Meeting 79 Minutes

Teleconference, Monday, January 20, 2014, 1700 UTC; 9:00 am Pacific Standard Time

A quorum of 5 out of 5 voting members present. 4 non-voting members were also present.
Attendance and voter status indicated on the
on-line roster .

Attendees

  • Voting members
    • Brett Lammers
    • Yaron Kashai
    • Andrew Piziali
    • Darren Galpin
    • Hannes Froehlich
  • Non-voting members
    • Yuri Tsoglin
    • Karen Ochoa
    • Cristian Amitroaie
    • Stefan Birman

1. Call to order meeting 79 on Jan 20th at 9:05 am PST (1705 UTC)

2. Approval of Nov 11th meeting 78 minutes

  • Solicit motion to approve the meeting 78 minutes
  • Yaron K. motions to approve meeting 78 minutes
  • Andy P. seconded
  • Meeting 78 Minutes approved

3. Status update

  • January 20th Status
    • Working group leaders confirmed
      • Temporal WG - Mike Bartely
      • Messaging WG - Yuri Tsoglin
      • Types and Operators WG - Yuri Tsoglin
      • General WG - Darren Galpin
    • working group activities to start
      • WGs to meet independently or via mail to discuss who is doing what
        • leads should setup calls or meetings (Hannes can setup webex+conf calls if required)
      • WG leader to check that all have access to IEEE standard and docs on the wiki
        (contact Darren if access required)
      • use mantis DB to mark progress, amend specific items under discussion or file new mantis items to track issues
      • plan for WGs: review existing docs, review existing sections in the IEEE standard,
        edit down CDNS doc such that it can be added to IEEE standard
      • 1st pass review (review docs and produce 1st draft for new sections) to be done by end of May 2014
      • editing is to start at the end of May, using the 1st drafts provided by the WGs
      • documents should not be send to reflector, since this is public (use MantisDB)
      • WG leads are responsible for revision control (there is no official infrastructure)

  • November 11th Status
    • Cadence Legal agreements have been sorted out
      • Hannes to provide docs to Darren to post to Wikki
    • 4 WG defined from Darren's email. Need to define leaders for each group
      • Leaders should volunteer via reflectors
      • Yaron: What is the timeframe for these WG to conclude?
        • 1 month to organize WG (Dec 14th)
        • Kick off work beginning of 2014 (Jan 2014)
        • Few months folowing that to complete work
    • Need to identify Editor
      • Specman Editors can help but they are currently busy on a release for end of year
      • Specman Editors can help begining of next year
      • Hannes to check with Amy as to expected workload
  • September 16th Status
    • 6 month contribution period now over. Now it is time to start working on the next draft
      • 10 currently open topics which seem to divide into the following two groups
        • Temporals
        • Messaging
      • Need to get documentation from Cadence on the open topcis
        • In the past this has been FM source from the Specman documentation
        • The doc will be put up on the website in an access controlled section for use by the working groups
        • Hannes took the action to follow up on this
      • Need to get legal approval to take the CDN documenation for use in the standard
        • Darren to send the legal requests form the last go around to use as an exmaple
        • Hannes took the action to follow-up on this on the Cadence side
      • Need to identify an editor for the next revision
        • Need to have Framemaker expereince
        • Hannes took an action to look into this also
    • NOTE: Even thought the contribution period is officially closed we can still accept contributions and decide if we want to include them in this revision
    • Srini asked whether the group would be interested in posting examples/templates that some students he knows have created
      • The current example is an AXI4 VIP but still needs some polishing
      • Darren: Would be willing to post this to the WG website but they need to be clearly marked as freeware open to public usage etc. However this example posting is outside of our WG charter
      • Sirini: Mentioned that he was thinking that these examples could also serve as discussion vehicles and examples for the topic updates for the standard revision.
      • Srini also sent a message to Kishore who may have a better venue for this sort of posting
    • Srini asked about how we coordinate the subcommitee WGs mentioned above.
      • Darren layed out the following steps
        • Define the groups (mentioned above)
        • Identify volunteers to be commitee leaders
        • Identify volunteers to be part of the committees
        • Committe works with the editor to finish out their section/topic
        • Most of the communication/work done via email and Mantis

  • Action Items

    • WG leaders to setup groups and start working on 1st draf

    • Karen and Hannes to provide the already donated CDNS docs in WORD format and put on Downloads

  • Editor Slot
    • Jan 20th Update

      • No Update
    • Nov 11th Update

      • No Update

    • Sept 16th Uptate

      • No Update

4. Other business

  • Any other business?
  • New secretary
    • Brett Lammers is not longer affiliated with e and resigned from his post
    • Darren appointed Hannes as temporary secretary, announced on the 20th of January 2014
    • Darren to call a ballot on the 3rd of February for the new secretary (to last for 2 weeks and close on the 17th of February)
  • Mail a message to ieee1647@edaNOSPAM.org (the general email reflector) if you were not recorded in these minutes

5. Call for essential patents

  • The IEEE-SA updated the patent policy effective April 2008

  • The details are available in updated slide set at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf. (See "Patent related" from the IEEE 1647 home page, "Slides About IEEE Patent Policy").

  • If you believe that any patent claims are essential patent claims, please inform the working group. Review the posted slides for more information.

6. Next meeting

  • Feb 17th at 9am PST ( 1700 UTC )

7. Adjourn

  • Andy P motioned

  • Yaron seconded

  • Motion approved

  • Meeting adjourned at 9:32 PDT (17:32 UTC)

-- HannesFroehlich - 2014-01-23

Topic revision: r1 - 2014-01-23 - 13:01:07 - HannesFroehlich
 
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