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IEEE Communications Society Standards Activities OpCom2 * : September 2011 Venice, Italy Curtis A. Siller, Jr. IEEE ComSoc Standards Board (CSSB) Chair IEEE ComSoc Director of Standards. * This report builds on, but does not unnecessarily repeat items from, my BoG1 2011 report. 1.
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IEEE Communications Society Standards Activities OpCom2*: September 2011 Venice, Italy Curtis A. Siller, Jr. IEEE ComSoc Standards Board (CSSB) Chair IEEE ComSoc Director of Standards * This report builds on, but does not unnecessarily repeat items from, my BoG1 2011 report 1
What’s Happening? • DySPAN Standards Committee Update • Events Surrounding Traditional Responsibilities • Old Stuff - Hot Stuff - New Stuff 2
DySPAN Standards Committee Background • You know the history from prior reports… • DySPAN Standards Committee is now Formalized • Vice Chair and Secretary named and await CSSB approval • Oversight still in place • IEEE SASB • Gelman/Grow/Kulich • IEEE CSSB • Gelman/Hoffmeyer/Siller • Hoping to spin DySPAN SC off in 2012 as a semi-autonomous • sponsor, when SASB and CSSB approve lifting oversight * Funded from CSSB budget 3
Existing Initiatives • P1904.1 (“SIEPON”) Compliance PARs • Three compliance PARs approved by NesCom and SASB • P1904.1 Approved for Working Group Ballot • P1903 (“NGSON”) Became an Approved Standard • Next meeting will co-locate with GLOBECOM 2011 • Collocation at ICC 2011 pre-empted by Japanese disaster • P1900.4a Became a New Standard • P1900.7 PAR Approved by SASB • A confidential observation… • P1907.1 (Real-Time Multimedia) PAR Approved • Alex and Curtis, with supporting IEEE SA Staff, attended • the first meeting; collocated with September IEEE SASB meetings • P1900.5 and P1900.5.1 PARs poised for NesCom consideration • in October • P1900.5a must wait until later in the standards cycle 4
Hot Stuff • New Appeal • Against CSSB, in the context of P1905.1 PAR • Prior Appeal was brought against P1905.1 Chair • Appellee Reply Brief tendered 14 September 2011 • Over 300 hours of Siller’s time • With IEEE SA-funded legal support • Appeal Panel Hearing scheduled for 5 September in • Piscataway • A new P1905.1 complaint lodged 13 September 2011 by same • Appellant.. 5
Familiar Stuff • On-Going Effort to Resolve Bylaws Impasse • Hosted “Standards Reconciliation Summit” • ComSoc Headquarters • Attended by: • ChandNaresh (Chair, North Jersey Section), Tarek • El-Bawab (Chair, TAOS), Rob Fish (Secretary, CSSB), • Stefano Galli (MAL, ITU G.hnem Chair), Alex Gelman • (Vice Chair, CSSB), Jack Howell (ExDir), Curtis Siller • (Chair, CSSB) • Separate Reports prepared • Little progress toward reconciliation of differences; much shouting • My view: • Much ado about little • TC Liaisons are invited; they participate - when they’re interested • Everything is working fine • TC interest is exaggerated • Misunderstanding: CSSB role is mostly about “process” • TCs cannot be recognized as SA entities 6
On the Horizon? • Standard for Indic Input Method for Mobile Phones (PAR) • SmartGrid PAR: Faure/Golmie/Vinor • DySPAN Workshop in Washington DC this past weekend • P1904.1 planning panel with IFIP 2012 • Siller/Gelman invited to participate ICC 2012 Standards Panel • Pubs: • Building on IEEE CommMag Standards Series • Series Editors: Yoichi Maeda and MostafaSherif • Five Feature Topics currently scheduled • MehmetToy (CNSC) developing CommMag FT, 2012 • SIEPON FT scheduled for CommMag in July 2012 • Two other FTs will have standards content • 5 + 2 = 7 FTs • JSAC “Smart Grid” CFP • Will likely include standards-related material • Investigating revenue opportunities to off-set standards development • expenses • September meeting with Mills (IEEE SA President) and • Don Wright (IEEE SA Treasurer) 7