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Members Present:
Bob Grow - Chair
Tom Prevost - Vice Chair
Steve Mills - Past Chair, SCC Coordinator
Judy Gorman - Secretary
Victor Berman
Dick DeBlasio
Andy Drozd
Mark Epstein
Alex Gelman
Bill Goldbach
Arnie Greenspan
Jim Hughes
Rich Hulett
Young Kyun Kim
John Kulick
David Law
Glenn Parsons
Ron Petersen
Chuck Powers
Narayanan Ramachandran
Jon Rosdahl
Malcolm Thaden
Howard Wolfman
Don Wright
Satish Aggarwal - NRC Rep.
Michael Kelley - NIST Rep.
Joe Koepfinger - Member Emeritus
Members Absent:
Ken Hanus
Anne-Marie Sahazizian
Guests Present:
Chuck Adams
Phil Barber
Karen Bartleson
Radhakrishna Canchi
Carole Carey
Clint Chaplin
Wael Diab
Jeff Garner
Dan Giusto
Siri Jodha Khalsa
Mark Klerer
Hung Ling
Paul Nikolich
Fran O'Brien
Ted Olsen
Jay Pearlman
Sam Sciacca
Mike Seavey
Scott Tamashiro
Geoff Thompson
James Tomcik
Claire Topp, legal counsel
John Walz
George Willingmyre
Joanne Wilson
Staff Present:
Bill Ash
Kim Breitfelder
Matt Ceglia
Kathryn Cush
Terry deCourcelle
Trish Gerdon
Rona Gertz
Jodi Haasz
Yvette HoSang
Karen Kenney
Michael Kipness
Juanita Lewis
Jennifer McClain
Mary Lynne Nielsen
Moira Patterson
Dave Ringle
Ana Sainvilus
Penny Stanton
Cherry Tom
Sue Vogel
Jerry Walker
Lisa Yacone
1 Call to Order
Chair Bob Grow called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Following his opening
remarks, introductions were made by those present. A roll call was taken and
it was determined that 23 SASB voting members were present. A simple majority
vote will require 12 votes.
2 Changes to the Agenda
2.1 Approval of the Agenda
Following the removal of P802.20 there was a motion by Don Wright and a second
by Jon Rosdahl to approve the agenda. Upon vote, the agenda, including the consent
agenda, was unanimously approved.
2.2 Approval of the Consent Agenda
2.2.1 NesCom Recommendations
2.2.2 RevCom Recommendations
RevCom Chair, David Law, removed P802.20 from the consent agenda. It will be
discussed under 2.3.1
2.2.3 AudCom Recommendations
2.3 Balance of the Agenda
2.3.1 P802.20
Chair Grow stated that there will be an open discussion of P802.20 following
the identification of conflicted SASB members for the purpose of voting.
Chair Grow had been predetermined to be conflicted on this matter and Tom Prevost, Vice Chair, took over.
It will require 12 votes for the vote on P802.20 by the non-conflicted members
of the SASB.
Motion:
RevCom moves to approve IEEE 802.20.
Result - 14 approve, 0 disapprove, 2 abstain
The deadline for any appeal on this issue will be 12 July.
3 Legal Update
Claire Topp reported on the amicus brief policy that was developed and approved
by the BOG in Geneva. The policy will be made publicly available at a future
date.
Claire also reported that additional comments were filed on the N-DATA/FTC issue and that all comments can be found on the web.
There has been increased attention to the C95 standards concerning radio frequency (cell phones and brain cancer). A major study will be coming out shortly sponsored by the World Health Organization. All indications are that no evidence to link cell phones and brain cancer will be found. The IEEE must be aware of press inquiries and the proper way they are handled. Ron Petersen, IEEE SASB member and advocate, has always spoken positively on behalf of the IEEE.
4 Unfinished/Old/Other Business
4.1 It was noted that the minutes of the March SASB meeting were approved on
23 April.
4.2 L50-S Update
Juanita Lewis reported that two organizations with treasuries have not submitted
an L50-S form and are non-compliant; SCC10 and the Robotics and Automation Society.
Movers - Steve Mills and Don Wright
Motion - Move to suspend the activities of SCC10 until their L50-S form is received
and accepted by staff. Following acceptance, the work of the group will be reinstated.
During this suspension, staff is directed to perform the duties of mandatory
coordination.
