Minutes of IEEE P1800 SV-AC meeting #1: 09/02/04
Written by: Ed Cerny

Next meeting: Thursday, 09/16/04 at 9am PT

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Attendance Record
	Legend:
		x = attended
		- = missed
		r = represented
		. = not yet a member
		v = valid voter (3 out of last 4 or 75% overall)
		n = not valid voter

n[-] Faisal Haque (Cisco, Chairman)
v[x] Arif Samad (Synopsys - Co-chair)	
v[x] Surrendra Dudani (Synopsys)
v[x] John Havlicek (Freescale)
v[x] Joseph Lu (Sun)
v[x] Rishiyur Nikhil (Blue Spec)
v[x] Bassam Tabbara (Novas)
v[x] Eduard Cerny(Synopsys)
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     Karen Pieper (Synopsys) (Guest) Chair, P1800 Errata Technical Sub-Working Group 
 

Agenda:
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- Review IEEE working group rules
- Review timeline for errata work
- Review submitted errata - prioritization

Minutes:
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1) Arif and Karen Pieper went over the IEEE guidelines and the specific Operating guidelines of the P1800 SV committees. 

Karen stressed that the discussion should be strictly of technical nature. Also identified two differences that are specific to IEEE:
- replacement by election
- voting is as individuals and not as company

The new document is to be only corrections (errata) to the Accellera SV 3.1a document, no enhancements.

Deadlines:
09/01/04 - Closure of errata list
09/12/04 - Prioritized list of errata sent to P1800
12/01/04 - Closure of errata list forwarded to P1800.

Vote proposal to accept the guidelines by Karen, seconded by Arif. 
Accepted unanimously.

2) Prioritization of errata:
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- Discussion how to proceed in view of the relatively small number of apparently simple issues: 

- Proposal to categorize only into two groups: "enhancement" and "errata". Only errata would be considered as "immediate" priority.

Vote proposed by Arif, seconded by Surrendra. Unanimously accepted.

- Assignment of sorting of issues into two categories to individuals:
Ed: old 11 issues plus #230
John: all JH and HM issues
Bassam: #228, #229.

- List of "issue # - priority" to be sent ASAP to Surrendra so that he can update the database by September 12 deadline.

3) Preparation of proposals:
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- To be edited as html files and then attached to the database entry of the errata.

- No formatting in the final LRM style needed.

- Bassam proposed (accepted by all) that each time there is a change done to the databse the author will send an email to the committee reflector sv-ac@eda.org and indicate the changes.

4) Review of errata #176 proposed by John:
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- page 205, last sentence: Required change of font to courrier in text for symbols that refer to their occurrenec in examples.

5) Next meeting: Thursday, 09/16/04 at 9am PT
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6) Meeting adjourned at 10h05am PT.