1. Paul Eastman Chair, SAB Special Projects 1 February 2017
SAB Status Report
Paul Eastman
Chair, SAB Special Projects 1 February 2017

2. Special Projects Activity–WGs
P Standard for Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products (Rev.)
P Standard for Environmental Assessment of Servers
P Standard for Environmental Assessment of Complex Set Top Boxes (PAR pending)
P Advanced Audio Coding
P D Model Creation Using Unprocessed 3D Medical Data

3. IEEE 1680.4 IEEE and NSF Joint Task Group on Environmental Standards for Servers (JTG-ESS)
Is completing their joint activity:
The Joint Development Agreement between IEEE and NSF was signed on January 28, 2016, officially launching the JTG-ESS.
The IEEE portion of the JTG-ESS ballot is in its third recirculation and is expected to complete its work very soon.

4. IEEE 1680.4 IEEE and NSF JTG-ESS
The JTG is comprised of voting members from IEEE WG and NSF 426 Joint Committee
4 stakeholder categories:
Manufacturers (21)
Other industry (suppliers, recyclers, retailers and other types of businesses commercially engaged with the product) (11)
Public health & safety/regulatory (21)
User/consumer (11)
Each stakeholder category has 25% of the allowed votes

5. IEEE 1680.4 IEEE and NSF JTG-ESS Progress
Two sets of criteria are in scope for JTG-ESS:
Overlapping – topics included in both NSF 426 and IEEE draft standards (must be addressed first)
Priority – 9 criteria selected by IEEE members for review
All other NSF 426 criteria will be included in the joint draft sent for ballot.
All Overlapping Criteria have been addressed (vote underway/approved)
Guidance has been provided and small groups set up for all of the Priority Criteria
IEEE re-balloting underway

6. IEEE 1680.4 IEEE and NSF Joint TG Timeline
Key remaining milestones:
May – July, 2016
Complete work on draft standard prior to ballot
JTG conference calls every other week
July 29th:
- JTG completes work on draft going to ballot (“pencils down”)
- IEEE WG approves draft to move forward to sponsor ballot
Early August 2016
SAB approval to move forward to sponsor ballot – August 12th
Draft standard moves to first ballot within each SDO (assumes IEEE has formed balloting group prior to July 20th) Completed
By Oct. 15th 2016
Balloting complete (including a public comment period) Completed
Oct. 15th – Jan. 15th 2017
JTG works on resolution of first ballot comments Completed
By Jan. 15th 2017
Draft standard move to second ballot (recirculation) In process
By March 1st 2017
Balloting complete – assumes successful ballot
By June 1st 2017
Approval of standard by both organizations
By Sept. 1st 2017*
Joint publication of standard

7. P1680.1 - Environmental Assessment of PCs, Tablets, and Monitors
Criteria Development completed for:
Energy Conservation and Material Selection
Criteria Development underway for:
End of Life Management, Packaging, Environmentally sensitive materials, Design for EOL, Product Longevity, LCA, and Corporate Performance
Face to face meetings (2016): Feb 2016, May 2016, Nov 2016
Full working draft: April 2017 (forecast)
Approval of WD for Sponsor Ballot: expected 2Q17
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

8. Working Group (WG) Status
IEEE P Officers (stable since April 2015)
Chair: Walter Jager (funded by ITI. GEC dropped funding at the end of 2016)
Secretary: Casandra Robinson (NIST)
Vice-Chair: Alexandra Degher (HP)
January 19 Roster: 74 participants
52 voting members
28 observers
4 IEEE staff

9. Recent Progress WG Progress since June 2016 Face to face meetings
November 15-17, 2016 in Austin, TX
Strict commenting process implemented to drive closure on criteria development
Deadline passed for proposing new criteria
Balance
Emphasis provided to WG/SG members to consider requirements of ALL stakeholder groups (regardless of group balance)

10. Challenges and Actions
Accelerating SGs to achieve closure on criteria and quality
New process with editor for each criterion and written comments is forcing closure for most criteria
Some SGs are lagging
Alternate measures being considered to get them on track.
A large number of potential criteria have been proposed
50% more criteria than standard
will take significant effort to close development
Prioritization of criteria is underway
Potential imbalance across criteria categories
Stakeholder balance and dominance
Still a challenge to get WG/SG members to consider expectations of all stakeholders.
Manufacturer representatives outnumber govt and NGO participants in most SGs
Balance during sponsor ballot will take significant effort
Accelerating SGs to achieve closure on criteria and quality
New process being implemented to ensure that each criterion has an editor
Parallel criteria development within each SG
Consistent capturing of environmental benefit of criteria proposals
helps drive closure on technical requirements
More use of offline commenting
Written comments help avoid circular discussions and drive closure on technical requirements and wording
WG driving closure on criteria that have strong opinions from WG members
Reduce amount of editorial work being done at WG for each criterion
SGs to perform round of editorial commenting on each criterion before presenting for vote at WG
New SG process to drive closure of editorial changes before criteria are presented at WG
Agreement on CSR criteria to be included within scope of standard
SG chair is needed for 4.3 Design for End of Life & 4.4 Product Longevity

11. IEEE 1680.1 – Estimated Timeline to Completion (update)
3Q2015
Phase 1 SGs complete criteria development (Energy, material selection, EOL, and packaging)
1Q2016
Phase 2 SGs launched for remaining criteria categories
2Q2017
SGs complete criteria development
Editorial review
3Q2017
Compile and edit draft standard
WG approval to sponsor ballot
4Q2017-
1Q2018
Sponsor ballot
Ballot Resolution
IEEE Publication Process

