SAB Vitality Committee Report Annette Reilly June 3, 2014
Vitality Committee Purpose and Approach “Meet with sponsors to transmit best practices among them and to recommend reorganization of sponsors with diminishing workload” Approach: –Identify existing and potential new measures of vitality for sponsors –Identify indications of moribund or dysfunctional sponsors –Collect performance data for identified vitality indicators –Recommend changes in sponsor status if indicated Support strategic discussions to contribute to the vitality of SAB as a whole through identifying new projects or sponsor committees (working with Special Projects) Build the IEEE-CS brand as the SDO of choice. 2Vitality May 2014
Vitality Indicators Productivity: Number of active revision and new projects, projects started, abandoned, completed before PAR expiration Engagement: Number of active working groups, number of working group and SC members, number of study groups, liaisons to other standards development organizations (SDO) and IEEE-CS TCs, extent of international participation, longevity of leadership, involvement of new leaders/members, involvement of major industry stakeholders and users Compliance: Operating within approved P&P Sustainment: Revision or stabilization of a portfolio of approved standards; use of strategic planning to identify new projects; relevance of standards to current technology –Not a major concern in 2014, but 62 of 286 projects will need revision or archiving in Vitality Committee Feb 14
Vitality observations Sponsor committees range from very large portfolios to start-ups with no completed projects –Both can be vital sponsors –Newer sponsors TT, CCSC, IA have new active projects Expiring PARs: 2/3 of sponsor committees have projects with a PAR expiring in 2014 that are not yet in ballot (13 of 126 active projects) –Possible Causes: WG chair change, difficulty reaching consensus, lack of urgency from WG and sponsor, lack of active WG members, need for standard has waned Concerns: Sponsors with no new work –New sponsor FIFA –Mature portfolio: SI (one in revision), PA (expired procedures) 4Vitality May 2014
Sponsor vitality data 5SAB Vitality, May 2014 Sponsor CommitteePublished Projects = PAR Complete Revision in work New in work Incomplete and PAR expires 12/31/2014 WG with active projects P&P tillComments Cloud Computing (CCSC) Design Automation (DA) P1735-preballot Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIFA) PAR P2409 deferred in March Information Assurance IA P1667 pre-ballot LAN/MAN (IEEE 802, LM) in RevCom, P802.11ah, P80211ai Learning Technology (LT) P , P Microprocessor (MSC) P1788, P1817; P1823 in comments res Portable Applications (PA) no new work, P&P expired Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SI) P1278.2, no new work Software & Systems Engineering (S2ESC) P1062, P1828 Standards Activity Board (SAB): 1680, 1857, , PAR expiring; Storage Systems Test Technology P , P1804; 1 in comments res. Voting Systems TOTALS