Secretarys End of Year Report

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Secretarys End of Year Report

• IEEE-SA Standards Board
• 7 December 2005
• Hallandale Beach, FL, Etats Unis

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2005 Goals

• Maintain a financially viable standards program
• Ensure IEEE-SA protects IEEE interests in legal
  matters
• Maximize international strategic alliances
• Progress support services for standards
  development
• Grow the Corporate Program
• Develop volunteer and staff resources
• Update the Business Strategy

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Four Critical Elements of the Strategy

• Internationalization
• Corporate Program
• Individual Program
• Funding Model

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Developing the Strategy

• Further discussion of the role that IP plays in
  modern standards development
• Increases in legal exposure
• Viability of current patent policy
• Expanded section on impact of emerging market
  forces
• Explicit statement of the value/role of the
  Individual Program

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Moving Forward Internationalization

• Differentiate SA in international arena
• Use global
• Note value of industry-driven rather than
  country-based participation
• IEEE offers lower cost to develop global standard
• Work SA relationship with China standards
  developers
• Evaluate existing international initiatives
• Address the U.S. image of the SA

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Moving Forward Corporate Program

• Importance to the future of the SA
• Improve relationship with the industries we serve
• Identify key industry sectors around which to
  build an IEEE identity (e.g., small batteries,
  BPL, GEOSS, interoperability)
• Establish implement funding model

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Moving Forward Individual Program

• Importance to the future of the SA
• Need for clear message where and when does
  individual/corporate method work best
• Introduction of electronic tools to help
  everyone, including resource-strapped
  participants
• Benefit from outreach in academia
• Pilot program targeting undergrads
• IEC/IEEE Academic Paper Competition

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Moving Forward Funding Model

• Stabilize finances
• PL format under development to evaluate major
  lines of business (Individual Program, Corporate
  Program, Standards-Related Businesses)
• Explore new back-end funding opportunities

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Looking Back and Ahead Critical Areas

• Riding the wave of shifting markets
• Recognize our changing profile increasingly,
  standards drive products, not the reverse
• Ensuring attention to high-impact technologies
  needing standardization
• Making compatible
• Increased importance of standards
• Litigation related to standards
• Best and least best use of our process
• International standards infrastructure new
  market forces
• Preserving the best of IEEEs standards
  traditions while enabling the work of todays key
  drivers
• STAYING STABLE COMPETITIVE

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Riding the wave of shifting markets

• First-ever challenge to IEEE 802 as JTC1
  standards
• Chinese WAPI encryption amendment to IEEE 802.11
  (Wi-Fi) incompatible with base
• Chinese leveraging market power to bend rules of
  International Standards Bodies
• IEEE leveraging broad stakeholder community to
  bring a return to the RULES
• Opening office in China
• Build bridges with key standards and industry
  organizations
• Encourage Chinese technical participation in IEEE
• Looking to other major markets for additional
  engagements e.g., India, Brazil

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Recognizing shift in our profile increasingly,
standards drive products not the reverse

• Growing, active Corporate Program
• 70 members
• 11 projects in first 2 years
• Small batteries for laptops and cell phones
• System verilog
• Broadband over powerlines
• Authentication . . . and more
• Successful conference on Global Collaboration for
  Businesses
• Recognize and address corporate presence in
  individual process
• Address problem areas

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Making compatible . . .

• Increased importance of standards
• Expanding litigation related to standards
• Best and least best use of our process
• International standards infrastructure and new
  market forces
• SOME ACTIONS
• Close partnering with DW in risk areas
• Launched Risk Assessment using AS/NZS 43602004
  Australian/New Zealand Standard RISK MANAGEMENT
• Coaching selected 802 groups
• Reviewing anti-trust oversight, including IPR
• 2) Continued efforts to bring technologists,
  industry, and governments together for
  broad-based decisions solutions
• 3) Launching of SETF pilot and collaboration with
  IEC on Centenary Paper Contest

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Ensuring attention to high-impact technologies
needing standardization

• Some areas of concentration
• GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of
  Systems)
• Robotics
• Nanotechnology
• Healthcare Information Technology

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SAMPLEIndividual-Based Projects

• Bioinformatics P1953, P1953.1, P1953.2
• Cognitive Radio P1900.1, P1900.2, P1900.3
• BPL P1675, P1775
• Nanotechnology P1650, P1670, P1690
• Organic Electronics P1620, P1620.1
• Clean Products P1680

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SAMPLE Corporate Projects

• Laptop Batteries IEEE 1625
• Cell Phone Batteries P1725
• System Verilog IEEE 1800
• BPL P1901
• Memory Channel P1896
• Flash Memory Authentication P1667

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Moving Forward Other

• Maximizing resources
• Preparing the staff for changes ahead
• Providing participants with 24/7 standards
  development tools
• training

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Final Thoughts for 2005 . . .

• We accomplished much more than we realized
• Why didnt we realize this?
• WAPI / IEEE 802.11i
• Risk Assessment / Insurance / Litigation
• Increased focus on employee morale

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Therefore, double congratulations on an excellent
year of progress and growth!