Meeting 40 Minutes

Teleconference, February 11^th , 2008

A quorum of nine out of eleven voting members present. One non-voting member is also present. Attendance and voter status indicated on the roster web page.

Attendees

• Voting members: Charu Aggarwal, Serrie Chapman, Sandeep Desai, Andrew Piziali, Darren Galpin, Joseph Hupcey, Michael McNamara, Mark Strickland, Matan Vax

• Non-voting members: Joe Daniels

1. Call to Order

Call to order on February 11^th, 2008 at 9:03 am PDT (1704 UTC).

Andrew reminded members to mail a message to "rollcall@ieee1647.org" in order to record their meeting attendance.

2. Approval of Meeting 39 Minutes

Darren Galpin made a motion to approve the meeting 39 minutes.

Matan Vax seconded the motion.

No discussion of minutes and no objections.

Motion approved.

3. Status Update

Andrew: I'd like to welcome a new voting member, Charu Aggarwal, who works for TI. Welcome!

The IEEE-SA ballot was started on the 5th February. There are 29 voters listed. Seven affirmative votes cast to date. Charu, Sandeep and Yaron are the working group members who have not yet voted . Please do so by the 6th of March at https://development.standards.ieee.org/my-site/ballot-activity:

• Choose approve, disapprove or one of the four abstain choices

• Click [Comments] button to comment on the draft standard

• Click [OK] to cast your vote

Update on the schedule: February we have the balloting period to March 6th. Soon we be soliciting for the 2010 standard, and in March we will address any comments raised in the ballot. We will resubmit if necessary, and submit to Revcom in April. I still think that in June we may be able to publish the 2008 standard?

Joe: I didn't want to comment. Publish is the wrong word. It might be approved by June, but not published. Once it is approved you can start planning against that version.

Andrew: Anything else?

[Silence]

4. Editor

Joe D.: None at this point. Waiting for feedback from the ballot.

5. Other Business

Joe Hupcey: There is an IEEE website and a series of pages. It isn't intuitive or obvious at least. Please post a URL in the minutes.

Andrew: I'll post the URL as a message to the working group. I'll then add in a list of what to do beneath that to take you through.

Mac: Please could you mail this to the entire ballot group?

Andrew: Yes. [Andrew: Done on February 11.]

Joe: Remember that you cannot tell people how to vote yes or anything else.

Andrew: Please remember to mail rollcall@ieee1647.org to record attendance.

6. Call for essential patents

The IEEE-SA updated the patent policy effective April 30, 2007.

The details are available in updated slide set at:

http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf (See “Patent related” from the IEEE 1647 home page, “Slides about IEEE Patent Policy”).

If you believe that any patent claims are essential patent claims, please inform the working group. Review the posted slides for more information.

7. Next meeting

Andrew: March 10 at 9 am PDT (1600 UTC)

Could clash with DATE, but no one on the call was planning to go.

8. Adjourn

Darren made a motion to adjourn the meeting.

Serrie seconded the motion.

Meeting adjourned at 9:18 am PST.