IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of September 17, 2008

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Webex

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys

• Not Attending
  • 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 9/10/2008
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. License Management
8. Key Management Issues
9. Other Business
10. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 4/4 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 John, seconded by Dave C. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Dave G. moved and Michael seconded the approval of the September 10, 2008 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Initialization Vector changes are integrated into draft 7 of Verilog.

License Management

Michael described two problems relating to license management:

• How do we make licensing secure?
• How do we make licensing easy to manage for IP providers?

Dave G discussed the open issues around a neutral license service provider, including:

• Who should/will provide this service
• What platforms will be supported
• What are the security issues around shared libraries in the current model

John noted that this has been an area where the security issues have been left alone in the interest of preserving compatibility with IEEE 1364-2005.

The desired contract for licensing services should include:

• Allow/Deny decision on some specified function/behavior

The group discussed how IP providers could provide the support for licensing and what the standard can specify to enable appropriate parties to deliver licensing to IP consumers. There is a need to build a consensus from each of the major stake-holders to the licensing question.

Static linked licensing support improves security at the cost of reducing flexibility in license administration. A question to address is whether we can make dynamic library API's sufficiently secure.

%ACTION{ closed="2008-10-08" closer="" created="2008-09-17" creator="Main.StevenDovich" due="" notify="Main.StevenDovich" state="closed" uid="000044" who="Main.MichaelSmith" }% Research technical approaches to secure API services from dynamic libraries

Key Management Issues

Michael asked if there was intent to provide support for IP Author key exchanges. The answer is yes, as long as public keys are intended.

Other Business

Adjournment

Motion by John, second by Dave C. Approved by acclamation at 1:24 pm CDT

Approval

These minutes were approved at the October 1, 2008 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 01 Oct 2008