Robby Robson

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Report to the IEEE Computer Society Standards
Activity Board

• Robby Robson
• (IEEE SAB Vice Chair)
• May 13 14, 2008

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WHAT IS AN OPEN MEETING?

• Issues raised in the context of ANSI requirements

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Does charging a fee contradict open to all
materially interested persons?
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What is an undue financial burden?
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Are Our PPs in order?
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IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVE to

• THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR LEARNING,
  EDUCATION AND TRAINING SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY

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Background

• LETSI started in June, 2007.Two major
  motivations
• De facto adoption of SCORM as a world standard
• Need for coordination and collaboration to
  achieve goals
• LETSI General Principles
• Organizations with a material interest in LET
  must collaborate and coordinate their efforts.
• Technology-enabled LET must be accessible to all
  people of all nations.
• Broadly applicable LET technical reference models
  should be based on accredited standards.
• LETSI will address the needs of diverse
  communities of practice across all segments of
  the LET world compulsory education, higher
  education, corporate and government training,
  professional continuing education, certification
  training, etc.

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Background

• LETSI Organizational Principles
• The LETSI process must be transparent, democratic
  and sustainable.
• LETSI will maintain stewardship of SCORM.
• LETSI will not, itself, develop specifications or
  standards. LETSI will develop broadly applicable
  reference models that address the needs of the
  diverse LET community.
• LETSI will not, itself, develop reference models
  that address the requirements of particular
  geographies, market segments, or LET communities
  of practice.
• LETSI will operate in a cost effective and
  efficient manner in conducting its business,
  establishing a lean organization focused on
  marshalling the efforts of outside resources
  towards meeting LETSIs goals.

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Background

• LETSI Intellectual Property Principles
• LET organizations should follow a patent policy
  that requires full disclosure of IP claims and an
  agreement to royalty-free terms as a first choice
  and Reasonable and Non-discriminatory (RAND)
  terms as an acceptable second choice.
• LETSI will give preference to standards and
  specifications that
• Are unencumbered by royalty-bearing patents.
• Allow worldwide, royalty-free distribution.
• Are developed by internationally accredited
  standards development organizations or on a path
  to be submitted to an internationally accredited
  standards development organization.

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Background

• LETSI kick-off June, 2007
• LETSI organized as a legal entity under IEEE
  ISTO November, 2007
• LETSI 12 Founding Sponsors sign MOU and form
  interim boardU.S. DoD Advanced Distributed
  Learning initiative, Adobe Systems, Aviation
  Industry CBT Committee, Booz Allen Hamilton,
  Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media
  Technology, Korea Institute for Electronic
  Commerce, Masie Learning Consortium,
  MedBiquitous, Schools Interoperability Framework,
  IEEE LTSC, Instituto Latinoamericano de la
  Communicacion Educativa, IEEE Computer Society.
• Focused first on the future of SCORM
• Gathering white papers
• Planning SCORM World Congress
• Planning for draft of SCORM 2.0 in December,
  2008
• Coordinating among organizations