Meeting Minutes

INCITS TC V2 Plenary Meeting #22

November 20-21, 2006

Gaithersburg, MD

 

 

1         Opening remarks and introductions (LaPlant)

Chair Bill LaPlant convened the meeting on 2006-11-20 at 1:10pm CT. He introduced himself as

Chair, and thanked TRACE for hosting the meeting facilities.

1.1        Meeting guidelines (Anti-Trust)

The Chair stated that the meeting was operating under INCITS procedures, and called special attention to the ANSI patent policies and the INCITS antitrust policies (http://www.incits.org/inatrust.htm).  The Chair noted that the INCITS Antitrust Guidelines applied to this committee meeting, and that it was the responsibility of all attendees, and not just the Officers, to ensure that the Guidelines are followed, and to terminate discussions if they are not.

1.2        Meeting Documents

The Chair noted that meeting documents are obtainable from V2’s email reflector.  The agenda and meeting documents were posted in the required time frame.

 

1.3        Self-introductions

Gregg Vanderheiden introduced himself as vice-chair and Charles Sheppard introduced himself as acting secretary for this meeting. Members introduced themselves.

2         Approval of the Agenda (LaPlant)

An electronic version of the agenda, document V2/06-0002, and supporting documents were accessible via the technical committee (TC) web site. The chair presented the agenda. It was moved by Gregg Vanderheiden and seconded by Sarma Danturthi that the agenda be approved as posted. The motion passed by unanimous consent.

3         Attendance and Membership (LaPlant)

3.1        Gaining and Losing Voting Membership

Information on how membership is gained, maintained, and lost in any INCITS Technical Committee or Task Group may be found at www.incits.org/rd2/main.htm.  The attendance list for this meeting is included below.

3.2        Changes in representation since last meeting

No changes in representation since last meeting.

3.3        New voting memberships

No new voting memberships.  Marquette University will re-gain membership at the next V2 meeting.

3.4        New advisory memberships

No new advisory memberships.

3.5        Voting memberships resigned

No organization has resigned their membership recently.

3.6        Voting memberships in jeopardy for attendance

Nobody is in jeopardy for attendance.

3.7        Voting memberships in jeopardy for letter ballots

Nobody is in jeopardy for letter ballots.

3.8        Voting memberships in jeopardy for fees

Nobody is in jeopardy for fees.

3.9        Membership for this meeting

Based on the above information, the total voting membership is 5 effective at the start of this meeting.  The complete list of members (both voting and advisory) is attached to the end of these minutes.

 

The attendance at this meeting is as follows:

 

Organization Name

Representative

Membership Class (P, A, AA, L)

FSG

Bill LaPlant

Principle

NIST

Charles Sheppard

Alternate

Wireless RERC

Jeremy Johnson

Alternate

Wireless RERC

Ed Price

Principle

Marquette University

Sarma Danturthi

Alternate

Trace

Al Gilman

Observer

Marquette University

Jack Winters

Principle

Trace

Gottfried Zimmermann

Alternate and IR

Trace

Gregg Vanderheiden

Principle

MERL

Chuck Rich

Principle

 

4         Approval of Minutes of Meetings #20 and #21 (Sheppard)

The minutes of TC Meeting #20 (document, V2/05-0078) on August 18-19, 2005 were reviewed. No issues were raised.

 

Motion (Vanderheiden moved, Price seconded): To approve the minutes of meeting #20 as amended. The motion was approved by unanimous consent.

 

The minutes of TC Meeting #21 (document, V2/06-0003) on August 14, 2006 were reviewed. No issues were raised.

 

Motion (Vanderheiden moved, Price seconded): To approve the draft minutes of meeting #21.

The motion was approved by unanimous consent.

 

5         Review of action items (Sheppard)

http://www.itl.nist.gov/twiki/bin/view/NCITSV2/ActionItems

 

ACTION ITEM 04-029 (LaPlant): set up a Twiki page to collect bullets on security issues: Ongoing.

 

ACTION ITEM 04-048 (LaPlant): Send letter to Podio appointing Sheppard liaison to INCITS-M1: Ongoing.

 

Gilman informs that there are activities going on in M1 that affect V2.  LaPlant informs the INCITS Study Group on Accessibility, http://www.incits.org/tc_home/ia.htm.  Sheppard says he won’t have time to follow this liaison.  Gilman proposes to ask Sajka if she can be the liaison to M1.

 

Motion (Zimmermann moved, Price seconded): V2 establish a liaison with the INCITS Study Group on Accessibility. 

Unanimously approved.

 

ACTION ITEM 04-059 (LaPlant): Appoint Gregg Vanderheiden as liaison to URC Consortium.  Ongoing.

6         Administrative Reports

6.1        Chair (LaPlant)

6.2        Vice Chair (Vanderheiden)

6.3        International Representative (Zimmermann)

New projects being prepared in SC35.  Next year will be important for V2 because ISO/IEC 24752 will likely be published.

