IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of March 19, 2012

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence DR
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys DRA
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx DR
  • Jarek Kaczynski, Aldec DR
  • John Shields, Mentor DR
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys DRA
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys DR
  • Bassam Tabbara, Synopsys
  • Joe Daniels, Self
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys DRA

• Not Attending
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Albert Chiang, Synopsys
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence DRA
  • David Pena, Cadence
  • 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 03/05/2012
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 Dave G, seconded by Jarek. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Jarek moved and Dave G seconded the approval of the March 5, 2011 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Steven is working w/ IEEE SA Professional Services on Technical Editor contracts. Joe Daniels indicated that he hasn't heard from IEEE and will be waiting for further guidance from them before starting work on P1735.

VHDL WG has been briefed on interoperability changes that need to be added.

Inter-operability

Jarek has no further additions to his previously reported issues. John noted that his review of the issues did not raise any concerns. Jarek is engaged in further bi-lateral testing. John, Dave G, and Steven also acknowledged participation in bi-lateral testing engagements.

The group discussed updating entries on the Interoperability Registry.

License Management

Dave G reported on internal progress and expects to have a proposal for consideration in the next 2-4 weeks.

Key Management

Dave G discussed the Key Scope text he added to the Key Management white paper and the Recommendations. Steven stated that an approval vote would be called at the next meeting for the Key Scope recommendations.

Rights Management

Dave asked for working group approval for the Rights Management. John noted that big picture structure held promise, but that there were some details that he was concerned about. As an example, he sees the Common Rights Block as adding no value to the standard because there is no common rights profile. Dave G noted that the common rights development had been separated in the interest of progress. John agreed but expressed the concern that without at least some common rights subset, the value of including a control structure is diluted. The wasn't an objection to moving forward with approving the Control Block structure while continuing to work on the common rights definition.

The details on the version pragma and encryption-version will be clarified in the Recommendations page and Steven will call for approval at the next meeting.

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	???

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for April 2, 2012 at 16:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 03/19/2012
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 16:55UTC

Approval

These minutes are unapproved.

-- StevenDovich - 2012-03-19