Minutes of BTF Meeting August 25, 2003

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    Minutes of BTF Meeting August 25, 2003

    Meeting started at 10:45 Pacific Time

    In attendance:
            Steven Sharp
            Shalom Bresticker
            Mehdi Mohtashemi
            Dennis Brophy
            Kurt Baty
            Brad Pierce
            Yong Xiao (for Karen Pieper)
            Don Mills
            Ennis Hawk
            Dave Rich
            Francoise Martinolle
            Jay Lawrence
            Michael McNamara
            Alec Stanculescu
            Tom Fitzpatrick

    Brad Pierce moves that we accept the minutes from the Aug 11, 2003 meeting.
    Jay seconds. Nobody opposes. Nobody abstains. Passes.

    Jay Lawrence gave status of Extensions Guideline group. They did not
    meet last week. They will try to get mission statement settled by email
    and have it ready for next BTF meeting.

    Kurt moves that we form the prioritization subgroup that we tried to
    form at the last meeting. Mac will provide the description of the
    charter from the motion made at the preceding VSG meeting. Brad seconds.
    Nobody opposes, nobody abstains, passes.

    Wording inserted from Mac's VSG minutes:
      "Kurt Baty proposed that we form a Coordination Task Force
       to sort through donations and enhancement by priority, impact, and
       task force, potentially proposing new tasks forces; and pass the
       work and suggested order to the other tasks forces. "

    Kurt nominates Alec Stanculescu as chair. There are no other nominations.
    Nobody opposes, nobody abstains, passes.

    Alec speaks on his intentions for the subgroup, to solicit volunteers.
    Jay, Mac and Francoise volunteer. During solicitation, it is noted that
    Jay provides the communication with EGG that Alec mentioned needing, and
    Francoise provides PLI expertise. This appears to provide an adequate
    group for the task. Alec will start discussion via email, using the BTF
    list to establish initial contact.

    A question from a new member about getting on the BTF mailing list was
    answered.

    Alec asked about enhancement list, and was told that they appear with
    errata at www.boyd.com web page.

    Francoise asked about past enhancement requests that did not get into
    Verilog-2001. Shalom has already proposed going through those. Shalom
    and Mac will take action item to try to track down these past requests
    in mail archives.

    Ennis asked about procedure for donations. Some knowledgable attendees
    provided information. There was discussion of the situation if there
    was not clear ownership of the donated technology. Mac will take action
    item to track down legal issues and IEEE policies on this.

    Kurt asked for volunteers to help with a package proposal. Jay has
    already proposed something in this area. They will discuss this
    together.

    Mac proposes publicizing the list of proposals, partly to deal with
    potential legal issues. This would also solicit further proposals.
    Dennis expressed concerns that might politicize the process. After
    some time, the chair stopped discussion, since any publicizing would
    not be in the scope of the BTF.

    Dennis also expressed concerns that the actions of the BTF might
    affect existing support for Verilog-2001. After some confusing
    discussion, the chair concluded that Dennis was referring to revisions
    to the Verilog-2001 standard being made by the ETF. Since this does
    not fall into the scope of the BTF, the chair stopped discussion.

    The issue of possible donation of SystemVerilog was discussed again,
    with no action resulting.

    The meeting was adjourned at 11:45.

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