Result - 21 approve
Movers - Steve Mills and David Law
Motion - Move that the activities of the RAS be suspended until their L50 S
form is received and accepted by staff. Following acceptance, the work of the
group will be reinstated.
Result - 22 approve
5 Committee Reports
5.1 Standards Review Committee (RevCom)
Chair David Law provided the following information:
- Statistical information since the beginning of the year.
- The next early consideration cycle will be in October.
- The formation of 2 ad hoc committees was announced:
---- Scope of Recirculation ad hoc - to clarify what portions of a draft
are open
---- Sponsor Responsibility with regard to non-MBS Comments ad hoc -
need to resolve the conflict in language in the Operations manual.
5.2 New Standards Committee (NesCom)
Chair Tom Prevost thanked Ron Petersen for chairing the NesCom meeting in his
absence.
- Tom provided year-to-date statistics for NesCom.
- Tom reported that the 20 submissions from the IAS Society for the Color Books
were approved at this meeting. All together, there will be 60 PARs submitted
for this activity.
- The ad hoc reviewing the NesCom conventions will continue, concentrating on
Convention number 9, which is the timely response to comments.
5.3 Procedures Committee (ProCom)
Chair Rich Hulett reported on:
- The status of balloted items by the BOG and SASB.
- The copyright ad hoc did not hold any meetings, but they will resume activities
and report at the September meeting.
- ProCom was in favor of merging the approved entity study group guidelines
into a document that would also include individual-based study groups. Chuck
Powers will chair this Study Group Guidelines ad hoc.
- Due to the extensive number of proposed changes to the SASB Operations Manual,
a letter ballot of the Standards Board will be conducted.
5.4 Audit Committee (AudCom)
Glenn Parsons reported:
- 17 Sponsors will have Policy and Procedure documents more than 5 years old
by the end of 2009 and that letters will be sent to the Sponsors advising them
that they need to revise their P&P.
- AudCom is considering an administrative withdrawal process if P&Ps are
not received. The proposal is that the Sponsor's P&P are administratively withdrawn,
just like a PAR. The Sponsor would still exist, but would be in the state of
having no approved P&P. The Sponsor would essentially be blocked.
- A letter will be sent at the beginning of the calendar year advising Sponsors
that withdrawal will take place by the end of the year if a revised P&P
is not received.
- Chair Parsons reviewed the AudCom flowchart indicating the revisions to date.
- AudCom conventions have been developed and the list is being reviewed by the
committee members for their suggestions.
- Chair Parsons requested the initiation of a 30-day ballot of the Standards
Board for the SCC Type 2 P&P document that was approved by AudCom.
- The CAG will prepare a set of deltas for entity Sponsors to include in the
single baseline P&P document.
- Eventually, the SCC Type 2 P&P and the individual P&P will be merged
into one document along with the deltas from the CAG.
- A letter to all Sponsors explaining the need for their working groups to submit
P&P documents was sent on 11 June. Comments are being received through 31
July. These P&P documents will be randomly audited. The procedure documents
will be revised accordingly.
- Chris Sahr gave a tutorial on myProject to the group.
- The Council on Electronic Design Automation (C-EDA) requested their new P&P
document be reviewed. The AudCom recommendation is that their P&P document
needs further work and is considered "under review." An objection
was raised is that there is a scope overlap between an existing Sponsor and
a new Sponsor. AudCom does not resolve scope disputes and is asking for advice
from the SASB.
- AudCom and the SASB will wait for a response from TAB. In the meantime, the
C-EDA P&Ps are under review.
AI - Alex Gelman and Ted Olsen will approach TAB on this issue.
5.5 Patent Committee (PatCom)
Don Wright reported that:
- Comments to the new slide set were reviewed.
- 2 FAQ changes were agreed to regarding study groups.
- The 802.3 Chair received guidance on LOAs for 802.1AX.
- Claire Topp provided an update on N-Data and Rambus.
6 Standards Coordinating Committee Reports
There was a recommendation by Steve Mills and a second by Don Wright to accept
the SCC reports for:
SCC20 - Test & Diagnosis for Electronic Systems
SCC27 - Time and Frequency
SCC39 - ICES
Result - 20 approve, 1 abstain
It was reported that SCC36 is being investigated to determine if it should
be disbanded.
AI - In the absence of a chair for SCC10, staff will provide a report
on SCC10 for the September meeting.
