[sv-ec] Meeting Minutes SV-EC December 19th, 2005

Here is minutes of our Dec 19th 2005 meeting. I will place the text
on the sv-ec website as well. 
This was a short meeting since we did not have access to the database 
(eda.org was down).
Note that it was decided to hold the next conf.call/meeting
on January 9th,2006. I will send out a meeting notice as well.

Have a safe and happy holidays, see you all in 2006!
- Mehdi

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SV-EC Committee Meeting
Monday December 19th 2005, 11:00am - 1:00pm PST
[Minutes distributed for approval at next (sv-ec) committee meeting]


(1 ) Day 
(9 )
(1 ) Month 
(2 ) 
(0 ) Year 
(5 )
--------- Attendees ---------- 
(A ) Arturo Salz
(- ) Brad Pierce
(- ) Cliff Cummings
(A ) Dave Rich 
(A ) Francoise Martinolle
(- ) Karen Pieper
(A ) Mehdi Mohtashemi 
(A ) Neil Korpusik 
(A ) Ray Ryan 
(- ) Steven Sharp
(- ) Surrendra Dudani
(- ) Gordon Vreugdenhil
(- ) Phil Moorby
(- ) Stu Sutherland
(- ) Dennis Brophy 
(- ) Don Mills
(- ) Tom Fitzpatrick
(A ) Doug Warmke
(A ) Chris Spear
 
 **  Minutes taken by Mehdi Mohtashemi 

Agenda:

1. IEEE patent policy
    ref:   http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt 
      Move:  Neil		 
    Second:  Arturo	
    Abstain:
    Opposed: 

2. Review of previous Meeting minutes
   We are starting new series of sessions.

2. SV-EC charter per Karen's email after p1800 meeting:

    Discussed Karen Pieper's guidance to errata committees (p1800).
    Plan: Discuss errata, avoid enhancements, align with p1800 guidance.

    Neil: next p1800 meeting is scheduled for Jan 19th.


3. Proposed Voting rights/Operating Guidelines.
       http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/SV_OperGuidelines.html  (for reference)
   Mehdi: I need to remove the section on 'company vote' according to
	guidance from Karen/p1800.
   Neil: Company vote was under accelera, but under ieee not company
vote 
   Dave: none of it binding, working group p1800 decides
   Neil: now that ieee then the company based votes is not needed.


    Move: Neil      remove portion of guideline that refers to company
based votes.
    Second: Dave
    Abstain: Arturo
    opposed:

   AI: remove and update the guideline.
   
4. Meeting frequency.
   Suggested frequency: once a month, to be discussed during December
meeting.
   Mehdi: Possible dates are Jan 30 2006, Feb. 27, 2006, march 27, 2006
	April 24, 2006 and May 22, 2006 before DAC 2006
   Dave: We may need to do biweekly meetings.

5. Issue database, scope of work, and resolution process proposal
     The database is P1800 SV-EC items at  http://www.eda.org/svdb
   [We were having trouble accessing the database during the
conf.call/meeting]
  
   Dave: data base should be cleaned up, dozen or so items that needs to
	be cleaned up.
  
   Dave: email from Brad 
	344, 644, 683, 712, 722, 725 
   Neil: 734, is a cc issue more than sv-ec. most of it cc,	
   Neil: several emails that did not get into the database.
  	dozen issue, 

   Dave: how the next version will be released? two separate ways, one
	is typos, one is the issues that require PAR.
   	balloting process we may be able to do it.
	
   Neil: it could be a separate document.
   Mehdi: ask Karen about it. 
          
   Dave: 80-100 sv-ec items, 
   Arturo: criteria, how to prioritize,
   Neil: also discuss the process of closing.
   Dave: suggestion is to look at the following priority
	Stu-as assigned and acknowledged 
	sv-ec but not closed
	issues from ballot, 
      high-priority issues:	
	clocking block
	AI: asking the items..
	coverage related clarifications issues
	randomization issues


  AI (EVERYONE): to review database and send out the items for closure
	General cleanup of sv-ec issues.
  AI (Neil) : to review the emails and comment which one needs to go
	to the database.
   NOTE: all entries to be discussed should be properly entered
 	in the svdb and should have proposals for review.


6. Upcoming P1800 meeting, updates.
   Proposal made for p1800 face-to-face meeting in January. set for
   January 19th.


7) Next meetings schedule: 
    NOTE:   Monday January 9th, 2006 at 11:00am-- 1:00pm
       

meeting ended at 11:50pm [Database was inaccessible]