12. P Complex Set Top Boxes
The Working Group has bee holding monthly meeting via teleconference (using WebEx) since June 2015.
1.1 Project Number: P1680.6
1.2 Type of Document: Standard
1.3 Life Cycle: Full Use
2.1 Title: Standard for Environmental Assessment of Complex Set Top Boxes
Includes devices with more than simple channel selection
WG Chair is David Daniels has been replaced by Bill Skeates of Sky TV
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

13. P Complex Set Top Boxes
WG Chair is Bill Skeates of Sky TV Major items of discussion are, inclusion of conflict minerals, Manufacturer versus Service Provider definitions and what responsibility which has in declaring compliance, and how the verification process might work. The current plan would see a final draft complete by the September 2017 call.
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

14. P Complex Set Top Boxes
These meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every month and are attended by an average of 18 people, with 15 current voting members coming from various industry players including Arris, SmarDTV, Sky, GEC, Intel, Samsung, CEA and most recently Apple have joined the working group. In addition, the calls are regularly attended by The European Commission.
A log of all comments and open items is being maintained, and this currently shows 27 outstanding items for resolution.
Next meeting will be February 9, 9: :00 ET
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

15. New Efforts for P and P1680.3
There is an effort to amend IEEE Standard for Environmental Assessment of Imaging Equipment and IEEE Standard for Environmental Assessment of Televisions.  Our first meeting will be on February 28th.
The PARs are being developed to amend the standards includes the revision of the following criteria:
Required - End-of-life processing requirements ( and )
Optional - Manufacturer recyclers or reuses toner material collected through its cartridge and container take-back program ( only)
Optional - Manufacturer recyclers or reuses plastics collected through its cartridge and container take-back program ( only)
This criterion as written in and appears to be a barrier for adoption of the standard beyond North America.
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

16. P1857 Purpose and Usage
The P1857 family can be used for video and audio compression in any possible application systems where bandwidth and/or storage cost are sensitive, like internet video, broadcasting TV, surveillance video, etc..
Currently the first case of P1857 video has developed a complete industry chain from chips, encoders to end products. The main international chip manufactures including Broadcom, Mstar, Realtek, MTK, Huawei HiSilicon and others, encoder manufacturers including Sumavision, GMT, and Kuvision from China, and end product manufacturers including Sony, Samsung, Skyworth, Hisense and others have adopted P1857 video echnology in their products.
P1857 video is adopted by China Central Television for their DTMB transmission. Wireless coverage in more than 15 provinces of China has been achieved, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Guizhou, Fujian, Zhejiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and others, while more cities and provinces will be covered this year.
Other applications like internet video and surveillance video are also scheduled.
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

17. P1857 Published Standards
, Standard for Advanced Audio and Video Coding-video Standard was published on June 04, 2013.
1857a-2014, Amendment 1 of IEEE Std Standard was published on April 04, 2014.
, Standard for Advanced Audio Coding Standard was published on Nov.12, 2013.
, Standard for System of Advanced Audio and Video Coding Standard was published on Jan. 20, 2014.
, Standard for Advanced Mobile speech and Audio was published on March 31, 2016.
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

18. P1857 Working Groups
P1857.4, Standard for 2nd Generation IEEE 1857 Video Coding
The PAR was approved on Dec 11, 2013.
PAR Expiration Date: 31-Dec-2017
The draft was completed in middle of 2015, but later received new advanced technical proposals to further improve technical performance. Currently being finalized.
P1857.6, Standard for Digital Media Content Description
The PAR approval date: 11-Dec-2013
The visual object description part is being completed, work on audio object description will continue.
P1857.7, Standard for Adaptive Streaming
The PAR approval date: 10-Dec-2014
PAR Expiration Date: 31-Dec-2018
The draft is completed, cross check and test works are being conducted.
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

19. P1857 Working Groups P1857.8, Standard for 2nd Generation Audio Coding
The PAR was approved on 05-Dec
PAR Expiration Date: 31-Dec-2019
P1857.9, Standard for Immersive Visual Content Coding
The PAR was approved on 05-Dec-2015
PAR Expiration Date: 31-Dec-2019
The first working group meeting was held in Beijing on January 31, At this conference, the architecture of the standard was discussed, then the subgroup has called for technical proposals.
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

20. P3333 Family Publication: 23-Mar-2015
P consists of a family of 1 Standard and 3 approved PARs
Root: P Recommended Practice for Three- Dimensional (3D) Medical Modelling
Publication: 23-Mar-2015
P Standard for 3D Medical Visualization
P Standard for 3D Medical Data Management
P Standard for 3D Medical Simulation
P Standard for 3D Medical Printing
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

21. Future of P3333
Primary responsibility for all P3333 work has been transferred to the Electronics in Medicine and Biology (EMBS). The CS/SAB continues to be a co-sponsor.
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22. P3333 Family P3333.2.2 Standard for 3D Medical Visualization
1st Sponsor Ballot Request: Jan-2017
Recirculation (if necessary): Mar-2017
Submission to RevCom : Sept-2017
IEEE-SASB Approval : Q2-2016
P Standard for 3D Medical Data Management
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016

23. P3333 Family P3333.2.4 Standard for 3D Medical Simulation New PAR
1st Sponsor Ballot Request: Jan-2017
Recirculation (if necessary): Mar-2017
Submission to RevCom : Sept-2017
IEEE-SASB Approval : Q2-2016
New PAR
P Standard for 3D Medical Printing
PAR Approved 03-Sept-2015
Early draft development
Presentation to CS/SAB 8 June 2016