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Members Present:
Bob Grow - Chair
Steve Mills - Past Chair, SCC Coordinator
Judy Gorman - Secretary
Victor Berman
Dick DeBlasio
Andy Drozd
Mark Epstein
Alex Gelman
Bill Goldbach
Arnie Greenspan
Ken Hanus
Jim Hughes
Rich Hulett
Young Kyun Kim
John Kulick
David Law
Glenn Parsons
Ron Petersen
Chuck Powers
Tom Prevost
Narayanan Ramachandran
Jon Rosdahl
Malcolm Thaden
Howard Wolfman
Don Wright
Satish Aggarwal - NRC Rep.
Michael Kelley - NIST Rep.
Joe Koepfinger - Member Emeritus
Members Absent:
Anne-Marie Sahazizian
Guests Present:
Chuck Adams
Matt Ball
Phillip Barber
Karen Bartleson
Clyde Camp
Jim Carlo
Clint Chaplin
Chris Fitzgerald
Geoffrey Garner
Daniel Giusto
Hung Ling
Bob Pritchard
Sam Sciacca
Michael Seavey
Elliot Sloane
Geoff Thompson
Claire Topp, Legal Counsel
Rick Townsend
John Walz
Joanne Wilson
Li Yan
Staff Present:
Kathryn Cush
Tricia Gerdon
Rona Gertz
Jodi Haasz
Yvette HoSang
Karen Kenney
Soo Kim
Michael Kipness
Moira Patterson
Edward Rashba
Dave Ringle
Linda Sibilia
Jennie Steinhagen
Susan Tatiner
Cherry Tom
Sue Vogel
Lisa Yacone
1 Call to Order
Chair Bob Grow called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. Following
his opening remarks, introductions were made by those present. A roll call was
taken, and it was determined that 24 voting members were present. A vote to
approve or disapprove a motion will require 13 votes.
2 Changes to the Agenda
2.1 Approval of Agenda
2.2 Consent Agenda
2.2.1 NesCom Recommendations
2.2.2 RevCom Recommendations
2.2.3 AudCom Recommendations
2.2.4 Approval of new officers for SCC20
2.2.5 Approval of 21 invited experts to ballot on P1635
2.2.6 Reconfirmation of Category D Liaisons
2.2.7 Approval of invited experts for P1680 and P1680.1
Following a review of the agenda, there was a motion by Arnie Greenspan and
a second by Rich Hulett to approve the agenda. Upon vote, the agenda, including
the consent agenda, was unanimously approved.
3 Election of the Vice Chair
Chair Bob Grow made a final call for nominations for the position of IEEE SA
Standards Board Vice-Chair. Steve Mills nominated Tom Prevost, who accepted
the nomination along with Arnie Greenspan, Glenn Parsons, and Ron Petersen.
Claire Topp, legal counsel, and Chuck Adams, IEEE-SA President Elect, served
as the Tellers for this election. A letter ballot was conducted of the 24 voting
members present, and the vote determined that Tom Prevost was elected Vice Chair.
4 Legal Update
Claire Topp reported that an appeal of the findings of the SISO-ADM-008-2007
inquiry into undue influence/dominance of the Distributed Interactive Simulation
Product Development Group Final Report dated 31 August 2007 was heard on Monday,
24 March. The appeal panel was made up of Glenn Parsons-Chair, Malcolm Thaden,
and John Kulick.
Claire also reported that information was provided to the FTC in regards to the proposed Consent Order RE: N-Data..
5 Unfinished/Old/Other Business
5.1 It was noted that the minutes of the 6 December 2007 SASB meeting were approved
on 31 December 2007.
5.2 L50-S Update
Bob Grow reminded the group that all standards development groups provide yearly
financial reports to the Institute.
Juanita Lewis then provided a detailed report citing the SASB Operations Manual requirement to obtain financial information. Juanita stated that 42 Sponsors out of 91 have already submitted the required information. A final reminder will be emailed to the non-compliant Sponsors by 1 April. Any suggestions for improvement to this process should be sent to Juanita.
AI - Juanita Lewis will assure the next round of reminders will go directly to all groups that have previously filed reports but are delinquent this year.
5.3 The role of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) in the healthcare/standardization
arena.
Elliot Sloane provided a report on IEEE and Medical Device Standards. Mr. Sloane
described what is considered to be a "medical device". He also described
the "Rosetta" concept, which will enable exchange of health record
information between dissimilar databases. Mr. Sloane stated the importance for
IEEE to participate in this area in order to contribute to healthcare in the
21st century. Medical information must be automated to contain medical costs.
Mr. Sloane is seeking assistance from the appropriate 802 groups to contribute
to this effort. A suggestion was made to give a tutorial at an upcoming 802
plenary, which was supported by 802 representatives Geoff Thompson and David
Law.
AI - Judy Gorman, Geoff Thompson, and Sue Vogel to investigate an 11073
opportunity for the RAC.
AI - Sue Vogel and Cherry Tom to investigate the next steps within the SA to
reach the right people in the Continua alliance.org.
