in050594


From: Robinson, Gary
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:54 AM
To: Bennett, Barbara
Cc: Nelson, Terry
Subject: RE: Notification of an Objection raised by Panasonic Technologies Inc. on RapidIO(TM)'s request for INCITS EB Approval of a Project Proposal for a New Fast-Track Standard

Response from rapidIO:

I do not know how to respond to the comment from Panasonic.

The project proposal complies with the RD2 Section 5.9. It falls within the Scope of INCITS and T11 has voted to support the project.

The issue of finances for a Fast Track process are beyond my ability as a project proposer to answer. This is the purview of INCITS EB.

The latest INCITS approved version of the MoU have been signed by the appropriate parties.


Gary S. Robinson

RapidIO Steering Committee Member


From RD-2

5.9 INCITS Fast Track Process

As an Accredited Standards Committee, INCITS provides procedures to review for approval as an American National Standard, standards within its scope developed and approved by an organization not accredited by ANSI for processing them directly.

An organization that has developed a candidate standard may request INCITS processing of that candidate standard. When such initiative is being considered within INCITS (the subject of a project proposal) or a preliminary inquiry is made by the sponsor, a proposal describing the candidate standard, its purpose, and scope is sent to the INCITS Secretariat for distribution to the Executive Board.

The INCITS Secretariat issues a call for comments on the proposal and INCITS members are asked to assess the proposal with respect to the following criteria:

If no objections are raised during this review, the developer will then be invited to submit the following:
  1. Candidate standard.
  2. Memorandum of understanding, that may be negotiated by the INCITS Secretariat on behalf of INCITS, detailing: agreement to respond and participate in accordance with Milestone 5 (Section 5.1.5); agreement regarding availability and distribution of copies for public review and balloting; agreement for maintenance responsibility in accordance with ANSI procedures; agreement that interpretations shall be accomplished in accordance with INCITS procedures and agreement that participation in further processing of the document be open to all directly and materially affected interests .
  3. Any other documentation the developer feels is relevant.

If objections are raised, the INCITS Secretariat will distribute those objections to the Executive Board and the proposer. The organization submitting the candidate standard will be required to respond to the objections raised in addition to the other documentation specified above. The entire package will be submitted to the Executive Board for approval.

Upon receipt, the Executive Board votes, in accordance with Section 4.4, to accept the proposal and initiate a public review. Upon approval, the INCITS Secretariat shall assign a liaison project number, and processing commences at Milestone 5 (Section 5.1.5), with the developer fulfilling the obligations of a TC.

The INCITS Secretariat will explicitly notify the TC chairs and encourage them to notify their committee of the candidate standard's public review period. The Secretariat's notification will include the results of the Executive Board vote and comments received during the Executive Board vote.

At 6/30/2005 05:05 PM, you wrote:
Dear Members -
 
RapidIO(TM) requested the INCITS EB to review its proposal for a New Fast-Track Standard on Information technology - RapidIO(TM) Interconnect Specification (version 1.3).
 
The request was made in document, in050479, (http://www.incits.org/archive/2005/in050479/in050479.htm) and the review period was from June 22, 2005 to June 29, 2005.
 
During the seven-day period, an objection was received from Panasonic Technologies Inc. on June 27, 2005.
 
The objection may be found in document, in050587, (http://www.incits.org/archive/2005/in050587/in050587.htm).

RapidIO(TM) has fourteen days to respond to the objections raised. The response deadline is July 14, 2005.
 
Regards -
 

Barbara Bennett
Associate Manager, Standards Operations
INCITS/Information Technology Industry Council
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