IEEE-SA Liaison Report SAB Meeting March 2005 Don Wright Director of Standards, Lexmark International Past Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board

2004 SASB Summary Last SASB meeting series was held on December 6 – 8, 2004 RevCom recommended approval of 45 projects as new standards 36 revisions of standards 42 reaffirmations of existing standards. NesCom recommended approval of 84 new PARs 23 modified PARs 31 revision PARs 67 PAR extensions. (Includes conditional approvals) PatCom is routinely handling LOAs and other patent issues. It addressed a request from 802 to more clearly state the policy on disclosure of licensing terms in working groups. ProCom has considered, debated and acted upon a number of updates to the SASB Bylaws and Ops Manual. It served as the sponsor of the activity to the develop the model procedures for Working Groups. AudCom has continued to work through the issues with Sponsor P&P. They exited 2004 having made progress in bring closure to the few sponsors who have not yet submitted their procedures for review.

2005 SASB Leadership 2005 Leadership: 2005 Meeting Schedule: Chair Steve Mills (CS) Vice Chair TBD NesCom Ron Petersen RevCom Malcolm Thaden PatCom Don Wright (CS) ProCom Lowell Johnson (CS) AudCom Ray Hapeman SCC Liaison Richard Hulett 2005 Meeting Schedule: March 18 - 20 Atlanta June 7 - 9 Piscataway Sept 20 - 22 Piscataway December 5 - 7 Florida

Don Wright, Past Chair (CS) 2005 SASB Membership Steve Mills, Chair (CS) Mark Bowman Dennis Brophy (CS) Joe Bruder Bob Davis (CS) Joanna Guenin (CS) Mark Halpin Ray Hapeman Bill Hopf Rich Hulett Lowell Johnson (CS) Hermann Koch David Law (CS) Daleep Mohla Paul Nikolich (CS) Ted Olsen Glenn Parsons (CS) Ron Petersen Gary Robinson (CS) Frank Stone Malcolm Thaden Rick Townsend (CS) Joe Watson Howard Wolfman Don Wright, Past Chair (CS) Richard V. Cox (TAB) 11 of 26 are CS Red are new members Green rotate off after 2005

2005 SASB Chair’s Priorities A year of enlightenment. IP, business Impact on process and policy Continue work on the organization and oversight of SCCs Continue the “Educating the Volunteers” program Strengthen our relationship with our standards sponsors

Upcoming March SASB Meeting PatCom is consider mandating the use of the LOA form and rejecting free form letters. AudCom continuing to make progress on accepting Sponsor P&Ps including the many CS Sponsors. ProCom will consider changes to the Ops Manual and By-Laws relating to: Mandatory RAC Coordination Making the SCC Coordinator an official position Loosening rules on new PARs in relation to Sponsor P&P status. WG voting rules (I-300.4(4) vs special)

IEEE Bylaws I-300.4(4) Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, the Constitution, these Bylaws, or the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law of the State of New York, any action required or permitted to be taken by any board or committee of any organizational unit of the IEEE (other than the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Major Boards, the Standing Committees and any other board or committee reporting directly to the Board of Directors) may be taken without a meeting. Unless a more restrictive voting requirement is specified in the governing documents of the board or committee, an affirmative vote of a majority of all the voting members of the board or committee shall be required to approve the action. The results of the vote shall be confirmed promptly in writing or by electronic transmission. The writings and/or electronic transmissions shall be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the board or committee. “Electronic transmission” means any form of electronic communication, such as e-mail, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient.

IEEE-SA Board of Governors Held its first meeting of 2005 last week. Don Heirman is the 2005-2006 SA President. Major strategic issue being worked is the funding model. SA receives NO FUNDING from the greater IEEE and selling standards has a limited life as the major funding model of the SA.

IEEE-SA Board of Governors The SA BoG created a standing Fellows Committee: 5.8 Fellows Committee This committee is responsible for seeking and encouraging nominations for the membership grade of IEEE Fellow from the IEEE standards development community. This committee shall consist of at least three but not more than five members, including the chair, all of whom shall be of Fellow grade of the IEEE and members of the IEEE Standards Association. The IEEE-SA President shall appoint the chair of the Fellows Committee for a two-year term, renewable once at the discretion of the IEEE-SA President. The other members of the committee shall be appointed by the IEEE-SA President for a term of one-year, renewable at the discretion of the IEEE-SA President.

IEEE-SA Board of Governors The BoG N&A Committee, of which I am a member, is actively searching for Members-at-Large for the BoG as well as members of the CAG and the SASB. The election for 2006 IEEE-SA President Elect is this fall. Candidates are: George Arnold (Comm. Society) Ray Hapeman (Comm. Society) Don Wright (CS) Running this fall for 2006-2007 IEEE-SA BoG Members-at-Large include: Paul Nikolich (CS) vs Carl Stevenson (CS) Bruce McClung vs. Ted Olsen

SAB Actions Needed The SASB term limits of three CS leaders (Davis, Nikolich & Robinson) are reached at the end of 2005. We need to identify other CS leaders to be considered for the SASB. Are there others who should be considered for the BoG, the CAG, or the SASB?