Status Report for P1394.1, High Performance Serial Bus Bridges

The Sponsor Ballot for P1394.1 Draft 1.0 closed Saturday, July 14 with the
following results:

a) Out of a ballot group of 52 people, 40 voted and 2 abstained. This is a
ballot return rate of 80%, which exceeds IEEE requirements.

b) Of the 40 voters, 32 voted affirmatively and 8 voted negatively; this
exceeds IEEE requirements for 75% affirmative.

These results may be viewed in more detail at
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1394/1/Documents/BR096R00.pdf. Strictly
speaking, P1394.1 Draft 1.0 is approved. However, there were a large number
of thoughtful comments (21 voters submitted comments) and a BRC will be
convened to resolve the issues. The BRC has been organized and consists of
the following individuals:

Braneci@CRF.Canon.fr (Mohamed Braneci)
JFuller@Computer.org (John Fuller)
Hunter@TimeFactor.com (David Hunter)
PJohansson@ACM.org (Peter Johansson)
JRomijn@win.tue.nl (Judi Romijn)
T.Sato@Philips.com (Takashi Sato)
StraubG@THMulti.com (Gilles Straub)
Eldad Teeni <Eldad.Teeni@Fire-Media.com>
Thomas.Thaler@BridgeCo.net (Thomas Thaler)
Kazunobu.Toguchi@Philips.com (Kazunobu Toguchi)
Colin@Zayante.com (Colin Whitby-Strevens)
David.Wooten@IEEE.org (David Wooten)

All of the ballot comments have been organized into a registry,
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1394/1/Documents/BR097R00.pdf. I am going to
work on editorial comment resolution. In parallel, I have asked other BRC
members to start discussions to resolve technical issues. When it seems we
have progressed as far as possible without a face-to-face meeting, I will
schedule a meeting.

Serial Bus faces ENORMOUS competitive challenges in the area of Home
Networks; because bridges are an integral part of that solution, I think we
need to progress as rapidly as possible.


Regards,

Peter Johansson

Congruent Software, Inc.
98 Colorado Avenue
Berkeley, CA  94707

(510) 527-3926
(510) 527-3856 FAX

PJohansson@ACM.org

Status Report for P1394b

The BRC has completed its work on responding to the comments received during
the second  balloting (first recirculation ballot).  The intent is to have a
revised version ready for a second recirculation ballot by the end of Sept.
This will have a balloting period of 10 days.

Since both ballots of 1394b have received sufficient positive votes to pass,
and since we have correct all the comments associated with negative votes,
it is expected that this ballot will also pass if we have sufficient
responses.

I have not been contacted by the IEEE editor who is supposed to be handling
the 1394b specification.

David Wooten
wd@cypress.com