IEEE-SA Liaison Report SAB Meeting June 2006 Don Wright Director of Standards, Lexmark International Past Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board Chair, IEEE SASB Patent Committee

2006 SASB Leadership 2006 Leadership: l ChairSteve Mills (CS) l Vice ChairRichard Hulett l NesComRon Petersen l RevComMalcolm Thaden l PatComDon Wright (CS) l ProComRichard Hulett l AudComDaleep Mohla l SCC LiaisonHoward Wolfman 2006 Meeting Schedule: l March 27 – 30Piscataway, NJ l June 6 – 8Piscataway, NJ l September 12 – 15Piscataway, NJ (change) l December 4 – 6Boca Raton, Florida

2006 SASB Membership  Reappointments: Mark Bowman Dennis Brophy (CS) Joanna Guenin (CS) Mark Halpin Bill Hopf Rich Hulett David Law (CS) Steve Mills (CS) Daleep Mohla Ted Olsen Glenn Parsons (CS) Ron Petersen Malcolm Thaden Rick Townsend Howard Wolfman Don Wright (CS)  New Members: Bill Goldbach Arnie Greenspan Bob Grow (CS) Ken Hanus Tom Prevost Greg Ratta Robby Robson (CS) Anne-Marie Sahazizian Virginia Sulzberger (TAB Rep)

2006 SASB Summary (to date) l RevCom has recommended approval of l 12 projects as new standards l 17 revisions of standards l 31 reaffirmations of existing standards l NesCom has recommended approval of l 29 new PARs l 20 modified PARs l 17 revision PARs l 14 PAR extensions l 9 Withdrawals

2006 SASB Summary (cont.) l NesCom will be adding a PAR type with the 2007 PAR form to specifically allow the adoption of non-IEEE standards. It will separate the SCOPE and PURPOSE of the document being adopted from the SCOPE and PURPOSE of the adoption to make it clear during sponsor ballot that nothing can be changed in the document being adopted. l PatCom remains focused on changes to the SASB Bylaws and Operations Manual to improve the process and reduce loop holes. See for more information. For 2006, PatCom’s membership was expanded to 6 voting members. As per a February 2006 BoG approved change, all LOAs are now irrevocable once accepted. New PatCom slide set is now available at: l ProCom is dealing with a number of issues largely through ad hocs: Dominance, Stabilized Standards, Electronic Voting, etc. l AudCom is publishing the accepted sponsor P&Ps on their website and will maintain these as the official versions of those sponsor’s P&Ps. The SASB voted in June 2006 to require that the OFFICIAL versions be those on the SASB AudCom site.

Activities at last week’s SASB Mtg l PatCom met all day on June 5 th l Continuing to address patent policy issues l ~65 people in attendance l ProCom and AudCom on 6 th l ProCom l Stabilized Standards l Dominance in working groups (positive & negative) l Financial Reporting (L50S form) l Audcom l WG Basic Operating Procedures l Only three societies lack accepted P&Ps (non-responsive) l NesCom and RevCom on 7 th l SASB meeting on 8 th ( l IEEE Conflict of Interest Policy being adapted for SA l Normal committee reports l Ad Hoc on appeals l Ad Hoc on electronic voting l 5 hour executive session to deal with legal matter. l Meeting lasted until 6PM

Activities at last week’s SASB Mtg l SASB meeting on 8 th l Approved the following CS PARs l P System and Software Engineering - System and Software Assurance (new) l P Standard for Test Methods for the Characterization of Organic Transistors and Materials (PAR for revision of std.) l Approved the following CS Standards l P802.1AE/D5.1 (C/LM) Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Media Access Control (MAC) Security l P802.3an/D4.0 (C/LM) Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific Requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications - Amendment: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation, Type 10GBASE-T l P /Cor1/D2.0 (C/LM) IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific Requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications - Corrigendum 1 l P1620.1/D8 (C/MM) Standard for Test Methods for the Characterization of Organic Transistor-Based Ring Oscillators l P /D6 (C/LM) Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific Requirements - Part 15.4: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) l Note: P1394C was pulled from the RevCom agenda by the WG Chair.

IEEE-SA Board of Governors l 2006 Membership  Don Heirman, President  George Arnold, President-elect  Steve Mills, SASB Chair  Don Wright, SASB Past Chair  Dan Benigni*, IEEE FinCom Rep  Judith Gorman*, Secretary  Chuck Adams, CAG Chair  Jean Baronas  Alex Gelman  Guido Guertler  Bruce McClung  Gerald Peterson  Mary Saunders  Carl Stevenson  Phil Wennblom * Non-Voting

IEEE-SA Board of Governors l Last face-to-face meeting was held Feb , 2006, next face-to-face will be June 27-29, 2006 l Agenda items for this upcoming meeting are expected to include: l Integrating the SA Strategic Plan with the IEEE Strategic Plan l Proposal to amend the IEEE Bylaws to allow the SA to nominate IEEE Fellows l Various committee & liaison reports

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