Draft Minutes

INCITS Standards Development Board (SDB)
Meeting Number 1 - Inaugural Meeting

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February 10, 2003	1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
February 11, 2003	9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
February 12, 2003	9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

1.1 Call to Order

Ms. Higginbottom, Chairman of the former INCITS Executive Board, called the inaugural meeting of the INCITS Standards Development Board (SDB) to order at 1:00 PM on Monday, February 10, 2003.

1.2 Membership and Attendance

1.2.1 Introduction of Attendees and Members

The meeting participants were introduced. The attendance list for the February 2003 inaugural meeting of the INCITS Standards Development Board is available in Attachment 1.

The following TC Chairmen were in attendance to present annual reports: Dr. Deutsch (H2) and Mr. McLean (T13).

1.2.2 For Action - Membership Report

Voting membership on the Standards Development Board is achieved when voting membership has been established on the Executive Board.

• As reported in it021295, Ms. Stamnes has withdrawn as an Intel alternate representative.
• Mr. Mondello has been named the Sun Microsystems principal representative, and Mr. Hill will serve as the alternate (in030011).
• Boeing has terminated its advisory membership (in030085).
• IEEE has announced that Ms. Gorman will serve as their principal representative with Mr. Holleman and Dr. Pritchard serving as the alternate representatives (in030093).
• As reported in in030129, Mr. Schoechle has been named the Farance, Inc. alternate representative.
• Unisys has changed to advisory membership as detailed in in030179.
• IBM has withdrawn Mr. Adams as their alternate representative on the committee (in030183).
• DCTA Inc. has changed to advisory membership (in030215).
• Intel has named Mr. Thewlis an alternate representative (in030216).
• Imation has terminated advisory membership on INCITS (in030217).

The Executive Board approved the EIA contribution (in030213) requesting an attendance waiver for voting members of the previous organizations.   The INCITS Secretariat was instructed to notify the following members that if they are not represented at the April 7-11, 2003 meeting of the Executive Board, they will have failed to establish voting membership on the committee and will need to attend two out of three successive meetings to establish voting rights on the Executive Board: EIA, Panasonic Technologies, US DoD/DISA and Xerox.

Ms. Higginbottom asked those in attendance if they intended to participate as voting members on the Standards Development Board.  Mr. Hogan stated that NIST would not be a voting member of the Standards Development Board. It was agreed that the following Executive Board voting members not in attendance would be voting members of the Standards Development Board unless they notified the Secretariat to the contrary:  EIA, Panasonic Technologies, US DoD/DISA and Xerox.

At this time, voting SDB membership is:

• 13 Business (Large/Small Business): Apple Computer, Farance Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Network Appliance, Open Strategies, Oracle, Panasonic Technologies, Sony Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Xerox 
• 4 Non-Business (Government/Major and Minor SDOs): EIA, IEEE, Uniform Code Council (UCC), US DoD/DISA 
• 2 Special Interest (User Groups/Academic/Consortia): ICCP, Purdue University
• 2 Advisory (non-voting):  DCTA Inc., Unisys
  

Voting membership stands at 19 organizations. Quorum is 10 . Fifteen organizations with voting memberships attended the February 2003 inaugural meeting of the INCITS Standards Development Board. The attendance list is available in Attachment 1.

Reference: it021295 (Intel), in030011 (Sun Microsystems), in030085 (Boeing), in030093 (IEEE), in030129 (Farance, Inc.), in030179 (Unisys), in030183 (IBM), in030213 (EIA contribution), in030215 (DCTA Inc.), in030216 (Intel), in030217 (Imation)

1.3 Review of Action Items for Consideration by the Standards Development Board (SDB)

Ms. Garner reported that the Transition Team had reviewed the action items from the previous INCITS and JTC 1 TAG organizations and transferred them to the appropriate body in the new INCITS organization. The action items assigned to the INCITS Standards Development Board are contained in in030019. Ms. Garner reported that with the exception of the following, the action items were completed or overcome by events:

Action Items Previously Assigned to the INCITS Executive Board

3. The Secretariat will refer the INCITS EB members to the SD-3 and SD-10 checklists prepared by MOC and links to the checklists will be placed on the INCITS web site. (Agenda Item 8.1, August 2002 INCITS EB minutes - IT/02-0952)

