IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of September 20, 2010

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Joe Daniels, IEEE Standards Association
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx

• Not Attending
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Gary Delp, Accellera/Silver Loon Systems
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • 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 09/23/2010
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 4/5 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 John. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Ray moved and Dave C. seconded the approval of the August 23, 2010 minutes. John abstained. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Joe Daniels introduced an initiative from IEEE Standards Association to look at gaps in services to entity-based working groups. Joe is looking more specifically on DASC working groups.

John noted that Technical Editing services are a concern in the relatively near term, and help in sourcing that would be helpful. Steven noted that online collaboration tools and services (such as Google Apps) with support for the standards process should be considered. John also noted that planning support could help us with respect to our draft editing and balloting schedule.

Inter-operability

John reviewed the status on his Visibility Management initiative. He observed that visibility is similar to license management in how it relates to rights management, though there is no current consensus on how visibility and rights should be linked.

Steven explained motivation for the Cadence review comments, and John noted that his objective was to put a concrete proposal in place to spur discussion on omitted visibility concerns. New classes/phases, etc...

Dave G asked for clarification about what P1735 Version 1 reflects. Steven pointed to the P1735Recommendations page which contains the current definition. Additional clarification and/or rationale would help to make interoperability investments more likely. John volunteered to contribute some text to help clarify what is or is not included in our current set of recommendations.

License Management

The group discussed what we thought might be needed to finish up this proposal. Dave G will look into a possible guest from Flexera regarding business concerns around the proposed licensing model. He also thinks there might be a potential reference implementation that could be donated.

Key Management

Steven noted that final polish is all he thinks is needed before we can close on a more formal recommendation.

Rights Management

John asked about what to expect for rights management technology donations. Steven gave a summary of contributions from the VSIA discussion, and the pragma syntax proposal due from Cadence (to address requirements raised in the VSIA discussion).

Work Plan

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for October 4, 2010 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 09/20/2010
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 Dave G, second by Duth. Approved by acclamation at 16:35UTC

Approval

These minutes were approved at the October 4, 2010 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 2010-10-04