1. SAB Vitality Committee Report Annette Reilly June 3, 2014

2. Vitality Committee Purpose and Approach “Meet with sponsors to transmit best practices among them and to recommend reorganization of sponsors with diminishing workload” Approach: –Identify existing and potential new measures of vitality for sponsors –Identify indications of moribund or dysfunctional sponsors –Collect performance data for identified vitality indicators –Recommend changes in sponsor status if indicated Support strategic discussions to contribute to the vitality of SAB as a whole through identifying new projects or sponsor committees (working with Special Projects) Build the IEEE-CS brand as the SDO of choice. 2Vitality May 2014

3. Vitality Indicators Productivity: Number of active revision and new projects, projects started, abandoned, completed before PAR expiration Engagement: Number of active working groups, number of working group and SC members, number of study groups, liaisons to other standards development organizations (SDO) and IEEE-CS TCs, extent of international participation, longevity of leadership, involvement of new leaders/members, involvement of major industry stakeholders and users Compliance: Operating within approved P&P Sustainment: Revision or stabilization of a portfolio of approved standards; use of strategic planning to identify new projects; relevance of standards to current technology –Not a major concern in 2014, but 62 of 286 projects will need revision or archiving in 2018 3Vitality Committee Feb 14

4. Vitality observations Sponsor committees range from very large portfolios to start-ups with no completed projects –Both can be vital sponsors –Newer sponsors TT, CCSC, IA have new active projects Expiring PARs: 2/3 of sponsor committees have projects with a PAR expiring in 2014 that are not yet in ballot (13 of 126 active projects) –Possible Causes: WG chair change, difficulty reaching consensus, lack of urgency from WG and sponsor, lack of active WG members, need for standard has waned Concerns: Sponsors with no new work –New sponsor FIFA –Mature portfolio: SI (one in revision), PA (expired procedures) 4Vitality May 2014

5. Sponsor vitality data 5SAB Vitality, May 2014 Sponsor CommitteePublished Projects = PAR Complete Revision in work New in work Incomplete and PAR expires 12/31/2014 WG with active projects P&P tillComments Cloud Computing (CCSC) 002022016 Design Automation (DA) 2363182016P1735-preballot Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIFA) 001002017 PAR P2409 deferred in March Information Assurance IA 911122017P1667 pre-ballot LAN/MAN (IEEE 802, LM) 92477472017 2 in RevCom, P802.11ah, P80211ai Learning Technology (LT) 1222232018 P1484.11.1, P1484.13.6 Microprocessor (MSC) 3543362016 P1788, P1817; P1823 in comments res Portable Applications (PA) 2300002013 no new work, P&P expired Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SI) 1010112015 P1278.2, no new work Software & Systems Engineering (S2ESC) 607132112018P1062, P1828 Standards Activity Board (SAB): 1680, 1857, 3333 9111252018 1680.4, 1680.5 PAR expiring; Storage Systems 211022018 Test Technology 2016372018 P1149.1.1, P1804; 1 in comments res. Voting Systems 105032018 TOTALS 29671551957