7. Mr. Hogan, the acting Fast Track Facilitator, agreed to prepare a process flow chart/checklist with estimated timeframes for use by INCITS fast track submitters. (Agenda Item 5.3, November 2002 INCITS EB minutes - IT/02-1276)

10. The INCITS Liaison to V2, Mr. Hill, was requested to conduct exit interviews with the five V2 members that have dropped membership during the reporting period and present the information at the February 2003 INCITS meeting. (Agenda Item 6.1.12, November 2002 INCITS EB minutes - IT/02-1276)

27. The Secretariat will notify the TC Chairmen that Mr. Hogan will be available to assist with fast track issues in Ms. McMillan's absence. (Agenda Item 7.6, November 2002 INCITS EB minutes - IT/02-1276)

31. The INCITS Secretariat will request that TC Chairmen provide a list of withdrawn standards they would like to make available. Identified T10 and T11 Standards will serve as the test case. The Secretariat will work with ITI legal counsel to ensure the appropriate disclaimers and legal warnings, as well as IP issues, are addressed and incorporated in the documentation. The Secretariat will post the list of withdrawn standards on the INCITS web site including information on how to obtain them. The Secretariat will contact ANSI to determine whether or not there are procedural/accreditation impediments to making withdrawn standards available. (Agenda Item 8.2, November 2002 INCITS EB minutes - IT/02-1276)

As reference, the proposed program of work for the INCITS Standards Development Board is detailed in in030158.

Reference: in030019 (action items), in030158 (SDB program of work),

1.4 Approval of the Draft Agenda, February 10-12, 2003

The participants were referred to the second revised draft agenda for the February 10-12, 2003 meeting of the INCITS Standards Development Board (in030201). The following changes to the agenda were made at the meeting:

• post documents in030215, in030216 and in030217 to agenda item 1.2.2
• add agenda item 9.2 - Items Remanded from the INCITS Boards or Board Committees
• add agenda item 9.2.1 - Wireless LAN/Internet Access at INCITS Meetings
• add agenda item 9.2.2 - Teleconference Access for Executive Board Meetings
  

The second revised draft agenda (in030201) was approved as revised at this meeting by unanimous consent (Deutsch/Davis). The final agenda for the February 10-12, 2003 inaugural meeting of the INCITS Standards Development Board is available in Attachment 2.

Reference: in030201

1.5 Review of INCITS Antitrust Guidelines

ITI legal counsel developed antitrust guidelines for all ITI-sponsored activities and requires that the guidelines be reviewed with the committees at the first meeting of the year. The guidelines were revised in 2002. While compliance with the antitrust guidelines is a condition of employment for all ITI staff, the guidelines provide advice to the members.

INCITS members had been asked to review the INCITS Antitrust Guidelines (in030204) so that any questions could be addressed at the February 2003 Standards Development Board meeting. As no questions were raised, members were reminded that if they have  any specific concerns or questions, they may forward them to the INCITS Secretariat for consideration by ITI legal counsel.

Reference: in030204

3.1 INCITS Technical Committee Annual Reports

Ms. Higginbottom referred the Standards Development Board to the annual report schedule for this meeting as contained in in030032. She noted that the J7 annual report would be rescheduled for the April 2003 meeting as it had not been submitted prior to this meeting.  Additionally, the J17 and J18 annual reports had been submitted using the old SD-10 form.

Action Item:  The INCITS Secretariat will remind the TC Chairmen to use the new annual report form.

Following significant discussion, the Standards Development Board agreed to the following order of preference for TC annual report presentations:

1. The TC Chairman attends the Standards Development Board meeting and delivers the annual report in person.
2. The TC Chairman delivers the annual report by teleconference.
3. The INCITS Liaison presents the annual report.

Action Item:  The Secretariat will prepare an annual report schedule for 2004 taking the home location of the TC Chairmen into consideration to minimize their travel.

Reference: in030032

3.1.1 Annual Report for Technical Committee H2 - Database (D. Deutsch - H2 Chairman / K. Zemrowski - Liaison)

(Monday, February 10, 2003 4:30 - 5:00 PM)

Dr. Deutsch, the H2 Chairman, presented the H2 annual report covering the period March 2002 to January 2003 (in030113). H2 is responsible for the development of standards for the syntax and semantics of database languages. H2 serves as the US TAG to JTC 1/SC 32 WGs 3 and 4.

