IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of December 1, 2008

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Webex

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys

• Not Attending
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Meera Srinivasan, Synopsys
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Jim Robinson, Synopsys
  • NSS Subramanian, Cadence
  • David Tran, Synopsys
  • Gary Delp, LSI

Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 11/17/2008
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. License Management
8. Key Management Issues
9. Other Business
10. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 3/4 eligible entities, and have a working quorum.

Patent Policy

The Patent slides were offered for review.

No new claims were disclosed at the call for essential patent claims.

Agenda Approval

Motion by Dave G, seconded by Bin. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Michael moved and Dave G seconded the approval of the November 17, 2008 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

CAG report due this week.

License Management

Duth has discussed license check points and lifetime internally. The Xilinx preference is to checkout and hold for the duration of the activity. John expressed doubts about the value of the decrypt license, compared to the runtime license.

%ACTION{ closed="2013-09-16" closer="" created="2008-12-01" creator="Main.StevenDovich" due="2011-07-15" notify="" state="closed" uid="000050" who="Main.StevenDovich" }% Describe how the decrypt and runtime licensing activities are intended to differ %ENDACTION%

Recapped discussion of internal vs external together with pros and cons. Xilinx discussions are leaning towards the internal model, but there are concerns about verifying the security of models in a variety of flows with multiple tools. The motivation is principally around security and ease of implementation. Rights management issues are also a major concern.

%ACTION{ closed="2009-03-04" closer="Main.StevenDovich" created="2008-12-01" creator="Main.StevenDovich" due="" state="closed" uid="000051" who="Main.StevenDovich" }% Arrange a presentation on licensing security issues from EDAC (Scott Baeder) %ENDACTION% %ACTION{ closed="2010-05-03" closer="Main.StevenDovich" created="2008-12-01" creator="Main.StevenDovich" due="" state="closed" uid="000052" who="Main.DaveGraubart" }% Author an abstract reference model for licensing, including business considerations, with Michael %ENDACTION%

Key Management Issues

Other Business

Need to schedule rights management as soon as donation process is completed.

Adjournment

Motion by Karlton, second by Dave G. Approved by acclamation at 11:27 pm CDT

Approval

These minutes were approved at the December 8, 2008 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 08 Dec 2008