IEEE-SA Liaison Report
SAB Meeting
February 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
2007 SASB
2007 Leadership:
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Chair
Vice Chair
Past Chair
NesCom
RevCom
PatCom
ProCom
AudCom
SCC Liaison
Steve Mills (CS)
TBD
Don Wright (CS, ComSoc, SIT, Engr Mgmt)
Ron Petersen
Malcolm Thaden
David Law (CS)
Richard Hulett
Glenn Parsons (CS)
Howard Wolfman
2007 Meeting Schedule:
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March 20-22, 2007
June 26-28, 2007
September 25-27, 2007
December 3-5, 2007
Piscataway, NJ
Piscataway, NJ
Piscataway, NJ
Florida
2007 SASB Membership
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Chairman: Mills, Steve - CS, ComSoc
Past Chairman: Wright, Don - CS, ComSoc, SIT, Engr Mgmt
Reappointments:
Goldbach, William - PES
Greenspan, Arnie - AES
Grow, Robert - CS
Guenin, Joanna - CS
Hanus, Ken - PES
Hopf, William, III - PES
Hulett, Richard - IAS
Law, David - CS
Parsons, Glenn - CS
Petersen, Ron - SCC39/ICES
Prevost, Tom - PES
Ratta, Greg - ComSoc
Robson, Robby - CS
Sahazizian, Anne-Marie - PES
Thaden, Malcolm - PES
Townsend, Richard - CS
Wolfman, Howard - IAS
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TAB Representative: TBD
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New:
Gelman, Alex - ComSoc
Kulick, John - PES
Ramachandran, Narayanan-SCC20
DeBlasio, Dick - SCC21
2007 SASB Committees
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NESCOM
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
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REVCOM
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
2007 SASB Committees
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PROCOM
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PATCOM
Rich Hulett, Chair
David Law, Chair
Ken Hanus
Chuck Adams
Hermann Koch
Rich Hulett
David Law
Karen Kenney (non-voting)
Glenn Parsons
Rick Townsend
Narayanan Ramachandran
Don Wright
Greg Ratta
Dave Ringle, PatCom Secretary
Malcolm Thaden
Howard Wolfman
Dave Ringle, ProCom Secretary
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AUDCOM
Glenn Parsons, Chair
Arnie Greenspan
Hermann Koch
Ron Petersen
Gary Robinson
Howard Wolfman
Rona Gertz, AudCom Secretary
2006 RevCom Statistics
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
8-Yr
Avg
New
38
49
28
30
42
46
34
34
38
Revision
21
32
26
36
20
36
43
40
32
TOTAL
59
81
54
66
62
82
77
74
70
Reaffirmation
42
38
30
53
45
42
36
56
43
TOTAL
101
119
84
119
107
124
113
130
113
2006 NesCom Statistics
New PARs
Modified PARs
Revision of Stds.
Extension Req.
Withdrawals
Admin. Withdrawals
TOTAL
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
78/3
41
45/2
68/12
17
14
81/16
25/7
57/13
61/15
29
19
84/6
23/2
31/2
67/11
10
25
48/5
22/3
31/2
73/15
15
34
77/12
29/1
49/7
71/15
15
24/1
43/12
49/1
47/3
56/17
14
26
46/1
20
31/1
80/14
21
39
86/11
18/2
50/1
53/13
12
44
263/17 272/51 240/22 223/25 265/36 235/33 237/16 263/27
Activities at the Dec SASB Mtg
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Heard reports from the 802.20 oversight committee and
the appointed 802.20 chair
Approved 1394c, which had previous been deferred
pending receipt of certain Letters of Assurance
Approved the extension of the P802.20 PAR for two
years with the following conditions:
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The officers of the WG shall be approved by the SASB.
Continued oversight by the 802 EC Oversight Committee and
the IEEE SASB Oversight Committee.
Quarterly review of the project by the SASB, which could result
in the withdrawal of the PAR.
A report from the DASC chair was heard concerning
allegations of dominance. The chair was asked to
update the Standards Board at future meetings.
Activities at the Dec SASB Mtg
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Consider and approved changes to the SASB Bylaws and
Operations Manual concerning:
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Dominance
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Scope and purpose consistency
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P&Ps under development
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Antitrust language in SASB Ops Man 5.3.8
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Approved minor changes to clause 6 of the Ops Mans and the
LOA form (both previously approved) to bring them into
alignment with the Bylaws clause 6 changes made by the BoG.
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See the updated SASB bylaws and ops man attached to this
agenda.
The SASB was informed that the IEEE BoD approved changes to
the IEEE Bylaws to fix the problems with WG electronic voting
previously caused by NY state non-for-profit law.
2007 IEEE-SA Board of Governors
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George Arnold, President
Don Heirman, Past President
Steve Mills, SASB Chair
Don Wright, SASB Past Chair & Treasurer
Judith Gorman*, Secretary
Chuck Adams, CAG Chair
 Dennis Brophy
Mary Saunders
 Lanny Floyd
Carl Stevenson
 Bilel Jamoussi
Phil Wennblom
 Fran O’Brien
Bruce McClung
New Members
* Non-voting
IEEE-SA Board of Governors
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Last face-to-face meeting was held Dec. 2,
2006
Work continued on the SA Strategy
Actions included:
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Approving new Patent Policy
Approving a variety of other policy changes
Appointed the 2007 SASB Chair
Appointed the 2007 SASB Members
Approved candidates for 2007 elections
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SA President
CAG
BoG Members at Large
Thanks!!
If you have any questions,
please send them to me at
f.wright@ieee.org