IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of September 17, 2012

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, (chair) Cadence DR
  • Jeff Fox, Altera DR
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys DRA
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx DR
  • Joe Daniels, P1735 Technical Editor
  • Jarek Kaczynski, Aldec DR

• Not Attending
  • John Shields, Mentor DR
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys DR
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys DRA
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys DRA
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Albert Chiang, Synopsys
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence DRA
  • David Pena, Cadence
  • 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 08/06/2012
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.

Altera has filed a Letter of Assurance with IEEE for: U.S. Patent No. 5,978,476 and U.S. Patent No. 7,409,652

Agenda Approval

Motion by Jarek, seconded by Jeff. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Ray moved and Dave C seconded the approval of the August 6, 2012 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items. Altera has completed the Letter of Assurance for a subset of the identified patents. The remainder were internally deemed unrelated to the subject matter of P1735.

Liaison Reports

Jarek reported no encryption activity in P1076 in the past two weeks.

Steven reported that P1800 is still in ballot comment review.

Steven reported on the DASC meeting and the PAR and P&P updates...

Inter-operability

No discussion

License Management

No discussion

Key Management

No discussion

Rights Management

No discussion

Common Rights and Visibility

The group discussed Ray's email from late August and options around obfuscation. Further discussion will continue on the email reflector. Joe noted that it was important to avoid changing common industry understandings with our common rights definitions.

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 October 1, 2012 at 16:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 09/17/2012
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 Ray, second by Jeff. Approved by acclamation at 16:53UTC

Approval

These minutes are unapproved.

-- StevenDovich - 2012-09-17