SAB Vitality Committee Report Annette Reilly June 8, 2016

Vitality Committee Purpose and Approach “Meet with sponsors to transmit best practices among them and to recommend reorganization of sponsors with diminishing workload” Approach: –Evaluate 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 Portfolio Sustainment: Revision or stabilization of a portfolio of approved standards; use of strategic planning to identify new projects; relevance of standards to current technology 3Vitality Committee Feb 14

Portfolio review priorities Revise or withdraw? Standards expiring in 2018 Older standards with no expiration date o Some may be stabilized, leave as is Technically obsolete standards Standards inconsistent with more recent standards Withdrawals not reflected in IEEE standards store New standards for new or existing sponsors? New technology areas (IEEE-CS top 9 of 2016) Market or producer interest Gaps in existing work program 4Vitality May 2014

Sponsor Watch List--Recommendations No reports on Portfolio reviews: –Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIFA)— PAR withdrawal and sponsor inactivation –Information Assurance (IA) —realign for relevance to cybersecurity initiatives. No active projects. Reassign portfolio to SAB pending realignment. –Storage Systems (SS) — transfer projects to Microprocessor Sponsor and inactivate SS Sponsor 5Vitality May 2014

Standards to be revised/withdrawn 6Vitality May 2014 Some reduction in 2018 expiring standards Administrative action needed on 54 pre-2008 standards with no expiration date

Expiring PARS 7Vitality May 2014 Expiring PARs= project incomplete after 4 years. Finish in 2016? PAR extension request? Withdraw PAR or let it expire? Sponsor PARS expiring 2016 Still in DraftAction Needed LM aj, ak, aq, , LT10 S2ESC431009, , 1723 SAB TT VSSC

Sponsor P&P expiration 8SAB Vitality, May 2014

Sponsor leadership succession Current activity is concerned with inactive Sponsor groups All Sponsor P&P have requirements for election or appointment of the Sponsor chair and vice chair Sponsor chairs may serve an indefinite number of terms Future action: review conformance with Sponsors Possible causes of vitality concerns: Sponsor change, lack of sponsor change, WG chair change or not, difficulty reaching consensus, lack of urgency from WG and sponsor, lack of active WG members, need for standard has waned 9Vitality May 2014