IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of July 23, 2012

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

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

• Not Attending
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys DR
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys DRA
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys DRA
  • John Shields, Mentor DR
  • 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 07/09/2012
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 4/6 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.

Agenda Approval

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

Previous Minutes

Ray moved and Jeff seconded the approval of the July 9, 2012 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

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

Steven reported that P1800 is still in ballot comment review.

Inter-operability

No activity to report.

License Management

No activity to report.

Key Management

No activity to report.

Rights Management

Common Rights and Visibility

Steven asked for feedback on John's error reporting proposal. The working group is generally happy with the direction, and may be prepared to approval recommendations consistent with that proposal in a future meeting.

Steven asked if the output control ideas from the Cadence donation could be reasonably included under common rights (following the scheme John has defined for error reporting). Ray expressed concern about whether some of those controls would leave the output formatting under-specified in the standard. Jeff noted that netlist outputs from synthesis tools are affected by a large number of tool specific options. Ray replied that keeping the rights definition narrow might help us arrive at the common behaviors that could be controlled independent of which tool vendor was involved.

Joe suggested that the working group review the VSIA and Cadence donations to determine whether there are possible candidates for common rights that are narrow enough and universal enough to include in the common rights definition for this revision of our standard.

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	???

Joe reviewed his expectations for closing the scope of technical material for this revision of the standard by August.

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for Aug 6, 2012 at 16:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 07/23/2012
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 Dave C. Approved by acclamation at 17:06UTC

Approval

These minutes are unapproved.

-- StevenDovich - 2012-07-23