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Re: MSC Study Group for Interval Arithmetic.

Baker,
The function of a study group is to sanction the first meetings of the group. The work of the study group is to gather the interested parties and to develop the PAR. This can take as little as a day or as long as the 6 month limit.
The next deadline could be the have the PAR ready for the Feb 10 2008 submission date to NesCom. That is probably to agressive as I still need the MSC to agree by vote on this PAR.
The next MSC meeting is 14 April in Sunnyvale, CA. This MSC meeting could approve the PAR for sponsor submission to the June NesCom meeting. This is probably the target the group should work for.
What I need is the champion for the group to interface with to keep this moving while the momentum is still high.
The study group can setup a lot of the structure and start the work to be completed by the working group. The working group can take 1 day to ~4 years(more than 7 in the 754 case) to finish the draft and start the balloting process. Once the working group is created (following acceptance of the PAR by the Standards Board) the working group will adopt its Policies and Procedures, to be approve by the MSC, elect its Chair, according to the P&P and create the draft. We would then create the balloting body and ballot the draft. 

My job is to guide you through this as smoothly as possible.

Please feel free to call me at 408-857-1273 to discuss this.

Bob

R. Baker Kearfott wrote:

Bob et al,
It is not entirely clear to me what action (if any) is appropriate by the set of interested parties from the Schloss Dagstuhl seminar, during the period of the study group. (I more or less understand the function of the committee to develop the standard, once the project authorization request is approved.) Please advise. (I can call, if appropriate.) 

Sincerely,

Baker

Bob Davis wrote:

To Interval Arithmetic interested parties:
I, as Chair of the MSC, authorize a Study Group under the MSC for the purpose of developing a IEEE Standard on Interval Arithmetic. The Study Group is the first step of the process.
The life span of the Study Group is limited to 6 months and exists for the purpose of developing the Project Authorization Request to be submitted through NesCom to the IEEE Standards Board.
Within this period the study group will develop the PAR for approval by the MSC for submission to NesCom.
Upon approval of the PAR the Working Group will authorized to develop the text for the draft.
I will meet with the proposed Chair of this group to go over the expectations and plan for completion of the project, hopefully is a shorter period that the 754r revision. 

The MSC meets on the 2nd Monday of each calendar quarter.
I really look forward to working with you on the development of this standard. 

Respectfully,

Bob Davis, Chair
Microprocessor Standards Committee

Dan Zuras IEEE wrote:

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:37:09 -0600
From: "R. Baker Kearfott" <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Dan Zuras <forbrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, boein@xxxxxxxxx, boisvert@xxxxxxxx, MFC@xxxxxxxxxx, bob@xxxxxxxx, bob.davis@xxxxxxx, roger.a.golliver@xxxxxxxxx, 754r@xxxxxxxxxxx, david.hough@xxxxxxx, wkahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jkidder@xxxxxxxxx, leonard.tsai@xxxxxx, leonard.tsai@xxxxxxxxx, "Corliss, George" <george.corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
 John Pryce <j.d.pryce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Dagstuhl discussion of IEEE WG 2.5 work


Dan et al,

We had extensive discussion at Schloss Dagstuhl seminar 08021
concerning Professor Kulisch's proposal with IFIP Working Group 2.5.
The result is a formal letter (formulated by John Pryce and
me as a summary of the discussion) and a list of signatures
in general support of the effort.  (The signature list is not
complete partially because it was taken in the last session
after some had already left and partially
because there were several present who felt the Kulisch proposal
should be accepted immediately, unaltered.)

I attach the formal letter and scanned list of signatures, both
in PDF form.

We are awaiting further direction from you.

Sincerely,

R. Baker Kearfott


    Baker,

    Wonderful!

    I will give Bob a call & see if we can get started on the
    paperwork.  There will be a number of details we will need
    to know.  Bob will know what they all are but I know we
    will need to know who to propose as initial chair & where
    the meetings are to be held.

    Neither is really important.  The initial chair is just to
    chair the first meeting at which you can elect your real
    chair.  (The chair must be a member of IEEE but anyone can
    be a member of the group.)  And, the location of the meetings
    is just to let everyone know where & how to attend.

    Those names that I recognise among the signatures suggest
    you have a good group to begin with.  They also suggest
    that the natural venue for meetings is in Europe.  If it
    is possible to set up the european equivalent of an 800
    number that one can call internationally without charge
    it might help those of us who would like to attend by
    phone.

    In particular, I would like to attend at least initially.
    I would like to explain the difficulties the 754 group
    had with IA & suggest some ways to deal with them in an
    IA standard.  There is also much you can teach me about
    how it all works.

    I look forward to working with you.

    Yours,

            Dan Zuras    Bob Davis
              chair          chair
            754/2008    IEEE-MSC


    P.S. - I called Bob &, under his authority as the chair
    of the Microprocessor Standards Committee, he hereby
    grants you status as a study group on "A Standard on
    Interval Arithmetic".  Please send him the name of the
    chair & he will be in touch to discuss the requirements
    & obligations.

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