IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of August 4, 2014

Meeting Info

Conference Information

Participants

• Attending
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys DR (Chair)
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx DR
  • Adam Sherer, Cadence DR
  • Satyam Jani, Aldec DR
  • John Shields, Mentor DR
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys DRA
• Not Attending
  • Steven Dovich, P1076 liaison
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence DRA
  • Gael Paul, Accellera DR
  • Jonathan Goldberg, IEEE Professional Services
  • Sourabh Tandon, Synopsys DRA
  • Luis Humberto, Cadence DRA
  • Rod Price, Synopsys DRA
  • Joe Daniels, P1735 Technical Editor
  • Jeff Fox, Altera DR
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence DR
  • Krista Gluchoski, IEEE Professional Services
  • Dmitry Melnick, Aldec DRA
  • Stan Krolikoski, Cadence (DASC Chair)
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys DRA

Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Previous Meeting minutes
5. Guests and new members
6. Action Item Review
7. Liaison Reports
8. Ballot status
9. Schedule
10. General Status
11. Individual Clause Status
12. High-level Objectives
13. Project Plan
14. Other Business
15. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 5/7 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 to approve agenda made by Ray, seconded Adam. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Adam moved and Ray seconded the approval of the July 21, 2014 minutes. The motion was approved.

Guests and New Members

Action Item Review

None.

Liaison Reports

None.

Ballot Status

Ballot is open, closing August 10. At the moment, we have 4 affirmative and 4 unreturned. We have one comment from IEEE saying all editorial requirements are met.

Schedule

Dave reviewed the current schedule:

General Status

In ballot.

Clause 1 - Overview

No further changes are pending.

Clause 2 - Normative References

No further changes are pending.

Clause 3 - Definitions, acronyms, abbreviations

No further changes are pending.

Clause 4 - Trust model

No further changes are pending.

Clause 5 - Interoperability

No further changes are pending.

Clause 6 - Key Management

No further changes are pending.

Clause 7 - Rights Management

Consider adding encryption envelope examples.

Expect comments from Mentor on debugging bad digest and email or other transformation of rights may invalidate the digest. Thre may also be a request for a pragma summary to be placed somewhere in the document.

Clause 8 - License Management

No further changes are pending. An update to the reference implementation for the Accellera forum is pending.

Clause 9 - Visibility

No further changes are pending.

Clause 10 - Common Rights

No further changes are pending.

Annex A - Bibliography

No further changes are pending.

Annex B - Other known issues with IP protection (informative, not normative)

No further changes are pending.

Work Plan

High-level objectives

• Solicit comments for recirculation ballot. Must be posted by Sunday August 10.
• Get on agenda for December revcom ratification.

Project Plan

• Recirculation
  • Review ballot feedback as it arrives
  • Review deferred topics ASAP

Other Business

Dave to update web site including fixing some file permissions - low priority.

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for August 18, 2014 at 16:00UTC.

We will hold a draft development meeting right after ballot closes on August 11, 2014 at 16:30 UTC

Tentative Agenda for next WG meeting

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Previous Meeting minutes
5. Guest and new members
6. Action Item Review
7. Liaison Reports
8. Ballot status
9. Schedule
10. General Status
11. Individual Clause Status
12. High-level Objectives
13. Project Plan
14. Other Business
15. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by John, second by Ray. Approved by acclamation at 16:15 UTC

Approval

These minutes are approved.

-- DaveGraubart - 2014-08-18