IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of April 19, 2010

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Gary Delp, Accellera/Silver Loon Systems
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys

• Not Attending
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Meera Srinivasan, Synopsys
  • Jim Robinson, Synopsys
  • NSS Subramanian, Cadence
  • David Tran, Synopsys

Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 04/5/2010
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability testing
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Work Plan
12. Other Business
13. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 5/5 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 John, seconded by Michael. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Gary moved and Dave G seconded the approval of the April 5, 2010 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Gary agreed to present an overview of IP-XACT activity and how it might relate to P1735 scope and purpose.

John reviewed the presentation he made on behalf of P1735 at the P1800 Study Group meeting. In subsequent discussion, Gary noted that P1801 has begun to deal with IP considerations withing their scope. John and Gary may be positioned to serve as our liaisons to P1801.

Inter-operability Testing

License Management

Key Management

Work Plan

Several items related to our work plan surfaced during John's presentation:

1. Needed controls over behavior (via rights management or some other mechanism) have a tension between precise controls enabled by specific markup in the design, versus a light touch external annotation. Many IP producers prefer not to modify their IP sources in order to protect for release.
2. We might consider formalizing more open annotations as a controllable right (eg SDF). Possible approaches include treating these as a specific grant, or making it a default behavior which can be disabled.

There was a discussion over timeline for publishing P1735 recommendations more widely. Balloting the version 1 interoperability work as an initial standard was raised, rebutted by concerns that we would fail to fully address our scope and purpose. The Sense of the Working Group statement used in one of Gary's other committees was suggested as an alternative vehicle to get our existing agreements more publicly visible to industry.

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for May 3, 2010 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 04/19/2010
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability testing
9. LRM errata
10. License Management
11. Key Management
12. Other Business
13. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by Dave G, second by Dave C. Approved by acclamation at 16:34UTC

Approval

These minutes were approved at the May 3, 2010 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 2010-05-03