Standards Focus


	January 2007

February CAG Meeting in Paris
The next Corporate Advisory Group meeting will be held on 6 and 7 February in Paris. It will be hosted by France Telecom at their research and development facilities. All IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group meetings are open to attend.

For further information on the agenda or on attending, please contact Rona Gertz.

IPR Seminar in China
The IEEE-SA will hold two half-day seminars in China on intellectual property rights (IPR): one in Shenzhen on 5 March and the other in Beijing on 7 March. The seminars will share information with Chinese standards developers on IEEE-SA's IPR policies and update them on the IEEE-SA's patent rule changes that take effect on 30 April. It also will provide an introduction to the IEEE-SA and its activities in China. Both seminars are open to interested parties from Chinese government, industry and other sectors. If you are interested in attending or would like to have an invitation to the seminar extended to a colleague, please contact Jodi Haasz.

Emerging Economies Workshop to be held in Tunisia
The IEEE Corporate Standards Program will offer a one-day workshop, "Global Standards and Emerging Economies," in Tunis, Tunisia, on 10 May. It will be co-chaired by two sectors of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and co-hosted by the Tunisian Ministry of Telecommunications.

The workshop will also include information on IEEE and ITU and look at standards of international interest, such as those for local and metropolitan area networks (IEEE 802.11™ and IEEE 802.16™) and broadband over power lines (IEEE P1901). Attendees can also participate in the all-day CAG meeting to be held the day after the workshop.

For information on this event, contact the IEEE-SA Corporate Standards Program office by email or +1 732-562-5342

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Changes to the Corporate Advisory Group

The 11-person Corporate Advisory Group (CAG), which guides the IEEE Corporate Standards Program, is a dynamic body containing elected and appointed members who serve defined terms in order to introduce fresh ideas and concepts into the program.

The last few months saw two individuals join the group and several existing members gain re-election and reappointment. In addition, Thomas Lee, a representative from China, joined the CAG for a special, one-year tenure.

Those on the CAG have a high level of achievement in the standards world. They bring the program diverse perspectives that extend across many industries and national and regional interests. Here's a look at those who just joined the group and those who have had their tenure on the CAG extended (from top left)

Jim Hughes is a new CAG member appointed by the IEEE-SA Standards Board Chair and serves on the IEEE-SA Standards Board's Review Committee. He is a Senior Standards Strategist at Microsoft and is its principal representative to the IEEE-SA. He has 30 years of standards management experience at Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, UniSoft, Amdahl and IBM, in addition to Microsoft.
James W. Wendorf, a new CAG member, was appointed by the IEEE-SA President. He is Vice President, Technology & Standards at Philips Electronics and oversees standards activities in such areas as electronic content distribution systems and digital home networking.
Dennis Brophy was reelected by the corporate members of the IEEE-SA. He is Director, Strategic Business Development at Mentor Graphics Corporation. He is also a member of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors and is the secretary of the IEEE P1800™ and IEEE P1666™ working groups.
Bilel Jamoussi was also reelected to the CAG by the corporate members of the IEEE-SA. He is also a member of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors. He is Director, Corporate Strategic Standards at Nortel, where he provides technology direction and leadership for the company's involvement in more than 85 standard development organizations.
Steve M. Mills, Vice-Chair of the CAG, was appointed by the IEEE-SA President. He is Senior Technical Architect in Hewlett-Packard's Industry Standards Program Office and serves as the chair of the IEEE-SA Standards Board.
James Williamson was reappointed by the CAG chair. He is Vice President, Technology Standards Office at Sony Electronics responsible for the standards activities of its U.S. electronics business. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and is a past member of the IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors.

An Addition From China

As part of its commitment to global standards, the CAG has been fostering ties to the standards community in China. This effort has borne fruit in many ways. One significant result is that Thomas Lee (Li Li) of Huawei Technologies Company in Shenzhen, China, joined the CAG for a one-year membership on January 1. He brings the CAG and the corporate program invaluable insight into the needs and requirements of the Chinese standards environment.

