IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of September 19, 2011

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence DR
  • Jarek Kaczynski, Aldec DR
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys DRA
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys DR
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx DR
  • John Shields, Mentor DR
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys DRA

• Not Attending
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys DRA
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Albert Chiang, Synopsys
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence DRA
  • David Pena, Cadence
  • Joe Daniels, IEEE Standards Association
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Gary Delp, Accellera/Silver Loon Systems
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence DRA
  • 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 07/25/2011
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Inter-operability Issues
8. License Management
9. Key Management
10. Rights Management
11. Common Rights and Visibility
12. Work Plan
13. Other Business
14. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 5/6 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 Jarek, seconded by John. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Dave G moved and Jarek seconded the approval of the August 22, 2011 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Steven reviewed his work on proposals for the next P1800 draft. The working group commented and made suggestions to improve the proposals. Steven intends to distribute proposal when it is more complete.

John reviewed work in P1076 on conditional compilation, and asked for comments and contributions to influence or support that work. John and Jarek are beginning work to capture the P1735 recommendations which imply changes to the VHDL standard.

Inter-operability

John asked that we plan to add the new Licensed Digital Envelope use-case to our Recommendations after working group review. He also requested feedback from those who haven't responded yet.

John and Dave discussed the impact of internal vs. external licensing on the Licensed Digital Envelope use case. John plans to update the recommendations with his revised use-case text.

License Management

Key Management

Rights Management

Common Rights and Visibility

Work Plan

Task	Requirements/White Paper	Writer-ready Specification
Use Model	02-Jul-2008	???
Trust Model	???	???
Interoperability	24-Aug-2009	26-Jan-2010
License Management	19-Apr-2011	???
Visibility Management	23-Jul-2010	???
Key Management	18-Oct-2010	12-Aug-2011
Rights Control Structures	27-Jun-2011	???
Common Rights	23-Jul-2011	???

John moved that we self-assess in support of a Technical Editor for P1735. Dave C seconded the motion. Dave G asked for that a breakdown of man-month estimates and timeframes be added to the formal self-assessment document. After discussion, Steven will add a high-level budget breakdown, and a schedule from the funding milestone to to self-assessment request, and will forward that for e-mail approval under John's motion, with the voting to conclude at 11:59pm US/Pacific on September 23, 2011.

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for October 3, 2011 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 09/19/2011
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability Issues
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Rights Management
12. Common Rights and Visibility
13. Work Plan
14. Other Business
15. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by Dave G, second by John. Approved by acclamation at 16:31UTC

Approval

These minutes are unapproved.

-- StevenDovich - 2011-09-19