Chairs Report

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Chairs Report to the
IEEE-SA Standards Board
22 March 2007 Piscataway, NJ
Chair Steve Mills steve.mills_at_hp.com Secretary
Judy Gorman j.gorman_at_ieee.org Administrator Rona
Gertz r.gertz_at_ieee.org
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2006 SASB Summary

• Last SASB meeting series was held on 5-6 December
  2006
• Year to date (as of December meeting)
• RevCom recommended approval of
• 36 projects as new standards
• 40 revisions of standards
• 56 reaffirmations of existing standards
• NesCom recommended approval of
• 78 new PARs
• 41 modified PARs
• 45 revision PARs
• 68 PAR extensions
• 31 Withdrawals
• 17 Deferred
• PatCom has completed its development of training
  materials for the IP Policy.
• ProCom completed its update of the anti-trust
  policy

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Process Transparency

• Actions taken to address allegations of process
  abuse
• Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC)
• IEEE 802 - 802.20

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Process Transparency

• Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC)
• Allegations of dominance in DASC steering
  committee and working groups
• DASC chair attended the December SASB meeting to
  discuss the issue
• A plan to address the issues was reviewed
• Regular reports will be reviewed by the SASB
  throughout the year

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Process Transparency

• IEEE 802 - 802.20
• Work of the 802.20 working group was suspended in
  June 07
• Officers were removed
• Working Group ballot group was disbanded
• Arnie Greenspan appointed as interim 802.20 chair
• New declaration of affiliations were requested of
  all working group members
• Existing documents remain available for working
  group consideration

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IEEE 802.20IEEE 802 EC Involvement

• An 802 EC Oversight Committee has been created
  and will work with the SASB Oversight Committee
• Requests for Declarations of Affiliation were
  issued to members of IEEE 802.20
• The IEEE 802 EC performed interviews of several
  IEEE 802.20 members during the meeting week
• The IEEE 802 OC is considering what, if any,
  further actions should be taken

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IEEE 802.20Oversight

• SASB Oversight Committee
• Steve Mills
• Don Wright
• Rich Hulett
• Bill Goldbach
• Bruce McClung
• IEEE 802 EC Oversight Committee
• Geoff Thompson
• Mike Takefman
• Arnie Greenspan

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• Declarations of Affiliation
• The SASB OC understands that the EC OC conducted
  interviews of several individuals at the 802.20
  meetings held in Dallas during the week of 13
  November and is considering taking additional
  steps including
• Removing the voting rights of some 802.20 members
  
• Continuing its investigation of some of those
  individuals interviewed
• Interviewing additional individuals
• The SASB OC encourages and will support an EC OC
  decision to remove voting rights as appropriate
  in cases of materially inaccurate or misleading
  declarations of affiliation.  Further, the SASB
  OC directs the EC OC to provide the names and
  criteria used in making any such decisions and
  obtain approval of the SASB OC prior to the
  communication of those decisions.  The SASB OC
  also recommends caution in any public statements
  that are made about the individuals involved. 
  Any such statements must be approved by counsel
  prior to release.

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IEEE 802.20November 06 Meeting

• Two strong camps remain
• The participants are still not listening to one
  another they remain very entrenched in their
  positions
• Arnie is working with the 802 OC to develop a
  strategy for helping the working group to
  progress its work

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IEEE 802.20January 07 Meeting

• No quorum at this meeting
• The participants were more cooperative some
  remain very entrenched in their positions
• All documents were reviewed
• The existing technical draft document serve as
  the basis for moving forward with new technical
  submittals (partial or whole) due by the March
  07 plenary meeting

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IEEE 802.20March 07 Meeting

• The meeting was well managed and progressed
  efficiently
• All recommendations from the January interim
  meeting were approved
• Three technology proposals were presented at this
  meeting (Samsung, Motorola, LGE, Qualcomm)
• Portions of each of these proposals were
  integrated into the base draft document
• The plan is to do a review and comment phase as a
  next step

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IEEE 802.20Additional Steps

• Further steps are being considered including
• Declaring voting blocks
• Imposing penalties for false declarations of
  affiliation
• Action, if any, on the directive of the appeals
  panel (Mollenauer et al) will be postponed until
  at least July to allow the completion of the
  current technology submittal process

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Process TransparencyCorporate Meeting3 August
2006

• A meeting of standards leaders from several key
  companies was held at the Motorola facility in
  Schaumburg, IL
• All participants agreed that the corporate
  involvement in the individual model of standards
  development within the IEEE was causing problems
• There were several recommendations on possible
  approaches to addressing this problem
• A follow-up meeting is being planned for late
  January 2007

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Process TransparencyFollow-up Corporate
Meeting30 January 2007

• A follow-up meeting of standards leaders from
  several key companies was held at the Qualcomm
  facility in Washington, D.C.
• Reviewed and discussed the transparency/dominance
  issues that were addressed in 2006
• Meeting theme What can the IEEE do to avoid
  situations of dominance?
• Several ideas were discussed including training
  of chairs and more disciplined project
  management.
• No follow-up meeting was scheduled

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Appeals

• An appeal of an 802 Executive Committee appeal
  panels ruling requiring 802.20 to reaffirm the
  decision to shorten the technology submittal
  period to 30 days was heard on Tuesday, 5
  December 2006
• The appeal panel found in favor of the appellee
  (upheld the 802 Executive Committee appeal
  panels decision)

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Appeals

• The four appeals challenging the September
  Standards Boards actions in regard to 802.20 were
  heard by the BoG appeal panel on 28 February 2007
• The appeal panel report is due by 28 March 2007

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Jamieson Terman Orientation

• Represented the Standards Board at the 9 January
  2007 IEEE president and president-elect standards
  orientation hosted by NIST

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IPR Seminars and Corporate Visitsin China

• Several members of the Standards Association
  participated in a China visit in March. The
  participants were
• Chuck Adams
• Terry Decourcelle
• Ning Hua
• Steve Mills
• Phil Wennblom
• Don Wright
• The group delivered two training seminars
  Shenzhen and Beijing

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Shenzhen Seminar
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Beijing Seminar
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IPR Seminars and Corporate Visitsin China

• The group met with representatives from the
  following corporations
• Huawei
• ZTE
• China Mobile
• TCL
• Haier
• We also met with CESI and the AVS Group (a
  committee under CESI)

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Visit to ZTE
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IPR Seminars and Corporate Visitsin China

• The group delivered two training seminars
  Shenzhen and Beijing
• The seminars were well received

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Corporate Advisory GroupTunisia Seminar

• The CAG will be holding its meeting in Tunis in
  May
• During this visit the CAG will hold a
  seminarGlobal Standards Developing
  Economies Broadband Access and
  Infrastructure
• Several corporations in Europe will be visited
  during this trip

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Joint ITU-T/IEEE Seminar

• Glenn Parsons will give us an update

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