IEEE-SA Liaison Report

1. IEEE-SA Liaison Report SAB Meeting May 2008 Don Wright Director of Standards, Lexmark International IEEE-SA Treasurer Member, IEEE SA Board of Governors Patent Committee Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors

2. 2008 SASB 2008 Leadership: • Chair Bob Grow (CS) • Vice Chair Tom Prevost • Past Chair Steve Mills (CS, ComSoc) • NesCom Tom Prevost • RevCom David Law (CS) • PatCom Don Wright (CS, ComSoc, SIT) • ProCom Richard Hulett • AudCom Glenn Parsons (CS) • SCC Liaison Steve Mills 2008 Meeting Schedule: • June 10-12 Piscataway, NJ • September 24-26 Seoul, South Korea • December 8-10 Florida

3. Chairman: Grow, Bob Past Chairman: Mills, Steve Reappointments:DeBlasio, DickGoldbach, WilliamGreenspan, ArnieHanus, KenHulett, RichardKulick, JohnLaw, DavidParsons, GlennPetersen, RonPrevost, TomRamachandran, NarayananSahazizian, Anne-MarieThaden, MalcolmWolfman, HowardWright, Don 2008 SASB Membership • TAB Representative: Gelman, Alex • New for 2007: Berman, VictorDrozd, AndrewEpstein, MarkHughes, JimKim, Young KyunPowers, ChuckRosdahl, Jon No Changes

4. NESCOM 2008 SASB Committees • REVCOM Tom Prevost, Chair Karen Bartleson Anthony Cerino Richard DeBlasio Mark Epstein Ken Hanus Young Kyun Kim Hung Ling Ted Olsen Ron Petersen Narayanan Ramachandran Jon Rosdahl Anne-Marie Sahazizian Michael Stora Geoff Thompson Lisa Yacone, NesCom Secretary David Law, Chair Satish Aggarwal Phillip Barber Victor Berman Clint Chaplin Wael Diab Andrew Drozd Alex Gelman Daniel Giusto Jim Hughes John Kulick Gary Robinson Samuel Sciacca Malcom Thaden Moira Patterson, RevCom Secretary No Changes

5. PROCOM 2008 SASB Committees • PATCOM • AUDCOM Rich Hulett, Chair William Goldbach Jim Hughes David Law Glenn Parsons Chuck Powers Malcolm Thaden Dave Ringle, ProCom Sec. Don Wright, Chair Rich HulettJohn Kulick Karen Kenney (non-voting) David Law Steve Mills Fran O’Brien Claire Topp (Legal Counsel) Michael Lindsay (Legal Counsel) Dave Ringle, PatCom Sec. Glenn Parsons, Chair Clint Chaplin Arnie Greenspan Ted Olsen Ron Petersen Chuck Powers Gary Robinson Howard Wolfman Rona Gertz, AudCom Sec. No Changes

6. SASB Activities • No meeting since the March SASB • RevCom has had one early consideration cycle: • 3 new standards approved • 1 revision approved • 5 reaffirmations approved

7. June SASB Meeting Schedule • At the IEEE Service Center in Piscataway, NJ • June 10 • AudCom (8:30AM – Noon) • PatCom (1PM – 3PM) • ProCom (4PM – 8PM) • June 11 • NesCom (9AM – 2PM) • RevCom (9AM – 2PM) • June 12 • SASB (8:30AM – 4PM)

8. 2008 IEEE-SA Board of Governors • George Arnold, President • Chuck Adams, President-Elect • Bob Grow, SASB Chair • Steve Mills, Past SASB Chair & CAG Chair • Don Wright, Treasurer • Judith Gorman*, Secretary • Greg Saunders • Ted Olsen • Phil Wennblom • Ben Johnson • Dennis Brophy • Lanny Floyd • Bilel Jamoussi • Fran O’Brien No Changes * Non-voting

9. June SA BoG Meeting • CICG Facility in Geneva, Switzerland • June 3 • New Business Ad Hoc (9AM – 4PM) • International Ad Hoc (9AM – 4PM) • June 4 - 5 • SA Board of Governors (9AM – 4PM)

10. IEEE-SA BoG Strategy • Over the last year, the BoG has been methodically working toward a strategic vision and a plan. • Through facilitated sessions it has developed the following: • PURPOSE STATEMENT • To enable and promote the collaborative application of technical knowledge to advance economic and social well-being. • BIG AUDACIOUS GOAL / 10 YEAR GOAL • Be recognized as a preferred global provider of high-quality, market-relevant technology standards and services that promote their universal adoption. • 5 KEY FOCUS AREAS / 3-5 YEAR GOALS • Organizational Business Model • Nurturing Strategic Technologies • Process Efficiency • Education About Standards • Global Participation and Perception

11. IEEE-SA BoG Strategy • Further, for each of the 5 key focus area, it has tried to express what would happen if the SA was successful in each: • Organizational Business Model • IEEE-SA will have robust and appropriately balanced lines of business that will reflect the full life cycle of standards. • Nurturing Strategic Technologies • The IEEE SA will collaboratively create an environment to incubate technologies that may become market-relevant standards. • Process Efficiency • The IEEE SA will provide an efficient standards development environment and a streamlined process time to completion for the 4 stages of standards development: 1. time to initiation, 2. time to document creation, 3. ballot and resolution, 4. full life cycle support. The overall results will include faster time to completion. • Education About Standards • The IEEE will: 1. improve the understanding of standards; 2. speed the adoption of standards and standards related products; 3. increase global participation/acceptance and get more people involved in the process. • Global Participation and Perception • The SA is an international organization and will have strong international participation on all levels (governance, etc.).

12. IEEE-SA BoG Strategy • Also, for each of the 5 key focus area, a set of actions necessary to achieve the vision are being developed. For example for the “Organizational Business Model” focus area: • Increase public relations and marketing to build on value of the IEEE brand • Manage reserves and insurance to satisfy risk concerns • Prioritize range of business opportunities throughout the full standards life cycle • Incentivize volunteers and staff entrepreneurial endeavors that further the strategic plan • Reduce issues arising from limitations of IEEE business systems • Apply assessment tools to new businesses (and over time, all businesses) to allow judgment of program success from various perspectives • Broaden education of the IEEE Board of Directors on an ongoing basis regarding the value and use of standards. • Add and enlarge existing revenue streams to allow the SA to grow the number of free access offerings of standards • Decrease direct hard copy distribution of standards by SA, including a “stop” target date. • This BoG will continue to work “downward” to further refine the tasks and actions necessary to achieve the stated goals.

13. IEEE-SA Board of Governors • Nominations and Appointments Committee • Nominations for the BoG, the CAG, and the SASB are open. Ben Johnson is the N&A chair. • Be thinking about people who should be nominated for • Standards Board • BoG Member-at-large • SA President-Elect • Corporate Advisory Group • Advise Don Wright if you or someone you know might be interested in serving.

14. IEEE-SA Board of Governors • Awards Committee • Nominations for various SA Awards are now being accepted. Bruce McClung is the Awards chair. • Awards include: • Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award • International Award • Corporate Award • SASB Distinguished Service Award • Sponsor Award for Corp Standards Development

15. L50-S Status • All CS Sponsors have submitted their L50-S form for 2007 …. except: • One of MSC’s WGs (1363) has previously had a bank account and has not submitted a 2007 L50-S

16. CS Sponsor P&P Status • Nothing has changed since the last SASB meeting since AudCom does not meet between face-to-face meetings. • Current P&Ps is always available from: • https://development.standards.ieee.org/pub/view-sponsor-pnps • All CS sponsors have either “Accepted” or “Visibly under Development” Policy and Procedures.

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