IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of September 3, 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
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • John Shields, Mentor

• Not Attending
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • 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 8/27/2008
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Key Management Issues
8. Other Business
9. 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 Ruchi. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

John moved and Dave G seconded the approval of the August 27, 2008 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Steve noted that we have recieved info on the Funded Services from IEEE SA.

Key Management Issues

John discussed his reflections on the proposal:

1. Existing structures for key representation in the standard are relatively crude and are not shared by other standards and specifications.
2. Proposal leverages external standards in a satisfying way.
3. Trust management scales nicely
   1. From self-signed certificates through hierarchical signing
4. We should not require CA signed certificates, instead leave that to the IP authors and tool vendors to agree on.

Dave G recalled early considerations at Synplicity where they copied the key into the IP.

John noted that we need to be authoritative about mapping from key_owner/key_name to the selection query on available certificates. He also identified certificate validity as an issue, and that this could be of interest to both tool vendors and IP authors.

%ACTION{ closed="2013-09-20" closer="" created="2008-09-03" creator="Main.StevenDovich" due="2011-07-25" notify="Main.StevenDovich" state="closed" uid="000039" who="Main.StevenDovich" }% Investigate certificate validity issues and propose a recommendation for P1735

Re-opened in P1735DeferredActionItems %ENDACTION%

John and Dave C discussed the alignment between signature algorithms and our own recommendations for algorithms.

%ACTION{ closed="2013-09-20" closer="" created="2008-09-03" creator="Main.StevenDovich" due="" notify="Main.StevenDovich" state="closed" uid="000040" who="" }% Analysis of IP author perspectives on certificate expiration

Re-opened in P1735DeferredActionItems %ENDACTION%

%ACTION{ closed="2011-01-11" closer="" created="2008-09-03" creator="Main.StevenDovich" due="" notify="Main.StevenDovich" state="closed" uid="000041" who="Main.NitinKhurana" }% Revise the Key Management proposal to capture detailed recommendations %ENDACTION%John asked if there was any expectation that we should have a mechanism to exchange secrets, or was that an out-of-band issue. For example, exchanging a symmetric key in a IP Author secret key use case. We need to be clear about the implications of what we recommend.

Other Business

Adjournment

Motion by John, second by Dave C. Approved by acclamation at 1:12 pm CDT

Approval

These minutes were approved at the September 10, 2008 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 03 Sep 2008