IEEE-SA Liaison Report SAB Meeting February 2007 Don Wright Director of Standards, Lexmark International IEEE-SA Treasurer Member, IEEE SA Board of Governors Past Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors

2007 SASB 2007 Leadership: l ChairSteve Mills (CS) l Vice ChairTBD l Past ChairDon Wright (CS, ComSoc, SIT, Engr Mgmt) l NesComRon Petersen l RevComMalcolm Thaden l PatComDavid Law (CS) l ProComRichard Hulett l AudComGlenn Parsons (CS) l SCC LiaisonHoward Wolfman 2007 Meeting Schedule: l March 20-22, 2007Piscataway, NJ l June 26-28, 2007Piscataway, NJ l September 25-27, 2007Piscataway, NJ l December 3-5, 2007Florida

2007 SASB Membership l Chairman: Mills, Steve - CS, ComSoc l Past Chairman: Wright, Don - CS, ComSoc, SIT, Engr Mgmt l Reappointments: Goldbach, William - PES Greenspan, Arnie - AES Grow, Robert - CS Guenin, Joanna - CS Hanus, Ken - PES Hopf, William, III - PES Hulett, Richard - IAS Law, David - CS Parsons, Glenn - CS Petersen, Ron - SCC39/ICES Prevost, Tom - PES Ratta, Greg - ComSoc Robson, Robby - CS Sahazizian, Anne-Marie - PES Thaden, Malcolm - PES Townsend, Richard - CS Wolfman, Howard - IAS l TAB Representative: TBD l New: Gelman, Alex - ComSoc Kulick, John - PES Ramachandran, Narayanan-SCC20 DeBlasio, Dick - SCC21

2007 SASB Committees l NESCOM Ron Petersen, Chair Chuck Adams Thomas Blair Richard DeBlasio Joanna Guenin William Hopf Young Kyun Kim Ted Olsen Glenn Parsons Thomas Prevost Narayanan Ramachandran Robby Robson Jon Rosdahl Anne-Marie Sahazizian Rick Townsend Sherry Hampton, NesCom Secretary Malcolm Thaden, Chair Stephen Adam Satish Aggarwal Mark Epstein Alex Gelman Daniel Giusto Bill Goldbach Bob Grow Ken Hanus Jim Hughes John Kulick David Law Gary Robinson Geoff Thompson Dave Ringle, RevCom Secretary l REVCOM

2007 SASB Committees l PROCOM Rich Hulett, Chair Ken Hanus Hermann Koch David Law Glenn Parsons Narayanan Ramachandran Greg Ratta Malcolm Thaden Howard Wolfman Dave Ringle, ProCom Secretary David Law, Chair Chuck Adams Rich Hulett Karen Kenney (non-voting) Rick Townsend Don Wright Dave Ringle, PatCom Secretary l PATCOM Glenn Parsons, Chair Arnie Greenspan Hermann Koch Ron Petersen Gary Robinson Howard Wolfman Rona Gertz, AudCom Secretary l AUDCOM

2006 RevCom Statistics Yr Avg New Revision TOTAL Reaffirmation TOTAL

2006 NesCom Statistics

Activities at the Dec SASB Mtg l Heard reports from the oversight committee and the appointed chair l Approved 1394c, which had previous been deferred pending receipt of certain Letters of Assurance l Approved the extension of the P PAR for two years with the following conditions: l The officers of the WG shall be approved by the SASB. l Continued oversight by the 802 EC Oversight Committee and the IEEE SASB Oversight Committee. l Quarterly review of the project by the SASB, which could result in the withdrawal of the PAR. l A report from the DASC chair was heard concerning allegations of dominance. The chair was asked to update the Standards Board at future meetings.

Activities at the Dec SASB Mtg l Consider and approved changes to the SASB Bylaws and Operations Manual concerning: l Dominance l Scope and purpose consistency l P&Ps under development l Antitrust language in SASB Ops Man l Approved minor changes to clause 6 of the Ops Mans and the LOA form (both previously approved) to bring them into alignment with the Bylaws clause 6 changes made by the BoG. l See the updated SASB bylaws and ops man attached to this agenda. l The SASB was informed that the IEEE BoD approved changes to the IEEE Bylaws to fix the problems with WG electronic voting previously caused by NY state non-for-profit law.

2007 IEEE-SA Board of Governors  George Arnold, President  Don Heirman, Past President  Steve Mills, SASB Chair  Don Wright, SASB Past Chair & Treasurer  Judith Gorman*, Secretary  Chuck Adams, CAG Chair  Mary Saunders  Carl Stevenson  Phil Wennblom  Bruce McClung  Dennis Brophy  Lanny Floyd  Bilel Jamoussi  Fran O’Brien New Members * Non-voting

IEEE-SA Board of Governors l Last face-to-face meeting was held Dec. 2, 2006 l Work continued on the SA Strategy l Actions included: l Approving new Patent Policy l Approving a variety of other policy changes l Appointed the 2007 SASB Chair l Appointed the 2007 SASB Members l Approved candidates for 2007 elections l SA President l CAG l BoG Members at Large

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