Final Agenda for the 990712 meeting
| Chair: | Dave Gustavson (absent) |
| Vice Chair: | Don Wright |
| Secretary: | Larry Stein |
| Treasurer: | Bob Davis |
The meeting was held at the Mandarin Classic Restaurant in Los Altos, CA
There was no speaker at this meeting
Don Wright, Larry Stein, Martin Freeman, Dave James, Bob Davis, Brian Folsom, Dick Karpinski, Bob Ferguson
Additions to New Business Agenda approved without objection
Previous minutes approved without objection
Dave provided Don with the following report items:
from Peter Boltruczyk of Raytheon. The IEEE is trying in vain to find someone to answer the questions about a difficult tolerance. No one in the meeting was able to help.
Nothing to report
He and Bob will work out the details.
Nothing to report
No new proposals.
Nothing to report
No report
with the way Cisco Systems has been using the lower 16 bits of the OUI numbers. They are working this out but it will take some time.
to determine "how to incorporate the emerging 128 bit numbers with the current 64 bit system." It is suggested that Dave Gustavson write a letter to the chairs of the Future I/O and NGIO groups to see about cooperation with this and to incorporate their usage within the IEEE guidelines.
Steve Diamond will be sending a letter to each of the BASC chairs indicating that in 30 days their standards will be transferred to the MSC. At that point the status of the BASC will be determined by the SAB.
There are still requests coming in for P996 (ISA Bus) documents. This standard is not completed and has not been released. There remains some work to be done to complete this. There was a discussion and the consensus was that there is no MSC support (i.e. volunteers) for completing this and therefore the issue is killed.
Steve Diamond (through letter) reminded the MSC that the Hans Karlsson award was created in memory of one of the MSC's own yet there have been few nominations for it and none in the last few years. Don urged the MSC members to consider nominating someone. More information about the award is available from http://hopper.computer.org/awards.nsf/karlsson
Martin made a motion to "Request an extension for 1285 (SCI) until October 2000." This was seconded by Dave James. The status is waiting for the editor to finish the document. Dick K. volunteered to review the document for readability. Motion passed without objection.
There appear to be some problems with the format of the 1394B meetings. It was suggested that Dave Gustavson work with Steve Diamond to compose a letter to the 1394B chair to remind him that "IEEE Working Group meetings are open to all interested individuals."
There was a discussion about the location of the MSC home page. It was suggested that Dave move this to a neutral site like the IEEE.
The Ballot Resolution Committee meeting was held in December 1998. We received 25 affirmative and 1 negative vote, for a 96% affirmative return. All issues were addressed at the BRC meeting. The problem has been getting the editor to incorporate the final changes from the BRC into the draft. When this is done the draft and documentation will be sent to the IEEE for approval. Larry is working to get this resolved with the editor within the next 60 days.
A new ballot body was developed as of June 1999. We are waiting for the editor, Brian Batchelder, to finalize the draft and prepare it for balloting. Larry has had a very difficult time getting a commitment from Brian for this draft. Don will try to assist in this.
They are working on getting a meeting organized. This could be done in parallel to a SCIzzL meeting.
There will be a revision to the IEEE Std. 1284-1994. Waiting on action items from various committee members.
No reports.
prior to the start of the meeting. In order to attract a wider participation in the MSC planning we may want to consider sending a notice out to the working groups that their participation would be welcomed. We should try to attract new people and new ideas into the planning process.
Respectfully submitted, Larry Stein