P1246990955lSeHi

1
IEEE-SA Standards Board Chairs Report to the
IEEE-SA Standards Board
6 December 2006 Boca Raton, FL
Chair Steve Mills steve.mills_at_hp.com Secretary
Judy Gorman j.gorman_at_ieee.org Administrator Rona
Gertz r.gertz_at_ieee.org
2
2006 SASB Summary

• Last SASB meeting series was held on 13-15
  September 2006
• Year to date (as of September meeting)
• RevCom recommended approval of
• 21 projects as new standards
• 26 revisions of standards
• 42 reaffirmations of existing standards
• NesCom recommended approval of
• 59 new PARs
• 31 modified PARs
• 29 revision PARs
• 21 PAR extensions
• 14 Withdrawals
• 5 Deferred
• PatCom has completed its investigation of changes
  to the procedures, bylaws, and LOA
• ProCom has progressed its work in considering
  changes to improve the definitions of dominance,
  affiliations, and ethics

3
IP Policy Recommendations

• Congratulations to the members of PatCom for
  completing their work to review and update the IP
  Policy

4
SASB Representative to the CAG

• With the support of the Standards Board I have
  recommended and the BoG has confirmed the
  appointment of Jim Hughes (Microsoft) as our
  representative to the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory
  Group

5
Paul Nikolich

• Paul Nikolich will be undergoing surgery today
• His recovery is estimated to be 4 6 weeks
• Mat Sherman will be serving as the interim chair
  of 802 while Paul is recovering

6
IEEE 802.20 Actions

• A report summarizing the status of the 802.20
  investigation was distributed to the Standards
  Board on 25 November 2006

7
IEEE 802.20IEEE 802 EC Involvement

• IEEE 802 EC non-conflicted members have been
  identified
• An 802 EC Oversight Committee has been created
  and will work with the SASB Oversight Committee
• Requests for Declarations of Affiliation were
  issued to members of IEEE 802.20
• The IEEE 802 EC performed interviews of several
  IEEE 802.20 members during the meeting week
• The IEEE 802 OC is considering what, if any,
  further actions should be taken

8
IEEE 802.20Oversight

• SASB Oversight Committee
• Steve Mills
• Don Wright
• Rich Hulett
• Bill Goldbach
• Bruce McClung
• IEEE 802 EC Oversight Committee
• Geoff Thompson
• Mike Takefman
• Arnie Greenspan

9
IEEE 802.20November Meeting

• Arnie Greenspan did an excellent job in managing
  his first 802.20 meeting
• Two strong camps remain
• The participants are still not listening to one
  another they remain very entrenched in their
  positions
• Arnie is working with the 802 OC to develop a
  strategy for helping the working group to
  progress its work

10
Appeals

• The appeal hearing of an 802 Executive Committee
  appeal panels ruling requiring 802.20 to
  reaffirm the decision to shorten the technology
  submittal period to 30 days was held on Tuesday,
  5 December 2006
• The appeal panels decision will announced within
  30 days

11
2006Review
12
2006 Appeals

• An appeal of C95.1 was heard on Tuesday, 27 March
  2006. The appeals panel found in favor of the
  appellee
• An appeal of the 802 Executive Committees ruling
  on the request to extend the PAR for 802.20 was
  heard on Wednesday, 13 September 2006. The
  appeal panel found in favor of the appellee
• An appeal of the June SASB decision to suspend
  802.20 was requested and later withdrawn
• Four appeals of the Sept. SASB decisions on
  802.20 have been filed. The right to hear these
  appeals at the SASB has been waived they will be
  heard by the BoG

13
European Patent Office

• The European Patent Office requested access to
  802 documents for the purpose of aiding in their
  prior art searches
• The license agreement was signed in August