Since the last H2 annual report, the committee focused its efforts on completing SQL 200n and SQL/MM Data mining. Membership has remained constant at 14 organizations. Dr. Deutsch reported that a standard for SQL/JRT and a Technical Corrigendum to ISO/IEC 9075:1999 SQL Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 were published by ISO. Two parts of SQL (JRT and XML) and three parts of SQL/MM (Full Text, Spatial and Still Image) were progressed to FCD. Working Drafts for all 9 parts of SQL Next (after 200n) were also published during this period.

H2 established task group H2.3 on SQL/XML to bring work being conducted informally in an external group into the INCITS family. H2.2 on SQL/CLI was disbanded. In addition, H2 held their first electronic meeting, a four hour teleconference with concurrent use of a web-based group-ware tool.

Dr. Deutsch reported that identification of a stable source for infrastructure support without negatively impacting H2 and corresponding JTC 1 activities will be a challenge facing H2 in the coming year. H2 will review their internal procedures against the new INCITS/RD-2 and submit them for review by INCITS.

Ms. Higginbottom thanked Dr. Deutsch for his presentation of the H2 annual report. The INCITS Standards Development Board accepted the H2 annual report (in030113) as presented at the February 2003 SDB meeting.

Reference: in030113

3.1.1.1 Secretariat Report Card for H2 (status of liaison, officers, training, unanswered calls, other administrative matters of note.)

As detailed in in030154, in December 2002 Dr. Kulkarni was appointed to another term as H2 International Representative and the H2 Chairman, Dr. Deutsch, must receive officer training by October 2003.

Reference: in030154 (H2 IR appointed December 2002 and H2 Chair due for training by October 2003)

3.1.1.2 H2 International Matters (offers to serve in International roles, requests for TAG assignments)

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.

3.1.1.3 Recommendations for Executive Board Consideration Related to H2

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.

3.1.2 Annual Report for Technical Committee J17 - Programming Language Prolog (J. Hodgson - J17 Chairman / D. Deutsch - Liaison) - Maintenance TC

(Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:00 - 3:30 PM)

Dr. Deutsch, the INCITS Liaison to J17, presented the J17 annual report (in030110) covering the period January 2002 to January 2003. J17 is responsible for the development of an international standard for the programming language Prolog that can also serve as the US standard. J17, a maintenance TC, serves as the US TAG to JTC 1/SC 22/WG 17.

ISO/IEC 13211-2 was published in June 2000. J17 has been in maintenance since November 2000.

Ms. Higginbottom thanked Dr. Deutsch for his presentation of the J17 annual report. Although it was noted that the J17 annual report had been prepared in the old SD-10 format, the INCITS Standards Development Board accepted the J17 annual report (in030110) as presented at the February 2003 SDB meeting.

Reference: in030110

3.1.2.1 Secretariat Report Card for J17 (status of liaison, officers, training, unanswered calls, other administrative matters of note.)

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.

3.1.2.2 J17 International Matters (offers to serve in International roles, requests for TAG assignments)

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.

3.1.3 Annual Report for Technical Committee J18 - Programming Language Rexx (B. Marks - J18 Chairman / R. Silletti - Liaison) - Maintenance TC

(Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:30 - 4:00 PM)

Mr. Silletti, the INCITS Liaison to J18, presented the J18 annual report (in030192) covering the period January 2002 to December 2002. J18 is responsible for the development of the standard for the programming language Rexx. J18 is in maintenance mode. 

ANSI X3.274 was published in 1996 and the errata document for ANSI X3.274 was published in 2002. The Rexx language has continued to develop, however, J18 does not regard the current language as suitable for standardization because that extended language is strongly supported by one provider and there are few potential alternative providers. J18 believes it likely that Rexx standardization activity will continue to decline in the future.

Ms. Higginbottom thanked Mr. Silletti for his presentation of the J18 annual report. Although it was noted that the J18 annual report had been prepared in the old SD-10 format, the INCITS Standards Development Board accepted the J18 annual report (in030192) as presented at the February 2003 SDB meeting.

Reference: in030192

3.1.3.1 Secretariat Report Card for J18 (status of liaison, officers, training, unanswered calls, other administrative matters of note.)

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.

3.1.3.2 Recommendations for Executive Board Consideration Related to J18

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.

