Standards Activity Board Recap of 2003

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Standards Activity BoardRecap of 2003

• James W. Moore
• Vice-President of Standards Activities, IEEE CS
• November 2003

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Three Initiatives for SAB

• Increase the relevance of consensus agreements to
  the remainder of the Computer Society.
• Broaden the international impact of Computer
  Society standards.
• Simplify standardization for small sponsors.

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Increase the relevance of consensus agreements

• Pending changes to CS Bylaws and Procedures
  clarify that SAB may provide a home to agreement
  processes aside from standards.
• SWEBOK evolution will use consensus processes in
  workshops and balloting.
• Information Assurance Standards Committee (IASC),
  Jack Cole, will use a workshop process.

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Broaden the international impact of Computer
Society standards

• IEEE CS SESC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 have agreed on
  procedures and a vision of outcomes for
  harmonizing their collections of software and
  systems engineering standards.
• SESC collection is also being harmonized with
  SWEBOK, CSDP, and training material.
• A goal now within our reach A single
  authoritative body of knowledge for software
  engineering represented in SWEBOK, CSDP, IEEE
  standards, international standards, curriculum,
  training materials, and publications (e.g.
  software engineering portal, software engineering
  book series, translations of SWEBOK).
• IEEE-SA is pursuing Category A liaison with JTC1,
  but has not involved the Computer Society.

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Simplify standardization for small sponsors

• Kathy Lands vitality surveys have identified
  areas of dissatisfaction.
• CS Bylaws and Procedures re SAB are being
  simplified.
• Robbie Robson has drafted a dramatically
  simplified PP for SAB.
• September SAB workshop identified areas where SAB
  might step aside from the path between
  standards sponsors and IEEE-SA.

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SAB Business as Usual

• 802 Appeals Panel Lowell Johnson (chair), Robby
  Robson, Jim Isaak.
• Awards (John Walz)
• Hans Karlsson Awards revitalized with first
  nomination since 1996.
• Accelerated awards process
• 20 Certificates of Appreciation
• 6 Outstanding Contribution Awards
• 10 awards in process