IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of June 1, 2009

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys

• Not Attending
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • Meera Srinivasan, Synopsys
  • 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 5/18/2009
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability testing
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Other Business
12. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 4/5 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 Duth, seconded by Nitin. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Duth moved and Syed seconded the approval of the May 18, 2009 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

P1800 is still working on their ballot responses.

Inter-operability Testing

Discussion postponed until next meeting when Ruchi can attend.

License Management

Key Management

Nitin reviewed his proposals for certificate based key management. Bin asked about security of IP if the public key was widely available. After discussion, we noted that the purpose of the certificate exchange was to enable encryption for other tools, and was not intended to directly support IP decryption.

Syed indicated that IBIS (I/O Buffer Information Specification) is interested in clearer descriptions of the flow, possibly including diagrams. P1735 intends to improve on what is currently available, and we also expect that vendors will provide additional documentation beyond what is provided in the standards world. IBIS is using VHDL/AMS and Verilog/AMS for modeling and is relying on those standards to support encryption.

Nitin asked if there were any further concerns about the current proposal, or any open issues that needed closure. John asked about possible conflicts between X.509 and our specifications. Nitin indicated that we can avoid conflict by adopting a convention that the values of our pragmas conform to the requirements of X.509.

John asked about data management for certificate retrieval, and possible software components that could provide those services. OpenSSL may provide such services in the open-source world, but some additional research is needed.

John asked about conventions for naming and versioning of keys. We also need to understand what impact expiration and revocation would have on our use models. Dave G noted that key compromise was not the only threat, and that a more common concern was cracking the application itself.

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Other Business

Dave G asked to review the remaining open issues at a future meeting (soon).

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for June 15, 2009 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 6/1/2009
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability testing
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Other Business
12. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by Dave G, second by John. Approved by acclamation at 16:26UTC

Approval

These minutes were approved at the June 15, 2009 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 15 Jun 2009