3.1.4 Annual Report for Technical Committee R1 - Real-Time Computing Systems (R. Richards - R1 Chairman / R. Silletti - Liaison)

(Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:30 - 3:00 PM)

Mr. Silletti, the INCITS Liaison to R1, presented the R1 annual report (in030131) covering the period December 2001 to December 2002. R1 is responsible for the development of a real-time uniform driver interface (UDI) standard.

Because R1 operated with the minimum four paid members in 2002, the committee made the conscious decision to delay processing work in the development of the UDI standard and focused on writing and presenting papers on the committee's work to solicit participation in the process. 

US Department of Defense funding for the R1 technical editor may cease in early 2003; consequently, replacement funding is being sought.

Action Item:  The Secretariat will get clarification on the status of the Lockheed Martin representative on R1 as the annual report indicates that the representative is also the project editor being funded by the US DoD. 

The Standards Development Board agreed that the annexes should be placed at the end of the report and that the SD-10 text on page 8 (above item 9) should be removed as should clause E.5 related to certification and testing.

Action Item:  Mr. Silletti, the SDB Liaison to R1, will assist the R1 Chairman in revising the R1 annual report as requested for acceptance at the April 2003 Standards Development Board meeting.  

Action Item:  Mr. Silletti, the SDB Liaison to R1, will contact the R1 Chairman to determine if there has been reciprocal contact by The Open Group as a result of the R1 Chairman's presentation at an The Open Group meeting.

Ms. Higginbottom thanked Mr. Silletti for his presentation of the R1 annual report. The INCITS Standards Development Board will consider acceptance of the revised R1 annual report at the April 2003 SDB meeting.

Reference: in030131

3.1.4.1 Secretariat Report Card for R1 (status of liaison, officers, training, unanswered calls, other administrative matters of note.)

As detailed in in030154 , the R1 Chairman, Mr. Richards, must receive officer training by October 2003.

Reference: in030154 (R1 Chair due for training by October 2003)

3.1.4.2 Recommendations for Executive Board Consideration Related to R1

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.

3.1.5 Annual Report for Technical Committee T13 - I/O Interface - AT Attachment (P. McLean - T13 Chairman / J. Hill - Liaison)

(Monday, February 10, 2003 3:30 - 4:00 PM)

Mr. McLean, the T13 Chairman, presented the T13 annual report covering the period March 2002 to January 2003 (in030083). T13 is responsible for all interface standards relating to the AT Attachment (ATA) storage interface utilized as the hard disk drive, CD and DVD interface on most personal and mobile computers today.

Mr. McLean reported that in addition to six published standards, two published technical reports and three draft standards in development, during this period T13 initiated one new project, two new standards were published and one published standard was withdrawn. T13 ended this period with 21 voting members. Since the ATA interface is contained entirely within the host computer enclosure and does not provide an external interface, T13 does not participate in the international standards process.

T13 worked with the Consumer Hard Disk Drive Working Group of IDEMA Japan to modify the Audio/Visual commands in the ATA/ATAPI-7 draft to meet the needs of the consumer product companies. In addition, T13 convinced the Serial ATA consortium to forward their Serial ATA 1.0 specification to T13 for inclusion in the ATA/ATAPI standards.

Mr. McLean reported that the inclusion of Serial ATA in the ATA/ATAPI-7 (1532D) project will cause a challenge in the timely progression of the project. However, it is believed that having this published in an ANSI standard as soon as possible is worth the effort. It is believed that no future of the parallel ATA physical interface will be undertaken. The serial physical interface will evolve in both speed and functionality over the next ten years.

Mr. McLean noted that he was being laid off effective April 5, 2003.  He was exploring his options, and his continuation as Chairman was uncertain.  Mr. McLean believed that there would not be a lack of candidates if he were to resign as T13 Chairman.

The Standards Development Board expressed thanks for Mr. McLean's exemplary leadership of T13 by acclimation.

Ms. Higginbottom thanked Mr. McLean for his presentation of the T13 annual report. The INCITS Standards Development Board accepted the T13 annual report (in030083) as presented at the February 2003 SDB meeting.

Reference: in030083

3.1.5.1 Secretariat Report Card for T13 (status of liaison, officers, training, unanswered calls, other administrative matters of note.)

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.

3.1.5.2 Recommendations for Executive Board Consideration Related to T13

No matters were addressed under this agenda item.