6 Committee Reports
6.1 Standards Review Committee (RevCom)
Chair David Law stated that 25 submittals were approved and 6 were conditionally
approved at this RevCom meeting. One Early Consideration cycle took place in
January, where 9 projects were approved. Chair Law also presented RevCom statistics
for the past several years.
There was a motion by the Committee to forward the Operations Manual clause 9.4 ad hoc proposal for further processing to ProCom.
There was a motion by the Committee to forward to ProCom the issue of clarifying that the rules that are in place at the time of an action should apply for that action.
Revisions were made to the RevCom submittal form to align with myBallot.
Based upon the conditions for approval being met, there was a motion by
David Law and a second by Steve Mills to move to approve the following submittals.
P686 (AES/RS)
260.4-1996 (R2002) (SCC14)
1523-2002 (DEI)
1541-2002 (SCC14)
Upon vote, these projects were unanimously approved.
6.2 New Standards Committee (NesCom)
Chair Tom Prevost provided statistics for NesCom and a graph showing new work.
The group held discussions on the following topics:
The IAS Color Books numbering scheme
A revised PAR Form to be ready in April
Recommendations for myProject
The Continuous Processing schedule for April and October
An ad hoc was formed to review section 9 of the NesCom Conventions regarding "timely response". The group was reminded that voltage references in standards titles need to be made clear. PARs for projects for withdrawn standards should be submitted as new projects, not projects for revisions; because once a project is withdrawn, any LoAs are no longer in force.
Based upon the conditions for approval being met, there was a motion by
Tom Prevost and a second by Chuck Powers to move to approve the following projects.
Upon vote, these projects were unanimously approved.
P1783 (DEI/SC)
P1900.5 (SCC41)
There was a motion by Tom Prevost and a second by John Kulick to move to
accept the NesCom recommendation to approve the following PARs (revision of
a withdrawn standard)
P378 (IM/TC4)
PC37.98 (PE/PSR)
Upon vote, this motion was unanimously approved.
NesCom recommends that in the future this type of PAR should be considered as
a PAR for a new project.
Issues to consider are outstanding LoAs and the re-use of the number.
An ad hoc committee was formed with Tom Prevost-Chair, Rich Hulett, Ron Petersen, Jim Hughes, and David Law to make it clear to standards users and participants what the applicability of LoAs and the reuse of numbers entails.
6.3 Procedures Committee (ProCom)
Rich Hulett reviewed the committee members for 2008.
Rich then asked the SASB to approve the following motions:
Mover - Rich Hulett
Motion - Move to accept the proposed P&P text recognizing that the IEEE-SA
database is the official repository for participant data.
Result - 20 approve
Mover - Rich Hulett
Motion - Move that the SASB accept the proposed P&P text for the reaffirmation
process.
There was a second motion by Don Wright with a second by Bill Goldbach to
have this motion considered by letter ballot. Upon vote, this motion was approved
with 17 approve, and 4 abstain.
An electronic ballot will take place.
Rich Hulett stated that the Copyright policy ad hoc was re-chartered with David Law as Chair.
The ad hoc committee on External Representatives provided a report to ProCom. The ad hoc recommends there be an oversight committee, but will continue work including determining where this committee should reside, and which owning Board decides where the External Representative will come from.
Chair Hulett stated that in the hierarchy of documents it was noted that some
of the documents are not visible to everyone. To help solve this problem, the
following motion was approved:
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Mover - Rich Hulett
Motion - Move that a listing of resolutions of each meeting of the SASB shall
be publicly distributed by the Secretary within 4 weeks following the meeting.
Result - 22 approve, 1 abstain
6.4 Audit Committee (AudCom)
Chair Glenn Parsons reviewed the committee members for 2008.
There are currently 89 Sponsors - 80 with accepted P&P, and 9 without P&P.
AI - Rona to send a letter to delinquent Sponsors reminding them they
need accepted P&P to do any standards work.
AI - Rona will block the Sponsors indicated on Glenn's slides.
Glenn reviewed the AudCom flowchart, indicating that it reflects new submissions.
AI - A revised flowchart will be provided at the next meeting.
Glenn reviewed the AudCom Conventions that will be implemented in the future.
The baseline SCC Type 2 model P&P will be balloted by AudCom and will then
go the SASB for ballot.
The next step will be to merge the SCC Type 2 P&P and the Sponsor P&P
into one document.
AudCom is also working on baseline P&P for working groups.
AI - Glenn Parsons, Tom Prevost, and David Law will work with NesCom and RevCom to see how blocks are implemented. Do we need other manual procedures?
6.5 Patent Committee (PatCom)
Chair Don Wright reviewed the members of the 2008 committee.
Don stated that:
- 28 LoA Forms were received and posted.
- All 4th quarter PatCom items were approved by the SASB and BOG
- PatCom approved a new slide set that may be used immediately and will be mandatory
1 June
---- Patent-related links were provided
---- Wording was provided for the call for potentially essential patents
---- Guidelines for working group meetings was revised
- A new FAQ question and answer was added
- PatCom received an update on the FTC N-Data decision
7 Standards Coordinating Committee Reports
There was a motion by Steve Mills and a second by Howard Wolfman to accept
the following SCC reports.
