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Meeting 23 MinutesTeleconference, July 10th, 2006 A quorum of 12 out of 15 voting members present. Attendance indicated on the roster web page. 1. Call to orderMeeting was called to order at 09:00 PST/17:00 GMT. 2. Approval of minutes from meeting 22Darren Galpin moves to approve the minutes as posted. Joe seconds. No objections/abstainers. The motion to approve the minutes was carried. 3. Work plans moving forwardThe main discussion for today is the work plan and moving forward. As you may be aware we have filed another PAR (project authorization request) and we are planning to do some work on a revision of the standard. This work plan is about what we're going to do for this revision. I've had a bunch of informal discussions with the help of Joe Hupcey and other WG members. The main candidates are: Support for the eRM library, the main language features associated with that are sequences and messages Support for method ports which are useful for transaction level modeling style, getting more and more common. Some minor issues that were too late to be included in the current standard, most notably the action block associated with dut_error, if you recall DUT error is part of the standard but it doesn't allow an action block which the current implementation does. This short list could be addressed in a reasonably short time frame. On the other hands there is room to include some more stuff if we feel that we should. Mike McNamara : any feedback on the first version? are people finding errors or bits that are unclear and so on?? Yaron : No – I have not seen any comments about the documents. Actually I don't think people have had a chance to see the documents because I don't think the IEEE have published it yet. Joe confirms - the IEEE standard wasn't published yet. Mike : there will certainly be issues that people raise WRT to the standard – there will certainly be typos and areas that are not really clear and so on. Yaron : We'll certainly expect that, that's part of the PAR we propose and that is obviously going to be part of this work. That's on demand I guess, when we face issues we'll deal with them. Yaron: As far as the PAR is concerned I had some correspondence with Nescom officials, they didn't like some of the wording because it was in the future tense, it has to be in present tense. But they didn't make any comments on the content of the actual PAR, the work. So I'm still expecting to get the approval in timeframe they proposed. Beyond that if somebody suddenly feels that we're missing something, its very early in the process and we can certainly consider adding other material. I will initiate the process of donating some documents from Cadence to use for the baseline for the LRM that we're going to produce – this may take some time. When the work starts, we'll look for a smaller group of people who are going to be intimately involved in making that happen– then the bigger group will function as a review committee. 4. Other businessYaron : Will have to conduct new elections for Chair and Vice-Chair in the near future. I'll update the WG about the process. We will also schedule a dinner at or just before the DAC week. 5. Patent policyThe 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 meetingPlease remember to send in your e-mail to rollcall@ieee1647.org so that your attendance on this call is registered. • Please DON'T send these e-mails to the reflector • Use the e-mail address you registered with The next meeting is tentatively set to Tuesday September 10th at 09:00 AM Pacific time, 17:00 UTC. The date may change according to circumstances. 7. Adjourn |
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