6.4        Secretary (Sheppard)

6.5        Ad-hoc V2a (Zimmermann)

Meetings by telecons.

7         Related Activities

7.1        Liaison Reports

7.1.1          INCITS (Gaskill)

Not present.

7.1.2          INCITS V-36 (LaPlant)

Nothing to report.

7.1.3          ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 25 WG 1 (Wacks)

Not present.

7.1.4          ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC36 Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training (LaPlant)

Nothing to report.

7.1.5          Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) (Zimmermann)

Trace is member of CEA, and entitled to vote.  Good platform for exchange with industry.  URCC will have meetings at CES.

7.1.6          Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) (Nevile)

Not present.  Gilman informs that IMS modules have been developed that are now in synch with SC36 work.

7.1.7          URC Consortium (Vanderheiden)

A number of new members, including Ishak Kang from Vox UI.  Beginning to see a change in industry.  A new strategy is targeting the installer market.  Meetings with industry at CES, also session on ease of use and user interface standards, http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/conferences/search/session_detail.asp?ID_session=IA11.   Going to formalize the URCC.

7.2        Other Updates

7.2.1          Web Accessibility Initiative (Gilman)

PF group is developing documents around Web 2.0 applications (ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications).

7.2.2          Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Forum (Zimmermann)

Developing Remote Access.  UPnP AV 2.0 is available.

7.2.3          INCITS L8 Metadata (Sheppard)

Nothing to report.

7.2.4          NIST Smart Space (Sheppard)

On hold at the moment.  There may be a chance of resurrecting it in the future.

7.2.5          INCITS M1 Biometrics (Sheppard)

Nothing to report.

7.2.6          JTC1 SC37 Biometrics (Sheppard)

Looking at accessibility issues for visually impaired people with regard to airport security systems and access to government facilities.

7.2.7          Georgia Tech (Johnson)

RERC has been refunded.  Development should resume soon – not yet started implementing changes for ISO version.  Looking into using V2 functionality for the kitchen  of the AwareHome project at GT.

7.2.8          Marquette (Danturthi)

Trying to push V2 standard to medical device market. 

7.2.9          Trace (Zimmermann)

Trace URC SDK 3.2 available, and URC Simulation Environment 3.2.  Flash URC 3.2 soon to be released.  Also working on UCH, and demos for CES.

 

LaPlant raises the point about the ISO/IEC standard replacing the ANSI standards.  There could be an issue if there are commercial implementations based on ANSI.  But nobody is aware of any.

7.2.10      I2home (Zimmermann)

www.i2home.org has started in Sep. for 3 years (European project).

8         Working Session on International Projects (Zimmermann)

See international tickler.

8.1        ISO/IEC 24752, Universal Remote Console

Zimmermann will prepare a draft for FDIS vote.

8.2        ISO/IEC 24756, Framework for specifying a common access profile (CAP) of needs and capabilities of users, systems, and their environments

We need to determine the U.S. vote for the FCD ballot.

8.3        New international work in SC35 WG6 & WG7

We need to discuss our potential involvement. See resolutions 21-25 of SC35 meeting in Korea.

 

Discussion: V2 should focus on accessibility in SC35, but no money and time for travel. 

8.4        U.S. Delegation for next SC35 meeting, Feb. 19-23, 2007

Motion (Vanderheiden moved, Sheppard seconded): V2 requests that Dr. Zimmermann be appointed HoD to represent the U.S. in the SC35 plenary meeting, including meetings of working groups 6, 7 and 8, on Feb. 19-23, 2007, in Paris, France.

 

Motion passed with 5-0-0-0 (yes-no-abstain-not present).

9         INCITS Training

Barbara Bennett will send training material to the V2 members prior to the meeting.  V2 members are requested to read through the material and direct any questions to Barbara Bennett, who will answer the questions in the next V2 meeting (#23).

10    Future Meeting Schedule

The next TC meeting (#23) will be held by phone on 2006-12-21 at 9:00am-1:00pm ET.

1         Action Items

ACTION ITEM: Gottfried to have IMS people review CEA-2033 CPP.

ACTION ITEM: Jack Winters to review FCD 24756, http://www.itl.nist.gov/twiki/bin/view/NCITSV2/VoteOnFCD24756IssuedOct2006).

ACTION ITEM: Gilman and Zimmermann to provide comments on proposed icon structure (see resolution 25 of Korea meeting).

ACTION ITEM: Review training material sent to work-def reflector on Oct. 23.  Questions to be addressed to Barbara Bennett, INCITS, bbennett@itic.org.

ACTION ITEM: LaPlant to send invitation for meeting #23.

2         Adjournment

Vanderheiden moved and Sheppard seconded to adjourn at 3:42pm CT. The motion

passed by unanimous consent.