IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of April 18, 2011

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • Jarek Kaczynski, Aldec
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys

• Not Attending
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Albert Chiang, Synopsys
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • David Pena, Cadence
  • Joe Daniels, IEEE Standards Association
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Gary Delp, Accellera/Silver Loon Systems
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • 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 04/04/2011
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 4/6 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 Dave G, seconded by Jarek. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Dave G moved and Michael seconded the approval of the April 4, 2011 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Steve reported on the recent DASC meeting and the India SIG ad hoc. John reported that 1076 is still discussing their objectives and he will report back when there is some clarity.

Inter-operability

License Management

Michael made changes to the License Management pages to cleanup readability. He has been addressing how the client and server aspects of license management would be integrated into our protected IP system. He has been prototyping the proposal in Python as a proof-of-concept and plans to post that after some cleanup. He still intends work on the integration with rights management as that consensus becomes a bit more clear.

Key Management

Rights Management

Dave reviewed the motivation for tool-specific and common control blocks. Under a tool-specific control block, the possible rights must be extensible to support proprietary interests. The common control block would likely have additional requirements on inter-operability and behavior when presented with unrecognized rights specification. Dave asked that another entity take ownership of the common rights syntax requirements. John said he intended to drive those aspects related to visibility, and expressed an interest in getting IP authors to play a leading role in defining the common rights specification.

Ray noted that some rights may pose untenable requirements on certain tools, and that appropriate accommodation needs to be considered. Ray and Dave G talked about placing rights in a tool-specific control block to protect against undesirable modification. Steven observed that syntactic solutions didn't provide protection against implementations violating the rules, either through defect or malice. John stated that if transformative tools have to deal with rights tied to a design structure that they modify, then we need to address how those rights should be modified in the transformation.

Work Plan

Steven presented a draft for Funding of P1735 Draft Development. Dave G asked that additional material be included to describe the major technical contributions expected, who the coordinating entity is for consensus building, and some sense of when that consensus might be expected. Steven asked each of the coordinating entities to draft a paragraph meeting Dave's requested justification.

John expects that Visibility will fall under Rights Management.

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for May 2, 2011 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 04/18/2011
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 C, second by John. Approved by acclamation at 16:10UTC

Approval

These minutes are unapproved.

-- StevenDovich - 2011-04-18