Finals Agenda for the 20000110 Meeting

Meeting Minutes
Microprocessor Standards Committee
10 January 2000
Los Altos, CA

Chair: Don Wright
Vice Chair:Bob Davis
Secretary: Larry Stein
Treasurer: Dick Karpinski

Minutes:

1.0 Call to Order at 6:00 P.M. by the chair, Don Wright

The meeting was held at the Mandarin Classic Restaurant

2.0 Introductions and attendance

3.0 Approval of Agenda

Additions to New Business

Agenda approved without objection

4.0 Approval of Minutes

Previous minutes approved without objection

5.0 Dinner Speaker

Jef Raskin, VP of Human Interaction at Telocity, was the speaker. He provided some interesting background and insight into the history of HID devices such as the mouse, and windows oriented interface. We also had an interesting demonstration of magnetic monopoles. This led into the main discussion.

His main topic was a discussion on Hermaphroditic Connectors. These are connector/cable interfaces that have the properties of not having a plug and receptacle relationship. Either end of a cable can connect to any plug. In addition, there is no orientation to the connector. You cannot plug the connector in the wrong way or upside down. One downside to this type of interface is the number of signal wires required. For an ‘n’ signal interface you need 2n-1 wires.

Dick Karpinsky volunteered to head a study group on Hermaphroditic Connectors. Jef volunteered the chapter from his book, "The Humane Interface" , as an introduction to this work.

6.0 Officers Reports

    1. Chair Report
      Don reported that the IEEE is working to clean up the Administrative Removal list. There may be a requirement to ask for extensions to some of the working groups.
    2. Vice-chair Report
      Nothing to report
    3. Treasurer Report

      4. Dick Karpinski is the new treasurer. Thanks to Bob for all his past work.

      The current balance is $1499.41.

    4. Secretary Report
      Nothing to report

7.0 Recess

8.0 New Project Proposals

Bob Davis opened a discussion on Home Servers. After some discussion we determined that there probably wasn’t a MSC project here.

9.0 Liaison Reports

9.1 ISO/IEC JTC1 SC26/SC26 TAG
Nothing to report

9.2 IEEE Standards Board
No report

9.3 IEEE Registration Authority (RAC) (Dave James)

Dave informed us that Bluethooth will need lots of numbers. His suggestion is that all future work should use the 64 bit UI.

10.0 Old Business

10.1 Reaffirmation of IEEE Std 754

Bob Davis sent out an email asking for a chair for this committee. He did not receive any responses. Dave James made a motion to "To appoint Bob Davis as chair of IEEE 754R and that it be reopened for revision." Seconded by Bob Ferguson. Passed without objection. Dave James volunteered to be the editor.

10.2 PARs being Administratively Withdrawn:
        - P1151 "Modula II"
        - P1597.6 "SyncLink"

10.3 Bob Davis proposed the PAR for 1537 be withdrawn due to lack of interest. Agreed.

10.4 Martin Freeman asked for an extension for 1285. Agreed.

11.0 New Business

Discussed under New Project Proposals.

Nothing else.

12.0 Working Group Status Reports

12.1 P1284.3 – Larry Stein
There have been problems in editing the final approved draft to incorporate the BRC

comments. This is now cleared up and the package should be sent to the IEEE by

March.

12.2 P1284.4 – Larry Stein
This has completed balloting and was approved. The BRC has resolved all issues

and this package will go to the IEEE in February.

12.3 IEEE 1284R – Don Wright
The ballot body is being formed for this now.

12.4 IEEE 1394.1 Dick Sheel

The next meeting of 1394.1 will be held in Seattle.

13.0 Study Groups
Nothing to report.

14.0 For the Good of the Society
Nothing good this meeting.

15.0 Next Meeting

April 10, 2000, 6:00PM, at the Mandarin Classic Restaurant in Los Altos

Respectfully submitted,

Larry Stein