From: Bob Davis [mailto:bob@scsi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:58 AM
To: 'stds-msc@ieee.org'
Subject: April 12 meeting confirmation.

MSC,

The MSC will meet on 12 April, the day after Easter, at Chef Chu’s, as originally planned. We will have to wait to have Andy join up possibly in July.

Additional items on the agenda include;

The PAR requests forwarded by the Study Groups meeting last Friday for Dave James RBR proposal
The PAR request for the Memory Channel PAR by Bob Davis
The P754R presentation, discussion, and guidance recommendation base on the restructuring of the proposed Revision standard to include levels of compliance with the current definition of 754 and new levels of compliance with the upgrades being proposed and most of the work of the committee.
Peter Johansson request, just made, to reverse the assignment of the 0x00A0 3F00 02XX group of numbers for the 1394 project as made at the last MSC. Peter has sent the balloted draft out with the binary ‘1394’ = 0x0572 as the assignment 0x00A0 3F05 7200 through 0x00A0 3F05 73FF. As this has gone to ballot, a recirculation ballot is required to bring this back to compliance with the value I assigned while waiting for the Policy Committee to draft a proposal and tries to follow the RAC policy of not associating the assigned number with the any aspect of the project. I will ask for the MSC decision on this matter.
The selection of MSC projects to be forwarded through the Microprocessor TAG to JTC1 for ISO/IEC consideration. The TAG meeting will most likely take place on 18 April – Sunday.
The request for Sponsor Ballot from Bruce Nordman for the P1621 effort.

From the minutes of the January meeting.

This discussion on the allocation of the MSC’s OUI (00-A0-3F)for software identifier for the various standards within the authority of the MSC.

Motion – Johansson, Sec – Ferguson – that the MSC establish procedures to administer the grant of software protocol IDs to MSC-sponsored working groups. The general principles of such procedures are outlined in a January 8, 2004 EMail from Peter Johansson to the MSC reflector; an ad hoc group shall be convened to draft formal procedures for ratification by the MSC.

Motion passed 8:1(Tsai). The make up of the group is Johansson, Gustavson, James, Karpinski, Tsai, Davis.

Motion – Johansson Sec – Zuras - that the MSC grant the IEEE 1394 working groups a contiguous block of 256 48-bit software protocol IDs for use in IEEE standards developed by the working groups. Motion passed 7:3

(Update) Per the request, while the AdHoc does its work, the chair is assigning 1394 working group the 48 bit allocation of 00-A0-3F-00-02-00(HEX) through 00-A0-3F-00-02-FF following the guidelines of the RAC. This is the 256 addresses requested. I assumed that the 00A03F0000 block will never be assigned and the 00A03F0001block will be used for cross standard applications within the MSC domain.

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The AdHoc met briefly last Friday without the presence of Peter. The decision was to of that group was to leave the situation as it was at that time and wait for Peters return. We may need to take this up again at the next MSC.

Respectfully,

Bob Davis

Chairman Microprocessor Standards Committee

Member IEEE SA Standard Board

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