Final Agenda for the 20001009 Meeting

Meeting Minutes
Microprocessor Standards Committee
9 October 2000
Los Altos, CA

Chair: Don Wright
Vice Chair: Bob Davis
Secretary: Larry Stein (absent)
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

• Don Wright
• Martin Freeman
• Dave James
• Bob Davis
• Dick Karpinski
• Bob Ferguson
• Peter Johansson
• Dave Gustavson
• James Koser
• Larry Lamers
• Andreas Schloissnik

3.0 Approval of Agenda

Additions to Old Business (X.4) and New Business (XI.2, XI.3, XI.4 & XI.5)
Agenda approved as modified

4.0 Approval of Minutes

Previous minutes approved..

5.0 Dinner Speaker

6.0 Officers Reports

1. Chair Report
1. Don attended the Standards Board Meeting and reported on several items affecting the MSC
2. Don presented the 2000 MSC Chair's report
2. Vice-chair Report
   754 Revision effort is in progress.
   
3. Treasurer Report
   Recent receipt of IPF from several groups will need to be forwarded.
   
4. Secretary Report
   Absent
   

7.0 Recess and Payment Collection

8.0 New Project Proposals

1. A PAR for 1363.1 was approved without objection. (Std for PK Crypto based on hard laticce problems)
2. A PAR for 1363.2 was approved without objection. (Std for Password-based PK Crypto techniques)

9.0 Liaison Reports

• See Chair report

• Dave Gustavson reported that the RAC was still having problems with people improperly using OUIs.

9.2 ISO/IEC JTC1 SC26/SC26 TAG

• An effort is underway to create an SC25 TAG for internationalizing MSC projects.  A motion approving this effort with Don Wright as the initial chair and with Peter Johansson and Bob Davis as members was made by Bob Davis and seconded.  The motion passed without objection.

10.0 Old Business

1. RAC Appointment Process
• Motion was made by Dave Gustavson to elect the MSC RAC representatives on 2 year cycles (on odd years) at the same election where MSC officers are elected.  Motion was seconded.
• An amendment to previous motion was made by Peter Johansson to alternate the election of the RAC repesentative to that one represenative was elected each year.  Motion was seconed.  Motion was defeated.
• Original motion made by Dave Gustavson was passed unanamously.
• Motion was made by Bob Davis to retain the current RAC representatives through 2001.   Motion was seconded and passed with 2 no votes (Peter Johansson is noted as a no voter at his request.)
2. Electronic Voting by the MSC
• Don reviewed the existing rules in the SAB P&P on electronic balloting. Balloting can be done electronically but will require the voting of 75% of all the eligible MSC voters.
3. Final Review of PARs and Standards to withdraw or extend
• The previously published list of expiring PARs and Stds was reviewed or disposition.
4. Review of SpaceWire (P1355.2) Scope and Purpose edits
• The results of editing the P1355.2 PAR based on the input at the previous MSC meeting were reviewed and approved.

11.0 New Business

1. P1596.9 Extension was approved
2. P1386 and P1386.1 Extension was approved
3. P1285 Extension was approved
4. 10 Gigabyte Interface:  Dave James presented a PAR proposal and a draft of a 10 Gb/s Parallel Link.  It was approved without objection
5. Andreas Schloissnik probed the MSC on support an effort to define a IEEE 488 like interface over 1394.  The group felt it could support that unless the 488 group (if it still existed) claimed ownership.

12.0 Working Group Status Reports

• Only published reports

13.0 Study Groups

• Nothing to report.
  

14.0 For the Good of the Society

• No discussion
  

15.0 Next Meeting

• January 8, 2001, 6:00PM, at the Mandarin Classic Restaurant in Los Altos
• Motion to adjourn by Bob Davis was seconded. Meeting adjourned at approximately 9:10 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Don Wright, chair and acting secretary