A quorum of 4 out of 4 voting members present. 2 non-voting members were also present.
Attendance and voter status indicated on the<a target="_blank" href="http://www.eda.org/twiki/pub/P1647/WebHome/ieee1647_online_roster.xls">on-line roster</a> .

Attendees

• Voting members
  • Andrew Piziali
  • Darren Galpin
  • Yaron Kashai
  • Hannes Froehlich
• Non-voting members
  • Srinivasan Venkataramanan
  • Mike Bartley
  • Yuri Tsoglin
  • Alan Perlman

1. Call to order meeting 85 on September 8th at 9:05 am PST (1705 UTC)

2. Approval of August 11th meeting minutes (meeting 84)

• Yaron motioned, Mike to second

3. Status update

• September 8 Status
  • Temporal WG (Mike)
    • Yuri has taken over documentation on temporal WG
    • Released 2 docs (events.doc and temporal.doc), ready for general review
    • Alan to send out pdf for review
    • Procedural API doc still under construction (few days)
  • Messaging and Types (Yuri)
    • Set type update almost done, sent to Alan for edit
    • Template update under ballot
    • No progress on messaging
  • Darren
    • Ballot on constraints/read_only have gone through
    • Instance based coverage issue dumped on Hannes, to be done in October
    • Darren to start looking at outstanding issues (like TLM interface types)
• Action Items
• Editor Slot
  • September 8 Update (Alan)
    • Currently no change in editing

4. Other business

• Any other business?
  • UVM PAR
    • Trying to add this as an extension to 1800 SV standard
    • Darren: questionable to attach methodology to a languages, this would open the door for every language to add such a methodology document, which leads to misalignment
    • Others expressed concerns. Darren encouraged all to respond with concerns
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5. Call for essential patents

• The IEEE-SA updated the patent policy effective April 2008
• The details are available in updated slide set at<a target="_blank" href="http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf">http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf</a>. (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

• October 20th at 9am PST ( 1700 UTC )

7. Adjourn

• Andy P motioned
• Alan seconded
• Motion approved
• Meeting adjourned at 9:23 PDT (17:23 UTC)

-- HannesFroehlich - 2014-09-08