1. IEEE-SA Liaison Report
SAB Meeting
March 2006
Don Wright
Director of Standards, Lexmark International
Past Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board

2. 2006 SASB Leadership 2006 Leadership: 2006 Meeting Schedule:
Chair Steve Mills (CS)
Vice Chair (To be Elected)
NesCom Ron Petersen
RevCom Malcolm Thaden
PatCom Don Wright (CS)
ProCom Richard Hulett
AudCom Daleep Mohla
SCC Liaison Howard Wolfman
2006 Meeting Schedule:
March 27 – 30 Piscataway, NJ
June 6 – 8 Piscataway, NJ
September 14 – 16 Philadelphia with PCIC
December 4 – 6 Florida

3. 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 Walter Weigel

4. 2005 SASB Summary RevCom recommended approval of
34 projects as new standards
42 revisions of standards
36 reaffirmations of existing standards
NesCom recommended approval of
81 new PARs
25 modified PARs
57 revision PARs
61 PAR extensions. (Includes conditional approvals)
48 Withdrawals

5. 2005 SASB Summary (cont.)
PatCom explored a number of proposed changes to the procedures, bylaws, and LOA. PatCom’s membership was expanded to a maximum of 6 and members of the BoG are now eligible (effective 1 Jan 2006). New PatCom slide set is now available at:
ProCom launched two ad hocs to explore interpretations and to examine the definition of interest categories. A number of other procedural changes were approved and forward to the SASB include one to allow the SASB chair to serve up to three 1 year terms.
AudCom is publishing the accepted sposor P&Ps on their website and maintain these as the official versions of those sponsor’s P&Ps.
A two year PAR extension for P1599 was approved at the December 2005 SASB Meeting.

6. 2006 SASB Chair’s Priorities
A year of action…
Complete the investigation of current IP questions and deliver recommendations to the BoG
Identify and formalize a model for the transparent involvement of “entities” in individual standards development activities
Promote and strengthen the image of the IEEE-SA
As a competent and well managed operation
As a developer of globally relevant standards

7. Activities at Upcoming SASB Mtg
March 27-30
PatCom meeting all day on 27th
Continue to address patent policy issues
ProCom and AudCom meetings on 28th
Working Group Model Operating Procedures
Interest Category Definitions
NesCom and RevCom meetings on 29th
SASB meeting on 30th

8. IEEE-SA Board of Governors
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

9. IEEE-SA Board of Governors
Last face-to-face meeting was held Feb , 2006
Approved cooperation with various patent offices by providing them with access to early drafts of documents for purposed of investigating prior art.
SA is moving forward on opening an office in China in cooperation with the Computer Society and IEEE leadership.
At the last IEEE BoD meeting, Regions were given the ability to recommend IEEE Fellows. The SA plans to use this opening to gain the same ability for IEEE members working in standards.
SA BoG approved a joint committee with EAB to develop standards education for universities.
SA BoG approved a change to the SA Operations Manual requiring the use of the L50-S financial reporting form financials from WGs and Sponsors will have to be submitted in early Groups have no checking accounts, receipts or disbursements will only have to sign the form indicating such. The form is available at:
SA BoG is working with IEEE-USA on the matter of proposed US legislation entitled “Standards Development Organization Advancement Act of 2006.”

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