Final Agenda for the 20011008 Meeting

Meeting Minutes
Microprocessor Standards Committee
8 October 2001
Los Altos, CA

The Microprocessor Standards Committee meeting was held on 8 October 2001 at the Mandarin Classic Restaurant in Los Altos California. Present at the
meeting were:

• Don Wright
• Bob Davis
• Dick Karpinski
• Martin Freeman
• Dave Gustavson
• Bob Ferguson

The meeting was called to order by the Chair, Don Wright at 6:20PM.  The agenda was approved with modifications.

The minutes of the April 2001 MSC meeting were reviewed and approved without modification.

The minutes of the July 2001 MSC meeting were reviewed and approved without modification.

Chair's report:

The Chair reported on actions taken since the last MSC meeting including NESCOM actions:

896.5 (.5a) -- Recommended Administrative Withdrawal at year end 2001
1101.10 -- Reaffirmation started
1596.4 -- Recommended Administrative Withdrawal at year end 2001
1296 -- Recommended Administrative Withdrawal at year end 2001
1301.4 -- Reaffirmation started
1596.3 -- Recommended Administrative Withdrawal at year end 2001
1101.2 -- Submitted to REVCOM for consideration in December
1178 -- Reaffirmation started
1212R -- REVCOM submission in progress
1212.1 -- Submitted to REVCOM for consideration in December
P1363a -- NESCOM extended until December 2002
P1284.2 -- Ballot Body forming
P1394b -- Extension PAR submitted for December REVCOM meeting

Vice Chair's report:

The Vice Chair reported that there has been some renewed interest in P2100 or a P2100 deriviative by the 3GIO group.

Treasurer's report:

Bob Davis, acting as Treasurer reported a balance on $2415.04.  Approximately $625 of which are IPF funds and will be forwarded to the IEEE office in the near future.

Secretary's report:

The secretary was not present and no report was given.

New Project Proposals:

A PAR entitled "Standard for Electronic Affidavits" was presented by Don Wright.  This PAR had been submitted to NESCOM at its September meeting but lacked a sponsor.  Mr. Wright reported an attempt to get further information from the proposed chair (Dr. Joe Ravenis) as to what would be standardized by this project.  He had not been successful.  Upon discussion with the MSC, a recommendation will be forwarded to Dr. Ravenis asking for a "white paper" on the project and potentially asking him or a representation to present the project at the Jan 2002 MSC meeting.

Liaison Reports:

Standard's Board liaison was provided in the Chair's report.

Dave Gustavson reported business as usual for the RAC.  Several vendors have requested what seems to be huge numbers of 48-bit addresses which, while a revenue boost for the Institute, might bordering on excessive.

Bob Davis reported on work within the SMPTE.    His group working on digital distribution of motion pictures is now known as DC28.2 and DC28.8.

Old Business:

The chair asked the committee for recommendations on actions to take on the following standards and PARs that will expire at YE 2001:

P1596.2 -- Allow to expire
1156.1 -- Ask Eike Waltz and follow recommendation
1156.2 -- Ask Eike Waltz and follow recommendation

New Business:

• Chair - Bob Davis
• Vice Chair - Dave Gustavson
• Secretary - Dave James
• Treasurer - Bob Ferguson

It was moved by Bob Ferguson and seconded by Bob Davis that this slate be approved by acclimation.  Motion passed unanamously.

The following nominations for the MSC representatives to the RAC were received:

• Dave Gustavson
• Dave James
• Peter Johansson

Voting was by secret ballot.  The winners were Dave Gustavson and Dave James.

Bob Davis moved and Dave Gustavson seconded that Peter Johansson be appointed by the MSC as liaison to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 WG4.  The motion passed unanimously.

Martin Freeman moved and Dave Gustavson seconded a motion to approved P1285 for ballot.  The motion passed.

Working Group Reports:

Verbal reports from 1596, P1285, P1575 and P754R were made.  Submitted reports are available here.

Highlights:

1596: New publication of the 1596 standard does not include the error corrections made in the IEC version of the document.  Dave Gustavson is working to resolve these differences.

P1285: Ready for ballot soon; final draft being completed.

P1575: Will be meeting again in October after the September meeting was cancelled due to the terrorist activities on 9/11.

P754R: New editor is David Huff.

Memory mapped, inter-processor bus study group:

This study group has expired.  No action to be taken as those potentially interested in this work have settle on a number of other standards.

For the Good of the Society:

Nothing of significance was discussed.

Adjournment:

The meeting was adjourned at 8:16PM.