IEEE-SA Liaison Report

1. IEEE-SA Liaison Report SAB Meeting May 2007 Don Wright Director of Standards, Lexmark International IEEE-SA Treasurer Member, IEEE SA Board of Governors Past Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors

2. 2007 SASB 2007 Leadership: • Chair Steve Mills (CS) • Vice Chair Bob Grow (CS) • Past Chair Don Wright (CS, ComSoc, SIT, Engr Mgmt) • NesCom Ron Petersen • RevCom Malcolm Thaden • PatCom David Law (CS) • ProCom Richard Hulett • AudCom Glenn Parsons (CS) • SCC Liaison Howard Wolfman 2007 Meeting Schedule: • June 26-28, 2007 Piscataway, NJ • September 25-27, 2007 Piscataway, NJ • December 3-5, 2007 Hallendale Beach, Florida

3. Chairman: Mills, Steve - CS, ComSoc Past Chairman: Wright, Don - CS, ComSoc, SIT, Engr Mgmt Reappointments:Goldbach, William - PESGreenspan, Arnie - AESGrow, Robert - CSGuenin, Joanna - CSHanus, Ken - PESHopf, William, III - PESHulett, Richard - IASLaw, David - CSParsons, Glenn - CSPetersen, Ron - SCC39/ICESPrevost, Tom - PESRatta, Greg - ComSocRobson, Robby - CSSahazizian, Anne-Marie - PESThaden, Malcolm - PESTownsend, Richard - CSWolfman, Howard - IAS 2007 SASB Membership • TAB Representative: Virginia Sulzberger • New for 2007: Gelman, Alex - ComSocKulick, John - PESRamachandran, Narayanan-SCC20DeBlasio, Dick - SCC21Koch, Hermann - PES

4. NESCOM 2007 SASB Committees • REVCOM Ron Petersen, Chair Chuck Adams Thomas Blair Richard DeBlasio Joanna Guenin William Hopf Young Kyun Kim Ted Olsen Glenn Parsons Thomas Prevost Narayanan Ramachandran Robby Robson Jon Rosdahl Anne-Marie Sahazizian Rick Townsend Sherry Hampton, NesCom Secretary Malcolm Thaden, Chair Stephen Adam Satish Aggarwal Mark Epstein Alex Gelman Daniel Giusto Bill Goldbach Bob Grow Ken Hanus Jim Hughes John Kulick David Law Gary Robinson Geoff Thompson Dave Ringle, RevCom Secretary

5. PROCOM 2007 SASB Committees • PATCOM • AUDCOM Rich Hulett, Chair Ken Hanus Hermann Koch David Law Glenn Parsons Narayanan Ramachandran Greg Ratta Malcolm Thaden Howard Wolfman Dave Ringle, ProCom Secretary David Law, Chair Chuck Adams Rich Hulett Karen Kenney (non-voting) Rick Townsend Don Wright Dave Ringle, PatCom Secretary Glenn Parsons, Chair Arnie Greenspan Hermann Koch Ron Petersen Gary Robinson Howard Wolfman Rona Gertz, AudCom Secretary

6. RevCom Statistics (as of March 2007 SASB Meeting)

7. NesCom Statistics (as of March 2007 SASB Meeting)

8. Activities at the March SASB Mtg • Heard reports from the 802.20 oversight committee; progress is being made in 802.20 • Submissions of L50-S (financial reporting form) have been slow. As of the SASB meeting, 55 of 150 sponsors and 262 of 573 working groups had submitted their L50-S forms. The SASB will review the progress at its June meeting and is expected to halt all activities of non-compliant sponsors and working groups. • The SASB confirmed the elections of two new 802.20 vice-chairs. • Progress is continuing on the P&P text for stabilized standards. • New antitrust guidelines were approved by the Standards Board. See http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf

9. Activities at the March SASB Mtg • The P&Ps of several CS Sponsors were approved: • Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization • Storage Systems • Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee • Test Technology Standards Committee • Information Assurance Standards Committee • LMSC (802) P&Ps were identified as being visibly under development. • SCC 41 DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks) was approved by the SASB. • It was reported that text crafted by ProCom for the BOG Operations Manual to create a Standards Conduct Committee to hear and recommend sanctions against standards participants regardless of whether or not they were IEEE members was approved by the BOG.

10. Activities since the March SASB Mtg • On April 30, 2007, the IEEE received a positive response from the US DOJ in regards to the new IEEE Patent Policy. See: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/busreview/222978.htm • Statement of Affiliation requirements now being enforced by myProject. • The new IEEE Patent Policy went into effect on May 1, 2007. See the following: • SASB Bylaws, Clause 6 • http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 • SASB Ops Manual, Clause 6.3 • http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3 • Letter of Assurance Template • http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf • Working Group Meeting Slide Set • http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf • New Patent Policy Tutorial • http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/tutorial.pdf • New Patent Policy FAQ • http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf

11. 2007 IEEE-SA Board of Governors • George Arnold, President • Don Heirman, Past President • Steve Mills, SASB Chair • Don Wright, SASB Past Chair & Treasurer • Judith Gorman*, Secretary • Chuck Adams, CAG Chair • Mary Saunders • Carl Stevenson • Phil Wennblom • Bruce McClung • Dennis Brophy • Lanny Floyd • Bilel Jamoussi • Fran O’Brien New Members for 2007 * Non-voting

12. IEEE-SA Board of Governors • Last face-to-face meeting was held February 26 - 27, 2007 in Piscataway. • The BoG began discussions on how to appoint, monitor and direct representatives of the SA to external ogranizations. • Two ad hoc committees of the BoG were created to work on a variety of issues: • International Committee • Business Development Committee • 2008 will be the 10th anniversary of the IEEE-SA. The BoG is considering what, if any, activities should be held to commemorate this milestone. • The IEEE-SA Operations Manual was changed to make the IEEE-SA Treasurer a voting position on the BoG. Corresponding language will have to be approved by the IEEE BoD before this change can become effective.

13. IEEE-SA Board of Governors • Discussion of the IEEE-SA Financial Viability Plan (FVP) was thorough and intense. This included such diverse topics as: • Funded Services Pricing Changes - tabled • Entity Participation Fee Changes - tabled • Academic Package Pricing - approved • Individual Participation Fee • Motion: “Move that the IEEE-SA investigate implications and acceptance of potential individual method project participation fees.” - approved • Business Development ad hoc to oversee the FVP - approved • The BoG heard a presentation on the GEOSS work. They are seeking individuals to help with this project. • Next BoG meeting is week of June 25, 2007 also in Piscataway.

14. Thanks!! If you have any questions, please send them to me at f.wright@ieee.org