IEEE-SA Liaison Report

1. IEEE-SA Liaison Report SAB Meeting November 2006 Don Wright Director of Standards, Lexmark International Member, IEEE SA Board of Governors Past Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board Chair, IEEE SASB Patent Committee

2. 2006 SASB Leadership 2006 Leadership: • Chair Steve Mills (CS) • Vice Chair Richard Hulett • NesCom Ron Petersen • RevCom Malcolm Thaden • PatCom Don Wright (CS) • ProCom Richard Hulett • AudCom Daleep Mohla • SCC Liaison Howard Wolfman 2006/7 Meeting Schedule: • December 4 – 6, 2006 Boca Raton, Florida • March 20-22, 2007 Piscataway, NJ • June 26-28, 2007 Piscataway, NJ • September 25-27, 2007 Piscataway, NJ • December 3-5, 2007 Florida Unchanged

3. 2006 SASB Membership • 2006 new members: Bill GoldbachArnie GreenspanBob Grow (CS/802)Ken HanusTom PrevostGreg RattaRobby Robson (CS/LTSC)Anne-Marie SahazizianVirginia Sulzberger (TAB Rep) • Reappointments:Mark BowmanDennis Brophy (CS/DASC)Joanna Guenin (CS/802)Mark HalpinBill HopfRich HulettDavid Law (CS/802)Steve Mills (CS)Daleep MohlaTed OlsenGlenn Parsons (CS/802)Ron PetersenMalcolm ThadenRick TownsendHoward WolfmanDon Wright (CS/MSC & IASC) Unchanged

4. 2006 SASB Summary (to date) • RevCom has recommended approval of • 21 projects as new standards • 26 revisions of standards • 42 reaffirmations of existing standards • NesCom has recommended approval of • 59 new PARs • 31 modified PARs • 27 revision PARs • 21 PAR extensions • 13 Withdrawals (plus 1 administrative withdrawal)

5. Sept 2006 SASB Summary • RevCom • An ad hoc was created to deal with an issue with the references section especially during revisions. • ANSI has approved “Stabilize Standards” and RevCom will be considering what should happened to the “suspension” of creating new stabilized IEEE standards. • NesCom • An ad hoc was established to review and provide guidance for Item 7.3 (health, safety, etc.) on PAR Form • The NesCom Conventions have been revised and will be posted to the website (http://standards.ieee.org/guides/par/nesconv.html) • The PAR form for 2007 nears completion. Adoption of another group’s standard is being adopted. • PatCom • PatCom completed its work on the new Patent Policy and recommended approval to the Standards Board. • Subsequently, the SASB approved by a 2/3 vote via letter ballot a recommendation to the BoG to adopt the new patent policy. • See http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/pp-dialog for more information. • ProCom • Addressed four proposed changes to the SASB Ops Man and two changes to the SASB Bylaws on L50-S reporting, Official version of Sponsor P&Ps, dominance, and disclosure of affiliation. • With the proposed changes to the IEEE SA Patent Policy, the current contents of SASB Ops Man 5.3.8, COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS is outdated. An ad hoc was create to address this issue. The chair will be David Law • AudCom • Approved 3 P&P unconditionally and 4 P&P conditionally. • The following committees have not submitted a P&P document for review and are on the “No Standards Activities Allowed” list: “SCC40 – The Committee on Global Earth Observation”, “Computer Society-Portable Applications”, “Computer Society-Storage Systems” • Currently revising the "Baseline" Sponsor P&P

6. Activities at the Sept SASB Mtg • SASB meeting started in the evening of Sept. 14th and continued on the 15th.(http://standards.ieee.org/board/stdsbd/906sasbagenda.html) • Allegations of dominance within 802.20 including nearly 8 hours of executive session (more later) • Normal committee reports • Reports from the ad hocs on appeals, electronic voting, PAR scope, European Patent Office • Meeting lasted until nearly 5PM

