CS VP Stds Report

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SAB Vitality in 2005-2006 March 9, 2005 By
Claire Lohr SAB Vitality Chair
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Topics

• Goals
• History
• Recommended infrastructure
• Next activities

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History

• 2003 Survey about possible improvements
• 2004 Analysis of SCs web sites
• 2004 Solicitation of criteria for
  self-assessment of vitality

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Goals

• Near term
• Create a systematic approach for interacting
  with each sponsor chair
• Facilitate increase in productivity
• Facilitate increase in satisfaction
• Long term
• Broaden market opportunities
• Bundle standards with services
• Coordination with TAB (emerging standards)

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Recommended Infrastructure

• Annual survey (varied content)
• What works
• What doesnt work
• Any changes needed in the SC inventory (more,
  less)?
• Annual internal project for 2005, increase
  commonality of web sites
• Annual external project for 2005, increase
  standards topics participation in conferences
• Annual post-mortem and plan for the next year

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Next Activities

• Annual survey
• 1st QTR solicit SCs - do they have anything they
  want included
• 2nd QTR draft survey instrument, get SAB review,
  make modifications
• 3rd QTR conduct the survey
• 4th QTR compile and report on results

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Next Activities

• Increase commonality of the web sites
• 1st QTR draft target commonality list and
  circulate to SCs for comment. Develop final
  commonality list (first pass). Draft a PIF to
  get funding support.
• 2nd QTR distribute the commonality list to the
  SCs and ask for their feedback
• 3rd QTR draft and distribute common element
  templates using said funding
• 4th QTR measure SC web site progress vs. plan and
  the final goal

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Next Activities

• Increase standards topics participation in
  conferences
• 1st QTR include in the survey where are they
  presenting standards information at conferences
  now
• 2nd QTR wait for more information from SAB/TAB
  coordination activity
• 3rd QTR TBD
• 4th QTR annual collection and reporting on status
  across all of the SCs