Meeting Minutes
INCITS TC V2 Plenary Meeting #22
November 20-21, 2006
Gaithersburg, MD
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.
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.
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.
Gregg Vanderheiden introduced himself as vice-chair and Charles Sheppard introduced himself as acting secretary for this meeting. Members introduced themselves.
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.
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.
No changes in representation since last meeting.
No new voting memberships. Marquette University will re-gain membership at the next V2 meeting.
No new advisory memberships.
No organization has resigned their membership recently.
Nobody is in jeopardy for attendance.
Nobody is in jeopardy for letter ballots.
Nobody is in jeopardy for fees.
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 |
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.
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.
New projects being prepared in SC35. Next year will be important for V2 because ISO/IEC 24752 will likely be published.
Meetings by telecons.
Not present.
Nothing to report.
Not present.
Nothing to report.
Trace is member of CEA, and entitled to vote. Good platform for exchange with industry. URCC will have meetings at CES.
Not present. Gilman informs that IMS modules have been developed that are now in synch with SC36 work.
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.
PF group is developing documents around Web 2.0 applications (ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications).
Developing Remote Access. UPnP AV 2.0 is available.
Nothing to report.
On hold at the moment. There may be a chance of resurrecting it in the future.
Nothing to report.
Looking at accessibility issues for visually impaired people with regard to airport security systems and access to government facilities.
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.
Trying to push V2 standard to medical device market.
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.
www.i2home.org has started in Sep. for 3 years (European project).
Zimmermann will prepare a draft for FDIS vote.
We need to determine the U.S. vote for the FCD ballot.
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.
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).
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).
The next TC meeting (#23) will be held by phone on 2006-12-21 at 9:00am-1:00pm ET.
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.
Vanderheiden moved and Sheppard seconded to adjourn at 3:42pm CT. The motion
passed by unanimous consent.