7. Activities at Sept SASB Mtg • Approved the following new CS PARs • P802.1Qat: Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks---Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks - Amendment: 9: Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) • P802.1Qau: Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks---Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks - Amendment: 10: Congestion Notification • P802.3av: Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific Requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications - Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 10Gb/s Passive Optical Networks • P802.16-2004/Cor 2: Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks - Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems - Corrigendum 2 • P802.22.2 : Information Technology -Telecommunications and information exchange between systems - Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN) - Specific requirements - Part 22.2: Recommended Practice for the Installation and Deployment of IEEE 802.22 Systems • P15289: Systems and Software Engineering — Content of systems and software life cycle process information products (Documentation) • P20000.1: ISO/IEC 20000-1:2005, Information Technology — Service Management — Part 1: Specification • P20000.2: ISO/IEC 20000-2:2005, Information Technology — Service Management — Part 2: Code of Practice • Approved the following CS Standards • P802.3aq/D4.0: IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific Requirements - Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications - Amendment: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation, Type 10GBASE-LRM • P802.3as/D3.3: IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific Requirements - Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications - Amendment: Frame Format Extensions • P802.16/Conformance04/D7: Standard for Conformance to IEEE 802.16 - Part 4: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) Pro forma for Frequencies below 11 GHz • P1175.2/D12.2: Recommended Practice for CASE Tool Interconnections - Characterization of Interconnections • Tabled approval of P1394C until the December SASB meeting

8. Actions Taken on 802.20 • All of the IEEE 802.20 officers will be replaced as part of the Working Group’s reorganization, in an effort to provide clearly neutral leadership and to eliminate perceptions of possible bias. The SASB is establishing a Search Committee co-chaired by the IEEE 802 Chair and the SASB Chair and consisting of members of the SASB and the IEEE 802 Executive Committee (EC). The Search Committee will define criteria and requirements for the candidates, solicit volunteers, evaluate candidates, and present a final proposed slate to the SASB no later than 3 November 2006, to be followed by an SASB vote on or before 12 November 2006 on the candidates forwarded by the Search Committee. The suspension of the IEEE 802.20 Working Group will continue until at least a chair is approved by the SASB. • The SASB has charged the non-conflicted members of the IEEE 802 EC to work with the new officers, once appointed, to identify and address any efforts to dominate the IEEE 802.20 Working Group, whether by affirmatively seeking to achieve a standard through domination or by deliberately blocking the development of a standard, and to submit a plan for approval to the SASB at its December 2006 meeting to ensure that dominance does not occur. Using current methods as prescribed in their procedures (including treating the votes of a dominating organization as one vote) or other remedies that may be relevant, the IEEE 802 EC shall implement a plan of action and report to the SASB within 30 days of the end of each interim and plenary IEEE 802.20 session on its continuing efforts in this area. • The plan has also clarified and tightened requirements for IEEE 802.20 participants to declare their affiliations at all meetings. • Any IEEE 802.20 Working Group ballot bodies, sponsor ballot bodies, and/or ballot resolution committees have been dissolved and will be reconstituted under the new Working Group leadership. The IEEE 802 EC Chair will determine when any balloting may begin.An SASB Oversight Committee has been established to advise the IEEE 802 EC and assist them in implementing corrective actions. The members of this committee will be announced once identified. • See SASB Sept Report.pdf attached to the agenda.

9. IEEE-SA Board of Governors • 2006 Membership • Don Heirman, President • George Arnold, President-elect • Steve Mills, SASB Chair • Don Wright, SASB Past Chair • Dan Benigni*, Treasurer • Judith Gorman*, Secretary • Chuck Adams, CAG Chair • Jean Baronas • Alex Gelman • Guido Guertler • Bruce McClung • Gerald Peterson • Mary Saunders • Carl Stevenson • Phil Wennblom Unchanged • * Non-Voting

10. IEEE-SA Board of Governors • Last “regularly scheduled” face-to-face meeting was held June 27-29, 2006 • A special “working session” was held October 5-6, 2006 to work on a number of strategic items. Topics discussed included: • SA Goals and Strategy • China Activities • Product Certification • IEEE-SA Fellows Committee • Patent Policy • New Initiatives • In addition, an official session was called to consider the actions of the SASB in the matter of 802.20. Those actions were “endorsed and adopted” by the BoG. • The next meeting is scheduled for Saturday, December 2 in Boca Raton, Florida.

11. Thanks!! If you have any questions, please send them to me at f.wright@ieee.org