[sv-ec] Meeting on Monday August 28 2006, Agenda, new access passcode number

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Next sv-ec meeting is scheduled for
Monday  August 28th, 2006. 
SV-EC Errata Committee Meeting
Date: Monday, August 28th, 2006
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm PST 

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Agenda: 
1. Review IEEE patent policy
  http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt
  
2. Review Meeting minutes, of and August 14th 2006 
 
http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes/SV-EC_Meeting_August_14_2006_Minutes.tx
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3. Action items review
Action items: August 14th, 2006
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  AI: 978 Neil - Copy info on with-expression to sorting section (see
locator methods)
        - Update find, find_index, unique, unique_index -- update all 4
of these
	  in the same way, as far as the ordering of the results are
concerned.
          "The ordering of returned elements is unrelated to the
ordering of 
           the original array."
        - change - "syntax error" to "Shall be illegal" 
        - change Gord's example to not require casting and then use a
cast in 
	  last example instead.  Mention "overflow" in the text
describing the 
	  need for the cast.

  AI: 1038 Neil - Close mantis item 1038. Add a bugnote explaining why.
  AI: 1330 Dave - will upload a new proposal.

From Previous meetings:
 AI: 1437 Dave - update 1437, also include a proposal
 AI: 890 Cliff and all - send email on the reflector to get the
discussion started
 AI: 1330 Gord - new language proposal to handle the port connection
issues.
 AI: 1330 Dave - examples via email on the issue with ports in
interfaces

4. Name Resolution sub-group update
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   Gord is owner from sv-bc.


5. Review Action item list. [see below]
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 978  5.15 array methods, minor errata  (Shalom/Neil) [see 1270]
1490  Array ordering methods on associative arrays  (Dave)  

   possible actions:
   COMBINE 1490 with 978
   CLOSE   1490 Array ordering methods on associative arrays  (Dave)

1437  04-26-06  Prototype syntax for array locator methods in 5.15.1 is
not legal(Dave)
			(similar to 0082)
1517  07-03-06  Array reduction methods used in constraints  (Dave) 
1330  Missing BNF for parameterized virtual interfaces (Dave) 
      [1324 is duplicate -- can be closed if above approved] 
 511  related to section 12.25     (Francoise)  
      CAN BE CLOSED.

 890   clarifications in program and clocking blocks (Doug)
1371  03-09-06 Semantic of program block $exit   (DaveR) --
Clarification
1459  05-09-06 Mailbox 'new' method should never return null  (Dave) 
1480  05-19-06  method_call_root BNF should use primary, not expression
(Brad)
1515  06-25-06  Localparams should be allowed in classes (BNF) (Brad)
1545  07-20-06  13.12.1: $urandom example error  [Shalom]
1552  08-01-06  Wording of mailbox description - section 14.3 [Neil,
Steven]

6. Next meeting: 
   Proposal: September 11, 2006