14
Electronic Voting Requirements in Standards
Development

• The 802 ExCom requested that the SA revisit the
  electronic voting requirement
• The BoG approved moving forward and asked the
  SASB to prepare a request and justification
• An SASB ad hoc was formed to address this
  question
• At their 19 November meeting the IEEE Board of
  Directors passed a motion amending IEEE Bylaw
  I-300.4 to include

For standards-developing committees within the
IEEE Standards Association, unless a more
restrictive voting requirement is specified in
the governing documents of the committee, an
affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast,
provided a majority of all the voting members of
the committee responded, shall be required to
approve an action taken without a meeting.
15
2006 SASB Priorities

• A year of action
• Complete the investigation of current IP
  questions and deliver recommendations to the BoG
• Identify and formalize a model for the
  transparent involvement of entities in
  individual standards development activities
• Promote and strengthen the image of the IEEE-SA
• As a competent and well managed operation
• As a developer of globally relevant standards

16
Patent Policy Recommendations

• As recommended by PatCom
• Mandating the use of the LOA form
• Survival of Assurances after mergers,
  acquisitions, etc.
• Irrevocability of LOAs after submission and
  acceptance
• Applicability of LOAs to amendments and revisions
• Inclusion of not to exceed rates on the LOA
• Amendment of claims / subsequent discovery of
  patents once the patent holder is on notice

17
Process Transparency

• Actions taken to address allegations of process
  abuse
• IEEE 802 - 802.20
• Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC)

18
Process Transparency

• Improved policy recommendations on
• IP Policy (PatCom SASB LOA ad hoc)
• Definition of Dominance
• Stronger disclosure of affiliation requirements
• Enhanced policy on antitrust practices
• Ethics enforcement
• Requirements for disclosure of affiliation in
  Sponsor Ballot

19
Process TransparencyCorporate Meeting3 August
2006

• A meeting of standards leaders from several key
  companies was held at the Motorola facility in
  Schaumburg, IL
• All participants agreed that the corporate
  involvement in the individual model of standards
  development within the IEEE was causing problems
• There were several recommendations on possible
  approaches to addressing this problem
• A follow-up meeting is being planned for late
  January 2007

20
Promoting the IEEE-SAArticles
21
Promoting the IEEE-SAPress Strategy

• The strategy was to provide timely information to
  help ensure the availability of accurate
  information
• Issuing statements and news releases enabled the
  media to deliver fast coverage that accurately
  represented the IEEEs position
• Key message documents/FAQs were developed to
  ensure consistency and accuracy
• Our strategy helped turn the tide of negative
  coverage to neutral in the China media
• Issuing timely news announcements for 802.20
  minimized requests for interviews and resulted in
  reasonably accurate coverage

22
Promoting the IEEE-SAPress Releases

• IEEE 802.11i - 7 June 2006
• SASB June decisions - 15 June 2006
• (IEEE 802.20 suspension)
• SASB Sept. decisions 19 Sept 2006
• (officer removal/disbanding ballot body)
• IEEE 802.20 chair appointment - 23 Oct. 06

23
Promoting the IEEE-SAPress Interviews

• 802.20
• 8 interviews
• 3 written responses
• 802.11i
• 2 interviews (low?)
• 19 written responses

24
Promoting the IEEE-SAPress Publications

• The Wall Street Journal (2)
• EE Times
• China Economic Review
• Business Week
• Nikkei
• Forbes
• Harvard Business School Research Paper
  Government Intervention in Standardization The
  Case of WAPI

25
Promoting the IEEE-SAPress Coverage

• Press Clippings
• Clipping service
• 802.20 - 42 clippings
• (13 pickups of 802.20 news release announcing
  removal of officers)
• 802.11i - 287 clippings on
• China media
• 367 clips in June, July and August
• 80 specific IEEE mentions
• Many are WAPI positioning
• The Web (13 November Google)
• IEEE 802.20 found
• 576 articles related to the WG suspension
• 148 articles related to the restart of the group.
• IEEE 802.11i/WAPI
• 138 articles
• There are thousands on 802.11i