Thomas is Huawei's Vice General Manager, Standard Department, Corporate Strategy & Marketing. In this position, he is responsible for corporate standard strategies, provides expertise in wireless, security and telemanagement standardization, and is a core member of his company's Corporate Strategy Circle.

Thanks To Those Who Have Served

The two new CAG members replaced Peter Linnert of the Corporate Technology, Standardization and Regulation Group at Siemens AG, and George Arnold, who was Vice President of Standards and Intellectual Property (now retired) at Lucent Technologies. Both Peter and George deserve a warm round of thanks for their efforts in shepherding the Corporate Standards Program during its formative years and for helping create a sound and viable organization.

A Banner Year For Corporate Standards

Momentum built for corporate standards projects during 2006 as organizations discovered the benefits of working in company-based working groups within the IEEE standards process. Five new corporate standards started last year, and updates to two existing ones began.

These efforts spanned a wide range of technologies from rechargeable batteries for mobile computers and cell phones to long wavelength wireless networking, hardware design and verification, and enterprise decision making.

Two of these projects involved IEEE Livium™ rechargeable battery standards. One will revise the IEEE P1625™ mobile computer battery standard, and the other will create IEEE P1825™ for batteries in digital cameras and camcorders. Standards in the Livium family offer guidelines for the design, validation and manufacture of battery cells and packs, in both stand-alone and in system configurations.

The other new projects were:

IEEE P1685™, "Draft Standard for IP-XACT, Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-Using IP within Tool-Flows." The electronics industry has been using an increasing number of IP blocks as designs grow larger and more complex. This standard will provide a uniform description of these blocks so they are easier to use and less prone to error.
IEEE P1694™, "Standard for Enterprise Strategic Decision Management." This standard will give enterprises common methods and work products to use in managing strategic decisions. It will define a structure for decision planning, analysis and execution, as well as for collaboration across an enterprise and among enterprises.
IEEE P1800™, "Standard for SystemVerilog: Unified Hardware Design, Specification and Verification Language." This revision project will merge the SystemVerilog™ and Verilog™ standards into a single document to benefit the electronic design automation, semiconductor, and system design communities.
IEEE P1902.1™, "Standard for Long Wavelength Wireless Network Protocol," will improve upon the RuBee™ visibility network protocol, which provides for networks involving thousands of radio tags within a 10-to-50-foot area in retail, medical, agricultural, and other environments.
IEEE P1900.4™, "Architectural Building Blocks Enabling Network-Device Distributed Decision Making for Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks." Wireless network devices can increasingly choose among various air interfaces, such as those used by second and third generation cellular radios. This standard will help such devices make optimal use of available radio resources.

For more information on any of the above standards development activities contact corp-stds@ieee.org or +1-732-562-5342.

IEEE-SA International Standards Strategy Underway

The IEEE Standards Association is a trusted source of international standards. To ensure it continues to fulfill this role, the IEEE-SA Board of Governors approved an international strategy to help IEEE-SA respond to the evolving political and commercial climate worldwide. This strategy was drafted by members of the IEEE-SA BOG and the CAG.

The strategy seeks to expand IEEE-SA's presence as a global standards development organization in many ways. Overall, it explores how IEEE-SA can produce a greater range of relevant standards that satisfy the needs of consumers, industry and governments the world over.

This broad goal involves many areas, including deepening and extending IEEE-SA's existing ties to ISO, IEC, ITU, national standards bodies, governments, and industry groups having a global reach. The IEEE-SA will encourage those in China, India, Brazil and other emerging markets to develop standards through the IEEE. And ways to foster the broad adoption of IEEE standards and make them more accessible will be pursued.

The new strategy will help IEEE-SA leverage its strengths in the standards arena. These strengths include the ability to offer both individual and corporate standards environments, a standards process that adheres to WTO principles, and a track record of producing high-quality technical standards that have had a strong global impact, both economically and socially.


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