|
Meeting
26 Minutes
1.
Call to order
Meeting was called to order at 09:04
PST/17:04 GMT. 2.
Approval of minutes from meeting 25
First order of business is approval of the minutes from
meeting 25. 3.
Status Update
3.1 – Election
results The election results are confirmed
as follows: ·
Chair – Andy
Piziali ·
Vice-Chair – Steve
Pearlmutter ·
Secretary – Serrie Chapman (on
vacation today) 3.2 – Donation
updates Six documents have been donated by
Cadence for 1647-2008: 1.
Name Spaces. This will be annex C of
the new document, and will be available today on the
website. 2.
Encapsulation. This will be chapter
22, and will be available today on the website. 3.
Method Ports. This is being reviewed
internally by Andy, Matan and Joe. There are some restrictions on
implementation, but it should be available for review by the February
meeting. 4.
Messages. A rough document is ready,
but has not been seen by Joe. Still being reviewed by Andy and
Matan but should be available for review by the March meeting. 5.
Sequences. Document has been pared
down from the original, and is being reviewed by Andy and Joe. Will be available
for review by the February meeting. 6.
Reflection API. Initial documents
being finalised. It was initially stated that this should be available for
review by the February meeting, but Joe clarified this and suggested that it
probably would not be ready until March. 3.3 – Work
Plan Andy: The one year outlook is as
follows:- ·
Review documents in Q1&2
2007 ·
Ballot in group end of
2007 ·
Ballot revision early
2008 The six month plan is as
follows:- ·
January - review name spaces and
encapsulation documents. ·
February - review
sequences and method ports documents ·
March - review messaging and
reflection documents and iterate on feedback. ·
April - iterate on document
feedback. ·
May - iterate on document
feedback. ·
June - distribute draft 1647-2008
LRM. Andy: Is this
reasonable? Yaron: It sounds reasonable to
me. There were no other comments on the
plan. Andy: I’ll be soliciting help by
e-mail, and will be using the issue tracking system on the
website. Joe: Now is when you ask for help
before the arm twisting starts. Andy: I will approach people
individually, and won’t ask in this public forum. Yaron, can we start populating
the issue tracking system now? Yaron: Yes. You can decide later
what to include. 4.
Other Business
Andy: I suggest that we have
quarterly face-to-face meetings. I believe we can accomplish more discussing
this in front of a white board, and it will improve the working relationship.
Comments? Can people travel? Joe: It is good to get together,
read body language etc. March might be good for a first date. The monthly
meetings are for status, and most of the work can be done by e-mail. Quarterly
meetings are good for discussing issues and impacts. You need the right set of
people so that we can do this and it doesn’t become a
boondoggle. Andy: Yaron, your
thoughts? Yaron: It’s challenging. I never got
to the point where it was feasible. Now attendance is stable, propose a date, go
for it, see who can attend. Andy: Henry,
thoughts? Henry: Quarterly is tough. At least
once a year to see who is at the end of the phone. Andy: I’ll suggest a date. We can
always rotate locations to make this easier. Joe: Which other companies are here
apart from Cadence? Andy: Pos-edge,
Infineon Stelios:
Globetech…… Matan: We are Cadence but in
Joe: We could always go to
Andy: Any other
business? Matan: What appears on the download
page on the website? I worked on the initial sequences document which Cadence
donated. Will it be used? Andy: Perhaps you joined late. Joe
and I will review the sequences document, and we will post the revised document
on the website in February. Joe: We need to look at the document
again, and we will post a draft IEEE document for
review. Andy: I will ensure that all of the
raw donated documents are on the download section as
well. Matan: We had a chapter on
encapsulation in the first LRM. This new one will be the Cadence document with
name space constructs? Joe: We will have an encapsulation
chapter and refer to the name space annex. Andy: These too will be posted on
the downloads section. Joe: The name space document is an 8
page PDF, encapsulation is 3 pages. The only thing new is the scope space
operator in encapsulation. Everything else will be new clauses or annexes except
that ports will be updated with method ports. Joe: Matan, stay on the phone after
the conference with Andy to discuss partitioning of the messages document. I
will feed back to Matan on sequences. 5.
Patent policy
Andy read out the PatCom
clarifications on patent infringements as follows: “Essential patents are those
patents, including patent applications, whose infringement is unavoidable in a
compliant implementation of either mandatory or optional portions of a standard
and where there is no other reasonable technical implementation available.
The oversight of the IEEE process is only concerned with essential
patents." The chair has issued a call for essential patents, in
compliance with current IEEE/SA PatCom guidelines. The WG
members are advised to review the call for essential patents and the patent
related slide presentation posted
on the web site. 6.
Next meeting
We are bound by the 30 days notice requirement. Andy
tentatively suggested Monday February 12th at 09:00 PST/17:00 GMT.
The date may change according to circumstances. The review process will
proceed through email. 7.
Adjourn
Yaron moved to approve adjourning
the meeting, Darren seconded. |
| IEEE/SA home IEEE Standards Association |
DASC Home Design Automation Standards Committee |
VLSG Home Verification Language Study Group |
The
1647 PAR Project Authorization Form |
(Updated Fri Jan 12 14:08:53 CST 2007)