IEEESA Standards Board

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IEEE-SA Standards Board Chairmans Report to the
IEEE-SA Standards Board
30 March 2006 Piscataway, NJ
Chair Steve Mills steve.mills_at_hp.com Secretary
Judy Gorman j.gorman_at_ieee.org Administrator Rona
Gertz r.gertz_at_ieee.org
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2005 SASB Summary

• Last SASB meeting series was held on 5-7
  December, 2005
• Year to date
• RevCom recommended approval of
• 34 projects as new standards
• 42 revisions of standards
• 36 reaffirmations of existing standards
• NesCom recommended approval of
• 81 new PARs
• 25 modified PARs
• 57 revision PARs
• 61 PAR extensions. (Includes conditional
  approvals)
• 48 Withdrawals
• PatCom is exploring a number of proposed changes
  to the procedures and LOA
• ProCom launched two ad hocs to explore
  interpretations and to examine the definition of
  interest categories

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2006 SASB Summary

• Year to date
• RevCom recommended approval of
• 6 projects as new standards
• 9 revisions of standards
• 25 reaffirmations of existing standards
• NesCom recommended approval of
• 17 new PARs
• 6 modified PARs
• 13 revision PARs
• 8 PAR extensions. (Includes conditional
  approvals)
• 8 Withdrawals
• PatCom is continuing to explore changes to the
  procedures and LOA
• ProCom will address the tasks of incorporating
  the requirement for declaration of affiliation
  into the procedures and defining procedures for
  issues relating to dominance when identified
• AudCom will publish the accepted PPs on their
  website and maintain these as the official
  versions of the sponsors PPs

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2006 Standards Board

• Chair Steve Mills
• Past SASB Chair Don Wright
• Vice Chair Elected by SASB
• Reappointments    Mark BowmanDennis
  BrophyJoanna GueninMark HalpinBill HopfRich
  HulettDavid LawDaleep MohlaTed OlsenGlenn
  ParsonsRon PetersenMalcolm ThadenRick
  TownsendHoward Wolfman

• TAB Rep Virginia Sulzberger
• New  Bill GoldbachArnie GreenspanBob GrowKen
  HanusTom PrevostGreg RattaRobby
  RobsonAnne-Marie SahazizianWalter Weigel

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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
• Dave Ringle (Secretary)

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

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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
• Jodi Haasz (Secretary)

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

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802.11i/WAPI Status

• The ISO/IEC JTC1 fast track ballots for J1N7903
  (802.11i) and J1N7904 (WAPI) closed on 7 March
  2006
• J1N7903 (802.11i) passed
• J1N7904 (WAPI) failed
• A comment resolution meeting will be held during
  the week of 5 June 2006
• This comment resolution meeting will address
  comments received on both documents

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PatCom Next Steps (1)

• PatCom has been tasked to complete its current
  work items by the end of their September meeting
• The SASB should expect that PatCom
  recommendations will be presented to the SASB
  during the September meeting
• The SASB should begin preparing now and be ready
  to consider these recommendations during the
  September meeting
• A subsequent 30-day letter ballot will be issued
  immediately following the meeting

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PatCom Next Steps (2)

• If the recommendations are approved by the SASB,
  a request will be made to the DOJ or FTC for a
  Business Review Letter on the proposed policy
  changes.
• Upon receipt of the Business Review Letter, the
  policy recommendations will be taken to the BoG
  for their consideration and final approval.

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PatCom Email Reflector

• All SASB members are encouraged to join the
  pp-dialog email reflector.
• Information for joining this reflector may be
  found at
• http//grouper.ieee.org/groups/pp-dialog/sub-inst
  ruct.html

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PatCom Process

• As a part of the PatCom process, the views of
  various stakeholders are being heard
• These views are being expressed by PatCom guests,
  who are appropriately advocating the interests of
  their companies
• Stakeholders interests are not always aligned
  with IEEE interests
• It is the responsibility of the SASB and BoG to
  be advocates of the IEEEs interests

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PatCom The Big Question

• What else do the members of the SASB need to
  prepare themselves for consideration of these
  changes?

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Process Transparency

• Together with counsel, the Standards Association
  is actively investigating alleged violations of
  the standards development process
• A First step policy change has been made to
  enhance transparency. This change requires
  declaration of affiliation by participants, when
  requested
• ProCom has been assigned the action to accelerate
  further PP changes
• One of ProComs first steps will be to develop a
  definition of the term affiliation and describe
  what is expected in a declaration of affiliation

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Corporate Involvementin theIndividual Process

• The topic of corporate involvement in the
  individual process has been discussed with
  several companies
• A proposal to convene a small meeting of
  corporations to further explore this topic has
  been enthusiastically received
• A meeting is being planned for the late spring
  timeframe

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Appeals

• An appeal of C95.1 was heard on Tuesday, 27 March
  2006
• A decision of the appeals panel is forthcoming
  and due in 30 days

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SASB Representative to the CAG

• The SASB has the authority to appoint one of its
  members to serve on the CAG
• If there is any interest in serving a term on the
  CAG, please contact me

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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

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Observations of the Chair
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Building Promoting the Standards Association
Image

• The SA should begin a campaign to proactively
  promote itself
• To the outside world
• To the other organizational units of the IEEE
  (including the BOD)
• Judy Gorman and I have co-authored an article to
  Standards Engineering Magazine
• Other articles are being encouraged

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Civility requires that we listen to others with
knowledge of the possibility that they are right
and we are wrong. Stephen L. Carter Professor
of Law - Yale (Civility Manners, Morals, and
the Etiquette of Democracy)
Thank You!