Meeting 44 Minutes

Teleconference, August 4, 2008

A quorum of six out of eight voting members present. Three non-voting members are also present. Attendance and voter status indicated on the roster web page.

Monday, August 4, 2008, 1600 UTC; 9 am Pacific Daylight Time

Attendees: Darren Galpin, Serrie Chapman, Andrew Piziali, Joe Hupcey, Yaron Kashai, Joe Daniels, Mark Strickland, Tucker Brown, Stylianos Diamantidis

1. Call to Order

• Call to order on August 4, 2008 at 9:02 am PDT (17:02 UTC)

• Andrew reminded members to mail a message to rollcall@ieee1647.org and the database will record their presence for future voting purposes.

2. Approval of June 2 Meeting 43 Minutes

• Darren made a motion to approve the meeting 43 minutes.

• Joe H. seconded the motion.

• Motion approved.

3. Status Update

Andrew: Onto the meat of the meeting. First of all I am pleased to announce that as of today you can download for purchase IEEE 1647-2008. Our work is now a published standard and available to those members and non-members. We're several months ahead of publication schedule. So, that's due to a lot of work by all of you, and Joe Daniels for helping me to navigate the publication process of the IEEE. A PDF copy will be provided to each the WG members who contributed to the standard over the last couple of years so look out for that in the near future. Any Questions on publication? Theres a lot of stories that we could talk about over a beer :o)

Joe H: that's good news -

Andrew : Yeah, I'm pretty excited! It's good news, its good that its out there and we're ahead of schedule. So, the next item for the status update is the Project Authorization Request or PAR for continuing our work. As Yaron pointed out at the last meeting our current PAR is in force for the next couple of years, but it's conventional to take the opportunity following conversation of the most recent work of the WG to update the PAR and run it through the DASC, then submit to to NesCom for approval. I updated the current PAR for work on a 2010 standard as that's the candidate date at this point and that's currently being reviewed by the DASC chair, Victor Berman and a couple of other folks. I believe that the body of the DASC, that is the membership of that body, will need to approve that PAR before its submitted to NesCom. So, I'll try to get that on the schedule for the next DASC meeting, which I believe is in a couple of weeks in August. The schedule, moving forward, is trying to get that PAR submitted. I'm not sure, at this point, when the next meeting of NesCom is. I believe it's in late August. In the fall (autumn) another month or so in the September time frame I'd like to issue a call for WG elections and give the membership an opportunity to elect new officers. A call-for-donations for the work that we'll be contributing to in the next year and a half will be issued also in the September time frame. I currently have as potential language additions the following items that have been added as extensions to the language:

• Named constraints

• Real datatypes

• Type narrowing

Also, although it's not yet implemented but has been floating around for a couple of years now is, temporal coverage. Are there any other potential language additions that anybody is aware of, things that have been implemented either in Specman or any other e implementation or are commonly being requested by users of the e language?

Darren : I believe I also submitted define-as-computed macros.

Andrew : You're right. I neglected to include that. I think I have that down here in front of me. Thank you Darren.

So, that is the current status update. Are there any comments questions on the status?

4. Editor

Andrew: Our editor is currently on – let's just ask him if he has anything to add.. Joe?

Joe D: I guess it might be beneficial to review the issue tracking system again. Let's see there's “defined as computed,” there's a recent one that Mark submitted (some print functionality) and of course some outstanding issues which are yet to be resolved.

Andrew: Right. Okay.

Joe D: I figure you guys will call me later this year when I have something to look at?

Andrew: Okay. Thanks Joe.

5. Other Business

Andrew: Any other business that anyone present would like to go through today?

Andrew: Please remember to mail rollcall@ieee1647.org to record attendance.

6. Call For Essential Patents

The IEEE-SA updated the patent policy effective April 2008. The details are available in updated slide set at: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf (See "Patent related" from the IEEE 1647 home page, "Slides about IEEE Patent Policy"). If you believe that any patent claims are essential patent claims, please inform the working group. Review the posted slides for more information.

7. Next Meeting

Andrew: Proposing the next meeting for October 13, 9a m PDT. I believe it's the second Monday of the month, which was what we had been meeting previous to this one.

Joe H: The week before or after is better because there is a holiday in Israel starting the night of the October 13.

Andrew: The week before is the 6th?

Joe H: Yep, that will work better for me

Andrew: Okay. The next meeting is October 6 at 9 am PDT

8. Adjourn

Darren made a motion to adjourn the meeting.

Tucker seconded the motion.

Motion approved.

Meeting adjourned at 9:20 am PDT.