IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of April 4, 2011

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Jarek Kaczynski, Aldec
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys

• Not Attending
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Albert Chiang, Synopsys
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • David Pena, Cadence
  • Joe Daniels, IEEE Standards Association
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Gary Delp, Accellera/Silver Loon Systems
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • 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 03/21/2011
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Inter-operability Issues
8. License Management
9. Key Management
10. Rights Management
11. Work Plan
12. Other Business
13. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 4/6 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 Jerry. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

John moved and Dave G seconded the approval of the March 21, 2011 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items. The pruning of our e-mail reflector is in progress to comply with IEEE policy. Steven plans to complete and send out the request for self-assessment for approval early this week.

Liaison Reports

John reported that P1076 has an approved PAR and are getting underway. There has been no P1735-related activity yet.

Inter-operability

License Management

Michael has recieved feedback from several people on the protocol, and will be revising the current description for the next meeting.

Key Management

Steven needs to review the rationale to accompany the recommendation. He expects to bring that forward for approval as a recommendation in the next couple of meetings.

Rights Management

Dave G discussed his recent e-mail. Several participants had not received the e-mail and found their copy in their Postini filters.

Steven plans to review the proposal with consideration for:

1. Trust model and inheriting authentication from the tool private key
2. Syntax for extensions and fit with existing pragma grammars in P1800 and P1076

Parminder noted that there were possible techniques for reducing the number of keys by combining tool-specific and common block digests. There was some discussion of using pre-declared formats for key-blocks versus delimiter schemes. There is some opinion from the crypto community that modest delimiter formats do not weaken the system too badly. Balancing the strength of the cryptosystem with integrity management needs some more thought.

John asked about the common block assertion syntax, since the hierarchy of authentication should flow from the key_block with the correct tool private key. Reconciling the conceptual model of the digital envelope with the control block architecture is important.

Work Plan

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for April 18, 2011 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 04/04/2011
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability Issues
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Rights Management
12. Work Plan
13. Other Business
14. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by Dave G, second by John. Approved by acclamation at 16:10UTC

Approval

These minutes are unapproved.

-- StevenDovich - 2011-04-04