IEEE Communications Society Standards Activities OpCom2 * : September 2011 Venice, Italy Curtis A. Siller, Jr. IEEE ComSoc Standards Board (CSSB) Chair IEEE ComSoc Director of Standards 1 * This report builds on, but does not unnecessarily repeat items from, my BoG report

What’s Happening? DySPAN Standards Committee Update Events Surrounding Traditional Responsibilities Old Stuff - Hot Stuff - New Stuff 2

DySPAN Standards Committee Background You know the history from prior reports… DySPAN Standards Committee is now Formalized Vice Chair and Secretary named and await CSSB approval Oversight still in place IEEE SASB Gelman/Grow/Kulich IEEE CSSB Gelman/Hoffmeyer/Siller Hoping to spin DySPAN SC off in 2012 as a semi-autonomous sponsor, when SASB and CSSB approve lifting oversight 3 * Funded from CSSB budget

Existing Initiatives P (“SIEPON”) Compliance PARs Three compliance PARs approved by NesCom and SASB P Approved for Working Group Ballot P1903 (“NGSON”) Became an Approved Standard Next meeting will co-locate with GLOBECOM 2011 Collocation at ICC 2011 pre-empted by Japanese disaster P1900.4a Became a New Standard P PAR Approved by SASB A confidential observation… P (Real-Time Multimedia) PAR Approved Alex and Curtis, with supporting IEEE SA Staff, attended the first meeting; collocated with September IEEE SASB meetings P and P PARs poised for NesCom consideration in October P1900.5a must wait until later in the standards cycle 4

Hot Stuff New Appeal Against CSSB, in the context of P PAR Prior Appeal was brought against P Chair Appellee Reply Brief tendered 14 September 2011 Over 300 hours of Siller’s time With IEEE SA-funded legal support Appeal Panel Hearing scheduled for 5 September in Piscataway A new P complaint lodged 13 September 2011 by same Appellant.. 5

Familiar Stuff On-Going Effort to Resolve Bylaws Impasse Hosted “Standards Reconciliation Summit” ComSoc Headquarters Attended by: Chand Naresh (Chair, North Jersey Section), Tarek El-Bawab (Chair, TAOS), Rob Fish (Secretary, CSSB), Stefano Galli (MAL, ITU G.hnem Chair), Alex Gelman (Vice Chair, CSSB), Jack Howell (ExDir), Curtis Siller (Chair, CSSB) Separate Reports prepared Little progress toward reconciliation of differences; much shouting My view: Much ado about little TC Liaisons are invited; they participate - when they’re interested Everything is working fine TC interest is exaggerated Misunderstanding: CSSB role is mostly about “process” TCs cannot be recognized as SA entities 6

On the Horizon? Standard for Indic Input Method for Mobile Phones (PAR) SmartGrid PAR: Faure/Golmie/Vinor DySPAN Workshop in Washington DC this past weekend P planning panel with IFIP 2012 Siller/Gelman invited to participate ICC 2012 Standards Panel Pubs: Building on IEEE CommMag Standards Series Series Editors: Yoichi Maeda and Mostafa Sherif Five Feature Topics currently scheduled Mehmet Toy (CNSC) developing CommMag FT, 2012 SIEPON FT scheduled for CommMag in July 2012 Two other FTs will have standards content = 7 FTs JSAC “Smart Grid” CFP Will likely include standards-related material Investigating revenue opportunities to off-set standards development expenses September meeting with Mills (IEEE SA President) and Don Wright (IEEE SA Treasurer) 7