Meeting 17 Minutes

Teleconference, August 30th, 2005
A quorum of 28 out of 28 voting members present.

1. Call to order

Meeting was called to order at 09:00 PST/16:00 GMT.

2. Approval of minutes from meeting 16

Serrie Chapman moves to approve the minutes.
Victor Berman seconds.
No objections/abstainers. The motion to approve the minutes was carried.

3. Vote to approve the draft standard

The review period of two weeks of draft 5 has passed. A motion to approve the draft standard is tabled for this meeting. A formal recorded vote is conducted, requiring a 75% return and a 75% approval per section 6.5 and 6.6 of this WG bylaws.

The official ballot results as recorded:

Name	Vote	Comments
Christoffer Amlo	Affirmative
Victor Berman	Affirmative
Avi Bloch	Affirmative
Serrie-Justine Chapman	Affirmative
Federico Colucci	Affirmative
Jacob Daniel	Affirmative
Sandeep Desai	Affirmative
Stylianos Diamantidis	Affirmative
Darren Galpin	Affirmative
Ann Germany	Affirmative
Pitchumani Guruswamy	Affirmative
Joseph Hupcey	Affirmative
Sylvie Hurat	Affirmative
Eran Keydar	Affirmative
Brett Lammers	Affirmative
Chris Macionski	Affirmative
Michael McNamara	Affirmative
Steve Pearlmutter	Affirmative
Andrew Piziali	Affirmative
Daniel Romaine	Affirmative
Lori Kate Smith	Affirmative
Michael Stellfox	Affirmative
Mark Strickland	Affirmative
Dave Tokic	Affirmative
David Van Campenhout	Affirmative
Matan Vax	Affirmative
David Von Bank	Affirmative
Henry Von Bank	Affirmative

The chair was in support. Chair's vote is reserved as a tie breaker only.

The motion to approve the draft standard was unanimously accepted.

4. Other Business

The IEEE-SA website was down last week. Recommend that you wait until the common registration website is back up on Thursday. The close of the ballot pool has been extended to September 7, in order to accommodate members having difficulty registering.

Joe: How does this affect the timeline?

Yaron: Shouldn't affect it. Wait for IEEE review to start on September 15th.

Victor B: Need to pull it together for the IEEE editors and the review, and we can start now.

Joe: The ballot period will start mid-September, review mid October, them comments and finish by December.

Victor B: Assuming that the editors do their work quickly It should start mid-Sept. There is a 30 day review period, at least 2 weeks to turn around any comments.

5. Patent policy

The chair has issued a call for essential patents, in compliance with current IEEE/SA PatCom guidelines. The WG members are advised to review the call for essential patents and the patent related slide presentation posted on the web site .

6. Next meeting

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The next meeting will be on Monday 10th October at 09:00 AM Pacific time, 16:00 UTC, to avoid numerous holidays in Israel.

7. Adjourn

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