IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of August 23, 2010

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys

• Not Attending
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Gary Delp, Accellera/Silver Loon Systems
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • 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 08/09/2010
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Inter-operability Issues
8. License Management
9. Key Management
10. Rights Management
11. Work Plan
12. Other Business
13. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 3/5 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 Dave G, seconded by Ray. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Dave G moved and Ray seconded the approval of the August 9, 2010 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Inter-operability

Dave clarified his previous comments on visibility/rights attributes, referencing the ideas in VHDL attributes where extensions can be made using a standard vehicle. Visibility/rights attributes are different though in the sense that they need to be tamper-proof, and that requirement does make attribute visibility difficult under encryption. Dave noted that was at the heart of his earlier suggestions to keep a copy outside the data_block for documentation and require that all copies are in agreement.

Ray expressed concern that we don't create so many policy variations that implementation becomes excessively difficult. Premature standardization and over-aggressive specification can be as much of an obstacle as no standard at all.

Dave noted that securing the architecture across transformation is an important property, even in the presence of implementation bugs. Transformation flows are more difficult to address because dealing with attributes in a read/write environment is harder than the read-only world of simulation.

License Management

Key Management

Rights Management

Work Plan

Dave asked whether there was additional detail we could represent such as due dates for tasks that put our milestones at risk, and identifying owners for major deliverables.

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for September 20, 2010 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 08/23/2010
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability Issues
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Rights Management
12. Work Plan
13. Other Business
14. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by Ray, second by Dave C. Approved by acclamation at 16:30UTC

Approval

These minutes were approved at the September 20, 2010 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 2010-09-20