Minutes of IEEE P1800 SV-AC meeting #10: 04/14/2005
Written by: Surrendra Dudani

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Attendance Record
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		r = represented
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		v = valid voter (3 out of last 4 or 75% overall)
		n = not valid voter

n[--xxxx---xxx] Faisal Haque (Cisco, Chairman)
v[xx-x-xxxxx--] Arif Samad (Synopsys - Co-chair)	
v[xx-xxxx-xxxx] Surrendra Dudani (Synopsys)
v[xxxxxxxxxx--] John Havlicek (Freescale)
v[xxxx-xx--xxx] Joseph Lu (NVIDIA)
v[x-----------] Rishiyur Nikhil (Blue Spec)
v[-----xx-----] Don Baltus (BlueSpec)
v[xxxxxxxxxxxx] Bassam Tabbara (Novas)
v[-xxxxxxxxxxx] Manisha Kulshrestha (Mentor Graphics)
v[-x--xxxx---x] Hillel Miller (Freescale)
v[---xxxxxxxxx] Doron Bustan (Freescale)
v[xxxxxxxx-xx-] Eduard Cerny (Synopsys)
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Agenda:
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- Review IEEE working group rules
- Review Ballot issues

Minutes:
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Ballot comments were reviewed and voted as follows:

#241: Manisha verbally presented the proposal. Unanimous approval, Manisha will email the proposal and put it in mantis.

#266: The proposal by Cliff was reviewed. Unanimous approval.

#20: Proposal by Surrendra in Mantis #509 was voted and approved unanimously.

#92: Faisal will contact Karen to provide clarification of the issue because the
spreadsheet does not say much.

#209: Unanimous approval. with a friendly amendment to add a missing parenthesis.


#217: There is no issue. The semantics are clear. Unanimous approval.

#218: There is no issue. Unanimous approval.

#220: It is an enhancement for future. Not critical to consider now. Unanimous approval. 

#221: This enhancement is not needed. It can be done by other means. Unanimous approval.

#222: tf_port_list definition (pp490, A.2.7) already covers it. No
issue. Unanimous approval.

#284: It is specified on top of pp 224, Section 18.7.3. No issue. Unanimous approval.

#128: Duplicate mantis item entries #408 and #635. The proposal in #635 was voted and approved unanimously.

#210: Already corrected in D4. Unanimous approval.

#211: Already corrected in D4. Unanimous approval.

#212: Already corrected in D4. Unanimous approval.

#213: Proposal by Surrendra in Mantis #664 was voted and approved unanimously.

#214: Proposal by Surrendra in Mantis #665 was voted and approved unanimously.

#219: This language extension may be considered in the next version of SV. Unanimous approval.

Additional Item:
Stu raised the concern that the "levels" argument in Clause 24.9 was not described. It was agreed 
that Surrendra will create a mantis item for it and put the proposal to reference the Verilog system 
task $dumpvars which uses the same argument.
  

Action Items:
1) Manisha to send the final written proposal for the ballot issue #241
2) Faisal to consult with karen on ballot issue #92
3) Surrendra to amend the proposal for ballot issue #209
4) Surrendra to create a mantis item for the description of "levels" argument in Clause 24.9.
5) Faisal to consult with Karen regarding the "levels" argument issue raised by Stu. It is not 
clear whether it can be considered at this time.

No meeting is expected in the short term. The date for the next meeting will be determined later.