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SISO SAC Report to IEEE CS SAB

November 3, 2005Philadelphia, PA

Katherine L. Morse, Ph.D., SAIC

morsek@saic.com

858-826-6728

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Standards Status

• HLA Rules, Interface Specification, and Object Model Template (IEEE 1516, 1516.1, 1516.2)• Currently resolving second round of comments

• Considering beginning IEEE 1516.3 revision in 2006

• Formed PDG to merge 1278.1 and 1278.1a (DIS), and to correct deficiencies identified since previous reaffirmation

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Organizational Resolution• Acceptance of SISO P&P by AudCom

• AudCom responded with 3 comments• SAC concurred with two and slightly modified one• Approved P&P addressing comments forwarded to

AudCom September 21• No response

• SA BoG Policy on business model for software standards• Eagerly awaiting results of promising

conversation between LTSC chair and IEEE legal staff re Creative Commons license

• Text and link on Working Group Areas corrected by IEEE• Then SISO changed its entire web portal, so it

got broken again• Link should be http://www.sisostds.org/index.php?

tg=articles&idx=More&topics=18&article=39

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Interpretations Committees• From the Standards Companion:

• “There is a requirement for balance in membership; it's probably best to follow the principles of balance that were used in balloting to establish balance in interpretations groups. Interpretations also have to be balloted in the Sponsor. But because this process doesn't meet the rules for approval of changes that are applied to an IEEE ballot, an interpretation cannot change the meaning of a document.”

• Does this mean we have to reconstitute a ballot group for interpretations?

• Is balanced membership guidance or a requirement? The language is inconsistent.