There was unanimous consent to approve the two new SCC Chair appointments as
follows:
SCC41 - Joanna Guenin
SCC14 - Jim Frysinger
7 Calendar Review
7.1 2009 meeting locations
17-19 March - Piscataway
15-17 June - Japan
9-11 September - Piscataway
7-9 December - Philadelphia, Jersey City, Piscataway, California
Motion for the June location:
Movers - Don Wright and Tom Prevost
Move that the SASB requests the BOG to meet 11-12 June 2009 in Japan, and if
such movement happens, the SASB meeting will take place on 15-17 June, also
in Japan.
Result - 18 approve, 3 abstain
Motion for the September location:
Movers - David Law and Jon Rosdahl
Motion - Move to meet 9-11 September in Piscataway.
Result - Unanimously approved.
Motion for the December location:
Tom Prevost and David Law
Move that the 7-9 December 2009 SASB meeting be held in the New Jersey metropolitan
area, and that the BOG and CAG are invited to co-locate.
Result - 19 approve, 1 abstain
8 Informational Reports
8.1 IEEE BOD and IEEE-SA BOG Update
Bob Grow reported on recent activities at the Business Development ad hoc meeting
in Geneva. Bob stated that there is a major initiative for the conformity assessment
activity with many candidates to choose from.
AI - Contact Jerry Walker or Edward Rashba with any further conformity
assessment suggestions.
Bob reported that the SA individual membership fee will increase from $38.00 to $43.00 due to the CPI and an increased cost in processing memberships.
The corporate membership fee will be increased by 10%.
8.2 Chairman's Report
Bob Grow reported the following:
- The SASB held an appeal hearing in March on the SISO undue influence allegation.
That appeal was heard, and subsequent to that decision, a request for re-hearing
was received. This appeal was denied.
- An inquiry was received from the LMSC chair regarding the confirmation of
officers.
- Chair actions since March were the confirmation of the two new SCC appointments.
- Dick DeBlasio will represent the SASB on the NIST Smart Grid activities.
8.3 Secretary's Report
Judy Gorman reported on the effort to align staff goals, the budget, and the
strategic plan with each other in terms of the business model (bringing in the
full life cycle of standards into our business), nurturing strategic technologies,
process efficiency, education, and global participation and perception.
Judy stated that the Standards Department and the ISTO will be moving to 501 Hoes Lane in September due to a shortage of space.
9 Ad-hoc Reports
9.1 myProject Update
David Law reported that the myProject ticketing (prioritizing) system is complete.
It will be limited to SA Board members. RevCom members have access now, and
it will soon be opened to Standards Board members.
9.2 PARs for withdrawn standards (effect of LoAs) - right now there is no progress
to report.
This will be an item on the September agenda.
9.3 Appeals ad hoc - The BOG needs to revise its procedures for the receipt
of an appeal that the SASB denies. This will go to ProCom for its action.
AI - Rich Hulett and Malcolm Thaden will develop language to send to the
BOG for this activity.
10 Liaison Reports
10.1 IEEE-ISTO Update
Chuck Adams reported that both the BOG and the ISTO Boards approved the proposal
for the joint proposal on the conformity assessment activity. The proposal will
now go to the Executive Committee of the IEEE.
The ISTO line of credit is continually being paid down. The BOG will keep a line of credit open for the ISTO for the next few years.
10.2 NIST Report
Michael Kelley - No report was provided.
10.3 DOE Report
Dick DeBlasio reported that he has received input on the Smart Grid activity.
Dick is trying to get points of contact throughout the IEEE that want to be
involved in this activity. Dick will then form an informal ad hoc. At their
meeting next week, the group will try to form a definition of what a Smart Grid
is. Dick is the External Representative for this activity.
10.4 GOLD Report
Scott Tamashiro provided an update on recent GOLD activities.
It was stated that we need to be more proactive regarding young academics and
teach them how to get involved. Scott was encouraged to contact the Standards
in Education Committee.
10.5 NRC Report
Satish Aggarwal reported that PES is holding their technical meeting in July.
Several new nuclear power plants are expected to be built in the next few years.
11 New Business/Information Items
No new business came before the SASB.
12 Next Meeting
The next meeting of the IEEE-SA Standards Board will be on 26 September in Seoul,
South Korea.
12.1 Review of Resolutions/Motions
There was a motion by Steve Mills and a second by Jon Rosdahl to publish
the two L50-S motions as resolutions of the SASB, which was unanimously approved.
13 Adjournment
1:50 p.m.
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