26
Promoting the IEEE-SA

• Thank You!
• Marsha Longshore
• Fran Tardo
• Sunny Barber
• Karen McCabe
• Michael Bratnick
• Paul Nikolich
• Paul Turner

27
2006 Standards Board

• Chair Steve Mills
• Past Chair Don Wright
• Vice Chair Rich Hulett
• Mark Bowman
• Dennis Brophy
• Bill Goldbach
• Arnie Greenspan
• Bob Grow
• Joanna Guenin
• Mark Halpin
• Ken Hanus
• Bill Hopf
• David Law
• Daleep Mohla

• TAB Rep 
• Virginia Sulzberger
• Ted Olsen
• Glenn Parsons
• Ron Petersen
• Tom Prevost
• Greg Ratta
• Robby Robson
• Anne-Marie Sahazizian
• Malcolm Thaden
• Rick Townsend
• Howard Wolfman

28
2006 Standards Board

• Non-Voting MembersMembers Emeriti (2) Jay
  Forster, Joe Koepfinger NIST Representative -
  Alan Cookson NRC Representative - Satish
  Aggarwal DOE Liaison - Dick DeBlasio

29
2006 Standards Board Committees

• AudCom
• Daleep Mohla (Chair)
• Ron Petersen
• Gary Robinson
• Howard Wolfman
• Bob Davis
• Arnie Greenspan
• Rona Gertz (Secretary)
• PatCom
• Don Wright (Chair)
• Dennis Brophy
• David Law
• Chuck Adams
• Rich Hulett
• Rick Townsend
• Karen Kenney
• Dave Ringle (Secretary)

• ProCom
• Rich Hulett (Chair)
• Daleep Mohla
• Malcolm Thaden
• Bob Grow
• Greg Ratta
• Glenn Parsons
• Howard Wolfman
• Dave Ringle (Secretary)

30
2006 Standards Board Committees

• NesCom
• Ron Petersen (Chair)
• Joanna Guenin
• Mark Halpin
• Ken Hanus
• William Hopf
• Hermann Koch
• Ted Olsen
• Glenn Parsons
• Anne-Marie Sahazizian
• Rick Townsend
• Ken Kousky
• Narayanan Ramachandran
• Robby Robson
• Jon Rosdahl
• Sherry Hampton (Secretary)

• RevCom
• Malcolm Thaden (Chair)
• Stephen Adam
• Satish Aggarwal
• Mark Bowman
• Dennis Brophy
• Bill Goldbach
• Jim Hughes
• John Kulick
• David Law
• Tom Prevost
• Gary Robinson
• Geoff Thompson
• John Trottier
• Dave Ringle (Secretary)

31
To the 2006 Standards Boardand its committees
For your dedicationandthe significant
contributionsyou have madeA sincere thank
youfor a job well done!
32
To the entire IEEE-SA staff

• A heartfelt thanks!

33
2007The Year of Renewal
34
Introducing theIEEE-SASB Members 2007

• ChairmanMills, Steve
• Past Chairman Wright, Don
• Reappoint Goldbach, William Greenspan,
  ArnieGrow, RobertGuenin, JoannaHanus,
  KenHopf, William, IIIHulett, RichardLaw,
  DavidParsons, GlennPetersen, RonPrevost, Tom

• Ratta, GregRobson, RobbySahazizian,
  Anne-MarieThaden, MalcolmTownsend,
  RichardWolfman, Howard
• TAB Representative
• TBD
• New Gelman, AlexKulick, JohnRamachandran,Naray
  ananDeBlasio, Dick

35
IEEE-SASB Notes

• Many thanksBowman, MarkHalpin, MarkOlsen,
  Ted Mohla, DaleepBrophy, Dennis

36
Here is the test to find whether your mission on
Earth is finished if you're alive, it isn't
. Richard Bach
Best Wishes for a happy and safe holiday
season Thank You!