Meeting 22 Minutes

Teleconference, June 5th, 2006
A quorum of 14 out of 17 voting members present. Attendance indicated on the roster web page.

1. Call to order

Meeting was called to order at 09:00 PST/17:00 GMT.

2. Approval of minutes from meeting 21

Victor Berman moves to approve the minutes as posted.
Andy Piziali seconds.
No objections/abstainers. The motion to approve the minutes was carried.

3. Discussion about the new PAR

The draft PAR for maintenance and extension of the e standard was posted on 5/17/06. An e-mail comment period started Monday 5/22 and ended Friday 6/2. One comment was received, about the inconsistent naming of the standard. The proposal is to use "(the) functional verification language e" in the title and "the e language" where the context is clear.

Andy: There is another E language, where the capital E is used. Traditionally we used times-roman bold italics for the e language.
Yaron: There is no copyright or trademark on 'e', hence any number of languages can be called so. The PAR document is a plain text form, so we can't make the style match.
Joe Daniels: It would be appropriate to note that the 'e' should be styled accordingly in print, this could be added to the PAR.
Victor: Note that the number for the PSL project is wrong (1825 instead of 1850). Also, is the intention to have a joint project with CAG, as mentioned in section 7.1?
Yaron: will fix the PSL project number. The designation in section 7.1 is about standrds with similar scope, System Verilog in this case.
Joe Daniels: Need to make sure that the PAR title and the standard title match.

The following changes were agreed to:
- use "Standard for the Functional Verification Language e" as the title
- use "the e language" anywhere else in the PAR
- add a comment to the title (section 2.1) under section 7.4 (Additional Explanatory Notes): When the e language is mentioned in print the 'e' character should be formatted in Times-Roman Bold Italics, to make it distinctive.
- fix the project number for PSL (1850).

4. Vote for the approval of the new PAR

Considering the draft PAR as posted and the agreed upon changes, a vote is called to approve the PAR.
The vote will be by name, and a 2/3 majority is required, per WG bylaws.

The following results were recorded:

Voting Member	Vote	Comment
Victor Berman	Approve
Avi Bloch	Approve
Serrie-Justine Chapman	Approve
Sandeep Desai	Approve
Stylianos Diamantidis	Approve
Darren Galpin	Approve	(e-mail vote)
Joseph Hupcey	Approve
Sylvie Hurat	Approve
Yaron Kashai	Approve
Eran Keydar	Approve
Michael McNamara	Approve
Steve Pearlmutter		Not present
Andrew Piziali	Approve
David Van Campenhout	Approve
Matan Vax	Approve
David Von Bank	Approve	(e-mail vote)
Henry Von Bank	Approve

The vote passed with 94% return and 100% approval. The PAR as amended is approved for NesCom submission.

5. Other business

Yaron mentioned the discussion with Fraser Worley about errors in the posted BNF. Andy proposed to forward his version of the BNF.
Joe asked about the WG schedule moving forward. Discussion tabled for next meeting.

6. 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.

7. Next meeting

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The next meeting is tentatively set to Monday July 10th at 09:00 AM Pacific time, 17:00 UTC. The date may change according to circumstances.

7. Adjourn

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