SCC4 - Electrical Insulation (Paulette Payne)
SCC18 - NFPA - Daleep Mohla
SCC41 - DYSPAN (Joanna Guenin)
Upon vote, these reports were unanimously accepted.
It was noted that SCC22 - Power Quality (Dan Sabin) was not submitted.
Standards Coordinator Mills stated that if anyone is interested in chairing SCC14 to please contact Steve or Bob Grow.
Steve Mills reported that Bob Grow, Sue Vogel, Ben Johnson, and himself met with representatives of SCC18 to discuss the need for the revision of the SCC18 procedures. These procedures were last reviewed in 1998.
It was also reported that SCC36 - Utility Communications is considering disbandment.
John Kulick will work with Steve Mills in the SCC coordination role.
8 Calendar Review
8.1 Review of 2008 meeting dates
Rona Gertz reviewed the dates and locations for the remainder of the 2008 meetings.
8.2 Approval of 2009 meeting dates/locations
Following discussion, the meeting dates for 2009 and the March location were
approved as follows:
17-19 March - Piscataway, NJ
16-18 June - TBD
9-11 September - TBD
7-9 December - TBD
Mover - Don Wright
Second - Bill Goldbach
Motion - Staff will try to coordinate the June SASB and BOG meetings to coincide
with each other in a non-USA location.
Result - Unanimously approved
9 Informational Reports
9.1 IEEE-SA BOD and BOG Update
George Arnold provided a written report which was unanimously accepted by the
Standards Board.
9.2 Chairman's Report
Chair Bob Grow reported on the 2008 subcommittees, assignments for the SASB
committees, and the status of several open items.
9.3 Secretary's Report
- Managing Director Judy Gorman reported on IEEE activities that impact everyone
including:
- BMS
- Strategic Planning including strategic program assessments and their linkup
with the budget cycle
- Membership modeling
- Public visibility
- Global outreach - continuing in China and India
Judy also reviewed the SA's five focus areas, the 3-5 year goals, and the key
themes from the past 4 years.
10 Ad-hoc Reports
10.1 SCC18/NFPA
SueVogel reviewed the relationship between the organizations, the standards
involved, and the potential conflict in scope that was identified in 2007. Sue
reported that Ben Johnson was appointed to try and bring the parties together
to resolve the issues. On 5 October 2007, a meeting was held in Piscataway,
and the result was that the participants drafted a letter to Jim Shannon, President
of the NFPA. Further updates will be provided as needed.
10.2 GOLD Update
It was suggested that since we do not have a functioning ad hoc, with three
of the four members unavailable, the ad hoc should be dissolved. Following discussion,
and upon vote, the ad hoc was unanimously dissolved.
Malcolm Thaden stated that the GOLD outreach should be at the Society level;
not the Standards Board level.
AI - Rona to send Scott's report to the BOG.
10.3 Input into the IT System
David Law reported on the process for recording and prioritizing issues. This
system will be available within two weeks.
10.4 802.20 update
Arnie Greenspan reported that Mark Klerer was elected the new 802.20 WG Chair
and Radhakrishna Canchi is the Vice Chair. Arnie then reported that at the recent
802 meeting, there were several controversies which were resolved, and that
the 802.20 ballot was successful. Arnie received a round of applause for his
efforts as outgoing 802.20 Chair.
11 Liaison Reports
11.1 IEEE-ISTO Update
Chuck Adams reported that all the SA governance Boards have a liaison relationship
with the IEEE-ISTO.
The SA and ISTO are actively involved in how we may support the life cycle activities
related to the development of standards.
11.2 NIST Report
Michael Kelley reported that NIST has been given the responsibility of standards
relating to Smart Grid.
11.3 DOE Report
Dick DeBlasio reported on the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 which
outlines a policy for the
modernization of the electricity grid. NIST is the facilitator for this effort,
and the Department of Energy wants to develop a framework for this activity.
It was suggested that other areas of the IEEE should be involved in this activity;
especially TAB.
Mover - Steve Mills
Second - Victor Berman
Motion - Move that SCC21 should explore this activity and report back to the
Standards Board. (Dick DeBlasio is the Chair)
Result - unanimously approved
11.4 GOLD Report
This report is attached to the minutes.
11.5 NRC report
Satish Aggarwal stressed the need to revise the outdated IEEE nuclear power
standards, and the need for new standards to be written for nuclear power and
cyber security. Satish stated that the PES Summer meeting is on nuclear power,
and that at least 1,500 attendees are expected.
12 New Business/Information Items
There were no new items introduced.
13 Next Meeting
The next meeting of the IEEE-SA Standards Board will be on 12 June 2008 at the
IEEE Operations Center, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
14 Adjournment
There being no further business, the meeting was unanimously adjourned at 3:15
p.m.
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