IEEE P1685 Kickoff Meeting – May 11, 2006 LSI Logic, Rochester MN Victor Berman, acting Chair

2 The IEEE SA Corporate Program Program started about three years ago to support “market based” standards WG membership and ballot is by “entity”- one company one vote Dues for corporate membership is on sliding scale between 1 and 5 k USD (5 for over 1b) Entity based WG pay $3750 per year Rules for WG and ballot are basically the same as for individual except for voting and membership requirements Current status on $3750 : Cadence, Philips, Synopsys paid: ARM, ST, LSI, Mentor have agreed to pay.

3 Choose DR and DRAs DR is permanent member We need DR or DRA to vote at this meeting –Cadence - Victor –Mentor –Synopsys –LSI –ARM –ST –Freescale - Kathy –Bluespec - Nikhil

4 Standardization Process Organize Working Group –Develop and approve P&Ps –Elect officers –Develop and approve PAR – have it approved by NesCom Develop the standard –Receive and accept material from SPIRIT –Refine until WG agrees the draft is ready for ballot This will probably require putting in place sub-groups to deal with technical details including hosting of the schema Ballot draft standard –Develop ballot constituency from IEEE-SA Corporate members –Vote, respond to issues, possibly revise draft and re-ballot Submit approved to RevCom for approval IEEE does final copyedit Standard is released

5 Officers Currently Victor was appointed by sponsor as acting chair to get group organized Need: Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary (treasurer optional) –Suggest holding elections as soon as P&Ps are approved –Until then continue with appointed chair Lynn as acting secretary Leave vice-chair until election unless volunteer?

6 Budget and Fee Schedule Proposed Fee structure: Companies > $1B pay $10K > $1M pay $5K < $1M pay 1K Minimum one year budget –$40k for IEEE services –$30k for editor services –Will need further funding to host xml schema –Want further funding for free access to docs and schema

7 Voting Membership shall be granted automatically to those entities attending the first working group meeting. membership shall be granted after the entity attends two consecutive meetings of the working group. The entity (member), through its DR or DRA, is expected to attend meetings as required by these procedures Secretary records attendance for members who attend at least 50% of a meeting's duration. Includes telephone, web conference etc. Membership status is maintained through consistent participation at meetings and through working group votes A working group member who misses two consecutive meetings membership status shall be revoked. A member who has lost its voting privileges shall have its voting privileges reinstated by attendance at two consecutive meetings of the working group. All voting privileges and rights shall be restored after attending the second consecutive meeting. If, for reasons of personal hardship, an entity cannot attend two consecutive meetings (but that entity continues to vote in ballots taken between meetings), the working group will be consulted on the status of the entity.