IEEE-SA Liaison Report SAB Meeting March 2008 Don Wright Director of Standards, Lexmark International IEEE-SA Treasurer Member, IEEE SA Board of Governors Patent Committee Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors

2008 SASB 2008 Leadership: l ChairBob Grow (CS) l Vice ChairTBD l Past ChairSteve Mills (CS, ComSoc) l NesComTom Prevost l RevComDavid Law (CS) l PatComDon Wright (CS, ComSoc, SIT) l ProComRichard Hulett l AudComGlenn Parsons (CS) l SCC LiaisonSteve Mills 2008 Meeting Schedule: l March 25-27Piscataway, NJ l June 10-12Piscataway, NJ l September 24-26Seoul, South Korea l December 8-10Florida

2008 SASB Membership l Chairman: Grow, Bob l Past Chairman: Mills, Steve l Reappointments: DeBlasio, Dick Goldbach, William Greenspan, Arnie Hanus, Ken Hulett, Richard Kulick, John Law, David Parsons, Glenn Petersen, Ron Prevost, Tom Ramachandran, Narayanan Sahazizian, Anne-Marie Thaden, Malcolm Wolfman, Howard Wright, Don l TAB Representative: Gelman, Alex l New for 2007: Berman, Victor Drozd, Andrew Epstein, Mark Hughes, Jim Kim, Young Kyun Powers, Chuck Rosdahl, Jon

2008 SASB Committees l NESCOM Tom Prevost, Chair Karen Bartleson Anthony Cerino Richard DeBlasio Mark Epstein Ken Hanus Young Kyun Kim Hung Ling Ted Olsen Ron Petersen Narayanan Ramachandran Jon Rosdahl Anne-Marie Sahazizian Michael Stora Geoff Thompson Lisa Yacone, NesCom Secretary David Law, Chair Satish Aggarwal Phillip Barber Victor Berman Clint Chaplin Wael Diab Andrew Drozd Alex Gelman Daniel Giusto Jim Hughes John Kulick Gary Robinson Samuel Sciacca Malcom Thaden Moira Patterson, RevCom Secretary l REVCOM

2008 SASB Committees l PROCOM Rich Hulett, Chair William Goldbach Jim Hughes David Law Glenn Parsons Chuck Powers Malcolm Thaden Dave Ringle, ProCom Sec. Don Wright, Chair Rich Hulett John Kulick Karen Kenney (non-voting) David Law Steve Mills Fran O’Brien Claire Topp (Legal Counsel) Michael Lindsay (Legal Counsel) Dave Ringle, PatCom Sec. l PATCOM Glenn Parsons, Chair Clint Chaplin Arnie Greenspan Ted Olsen Ron Petersen Chuck Powers Gary Robinson Howard Wolfman Rona Gertz, AudCom Sec. l AUDCOM

RevCom Statistics (as of December 2007 SASB Meeting) ’99’00‘01‘02‘03‘04‘05‘068 year avg ‘07Jan 2008 (pending) New Revision TOTAL Reaffirmation TOTAL

NesCom Statistics (as of December 2007 SASB Meeting) New PARs 71/378/381/1684/648/577/1243/1246/1 Modified PARs 50/14125/723/222/329/149/120 Revision of Stds. 47/245/257/1331/2 49/747/331/1 Extension Req. 53/168/1261/1567/1173/1571/1556/1780/14 Withdrawals Admin. Withdrawals /12639 TOTAL 248/7263/17272/51240/22223/25265/36235/33237/16

Activities at the March SASB Mtg l ProCom l Received an update from the Copyright ad hoc on its progress towards developing policies and practices to address copyright issues. l Recommended P&P changes to implement the two step reaffirmation process. l Received a report from an ad hoc working on language dealing with external representatives. l Discussed the hierarchy of documents with P&Ps including the implications of “invisible” board resolutions.

Activities at the March SASB Mtg l AudCom l AudCom corrected some errors in the status of the P&P for a few Sponsors l AudCom discussed the need for model WG P&P and how they will be verified. No decisions at this point. l PatCom l PatCom agreed to a new shorter version of the patent policy slide set to be used at all standards development meetings starting no later than 1 June l A new FAQ was approved to provide direction to WG chairs on LOAs when using portions of another standard in a new IEEE standard.

2008 IEEE-SA Board of Governors  George Arnold, President  Chuck Adams, President-Elect  Bob Grow, SASB Chair  Steve Mills, Past SASB Chair & CAG Chair  Don Wright, Treasurer  Judith Gorman*, Secretary  Greg Saunders  Ted Olsen  Phil Wennblom  Ben Johnson  Dennis Brophy  Lanny Floyd  Bilel Jamoussi  Fran O’Brien * Non-voting

IEEE-SA Board of Governors l Last face-to-face meeting was held in February in NYC. l First Day -- Strategy Session (follow-up to Dec session) l PURPOSE STATEMENT l To enable and promote the collaborative application of technical knowledge to enhance economic and social well-being. l BIG AUDACIOUS GOAL / 10 YEAR GOAL l Be recognized as a preferred global provider of high-quality, market-relevant technology standards and services that promote their universal adoption. l 5 KEY FOCUS AREAS / 3-5 YEAR GOALS l Organizational Business Model l Nurturing Strategic Technologies l Process Efficiency (expedited and streamlined process) l Education l Global Participation and Perception l Second Day -- Business DRAFT

IEEE-SA Board of Governors l The two BoG ad hoc committees have continued to meet in conjunction with the BoG as well as between BoG meetings:  International Committee  Business Development Committee l Next BoG meeting is June 4-5 in Geneva, Switzerland

IEEE-SA Board of Governors l Nominations and Appointments Committee  Nominations for the BoG and the CAG are just starting. Ben Johnson is the chair.  Be thinking about people who should be nominated for Standards Board BoG Member-at-large SA President-Elect  Advise Don Wright if you or someone you know might be interested in serving.

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