark Item 2193 as a duplicate of Item 2226
     Abi/Chuck.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Problem with Item 0417
     This fix was lost in the merge of the document.  Postpone debate
     on this.  Chas will ask the editor if he can just fix it or how
     best he wants it handled.  Jim will send Chas a list with the things
     he has noticed were lost.

   - Cannot update item 1570?
     Ralph has a version of the proposal but cannot update the new file.
     Ralph will send the update to Chas and he will update.

   - Item 1503
     Jim thinks there is one more issue that Lisa put out that Bassam has
     not responded to.  Postpone discussion until Bassam is at the meeting.

   - vpiProtected vs. vpiIsProtected
     There is a vpiProtected property on several objects (like modules) but
     it is not clear what the definition property is.  The encryption section
     uses vpiIsProtected and defines what it should be.  vpiIsProtected is not
     in the include file.  vpiProtected should be deprecated.  Someone should
     put a proposal together.  Steve will put a proposal or two proposals to
     add vpiIsProtected to the include file and to deprecate vpiProtected.

   - discussion on handle lifetime

     John Shields believes that Mentor is at an impasse.  They haven't been
     able to find a compromise that satisfies everyone.  John would like to
     withdraw the proposal that is already out there.  Abi wanted Michael to
     comment on use models and see if there is justification to do the work
     needed to make it usable.  Michael thought that the proposal was
     hard to understand; thinks he understands the issue.  Basic requirement
     that the application needs to know that an object has gone away.  Maybe
     we could have a "copy object" function?  How would you differentiate it
     from a first class object?  Could only use it to retrieve properties.
     The copy would be static at that point.

     Michael moves that we ask the P1800 committee for more time to resolve
     the issue.  Chuck seconds.  We have until 2/15/08.  Steve suggests that
     we be very frank about the issue, and be clear on the impact it will
     have during ballot.  ACCEPTED (unanimous)
     JohnS took an action to compose a draft of the message which we will
     finalize at our next meeting.

5.  Reviewed items with proposals

   - Item 1741 1800-2005 Section 27.50 Issues with foreach diagram
     JimV/Chuck.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Item 2054 Draft 3A, Section 40 - Deprecate Data Read API
     Chas thinks that if Bassam and Ghassan do not come up with proposals
     for the open items in the data read API then we should pass this.
     Chuck proposes postponing debate until it is clear how Bassam and
     Ghassan are doing.
     JimV seconds.  ACCEPTED

   - Item 1952 "Null Argument" to mean "omitted Argument" may be confusing
     Michael/Ralph.  PASSED (unanimous)

Chuck/Ralph.  Meeting ended at 12:59pm.

6.  Reviewed SV-CC items with proposals (Straw poll only)


7.  Old Business


8.  Action items

   - Francoise and Bassam to continue work on assignment patterns.
   - Francoise to champion adding support for typed parameters to the
     typespec diagrams.
   - Abi/JimV to champion improving the ability to compare objects.
   - Steve to send out exact text on referring to a prior version.
   - Francoise and Bassam to figure out what should happen when you get the
     size of a string constant.
   - Bassam and Ghassan to prioritize list of issues with Read API.
   - Bassam to file a Mantis Item and add a proposal to resolve the issues
     with arguments to property inst.
   - Chas to send SV-BS request to work on Item 0672.
   - Chas to add to agenda a discussion of additional meeting times.
   - Chas to send SV-AC notification of our acceptance of the proposal for Item 1361.
   - Chas to send the P1800 committee a request that the other committees be
     clear when a member of the committee is speaking for the committee.
   - JohnS to write draft of request to P1800 for more time.
   - Chas to update Item 1570.
   - Chas to ask the editor about Item 0417.
   - Steve to write a proposal for dealing with the inconsistencies with the
     protection properties.

9.  Items for consideration at the next meeting (they already have proposals)

   - Item 2094 Need to extend VPI to handle class specializations
   - Item 0748 vpiParent of var select can only be array var
   - Item 1599 The assertion API and VPI sections need changes as per mantis #805
   - Item 1230 How to represent packed arrays of complex types in VPI
   - Item 2218 Clarify meaning of vpi_compare_objects()
   - Item 2216 Details missing from VPI Generates object diagram
   - Item 2143 How should VPI handle index expressions with side effects?
   - Item 2054 Draft 3A, Section 40 - Deprecate Data Read API


10. Next meeting

    The next SV-CC meeting will be on 01/02/2008.
    The next P1800 meeting will be on 01/31/2008.

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