[vhdl-200x] VHDL Meeting is starting now.

Hi,
Meeting reminder: VHDL study group meeting is on
Thursday Dec 16 at 8 am Pacific.

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This meeting is an official study group meeting and is
governed by the IEEE patent policy. Please read the
following before the meeting:
   https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/slideset.pdf

Minutes from the previous meeting are here:
   http://www.eda-twiki.org/vasg/meetings/2010_1201_meeting_minutes_unofficial.txt

If this meeting time is not convenient time is not
convenient, please reply to this message with times
that are.

The main agenda will be to discuss and draft a PAR for
P1076. Based on the last meetings discussion, I have
updated the draft PAR:
     http://www.eda-twiki.org/vasg/p1076_2014_draft_par.pdf

Please either bring up issues in the meeting or send
comments to the reflector. Note that I have intentionally
left the descriptions of work to be done generic to allow
us freedom to do what the working group decides to do.

The previous (VHDL-2008) par is here:
   http://www.eda-twiki.org/vasg/p1076_2008_approved_par.pdf

We will continue as needed on the discussion on organization
of the WG. IEEE webpages that describe organization and
participation rules are here:
    http://standards.ieee.org/membership/index.html
    http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/bylaws/sect5.html

One of the questions from the last meeting was what does "openness"
mean. I had the opportunity to ask in the December DASC meeting.
This is what was recorded in the "unofficial" minutes from that meeting:
   [entity/corporate] Membership and Participation Discussions summary:
   Karen provided the following clarifications:
     - Open does not equal free. There are costs associated with producing the standard
     - There are provisions for experts to attend a certain number of meetings (3)
     - A member can continue participating for 6 months after he changes affiliation to a non-member company.
     - A basic entity member company representative can attend and observe
     - An advanced entity member company representative can attend and vote assuming they have met the specific working group requirements for meeting attendance, etc to maintain voting privileges.
        - Non-members can read email archives, but cannot subscribe to a maillist or post as this would constitute participation.

The complete unofficial DASC minutes are here:
     http://www.dasc.org/meetings/2010-12/

Either way we go, long term we will need to determine:
   * how to fund LRM technical editing
   * how to demonstrate that user companies are behind
      any proposed changes.

We do not necessarily need to solve either of these
while writing the PAR.

Please attend and weigh in with your opinions on the
PAR, group organization, and the additional issues.

Best,
Jim Lewis
VHDL Study Group Chair

If you are reading this on the website and wish to receive these
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    http://www.eda-twiki.org/vasg/index.html#Participation

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SynthWorks Design Inc.           http://www.SynthWorks.com
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Expert VHDL Training for Hardware Design and Verification
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