Stabilized Standards Ad Hoc Subcommittee Report IEEE Standards Board

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Stabilized Standards Ad Hoc Subcommittee
ReportIEEE Standards Board

• Bob Davis/Ad Hoc
• 8 June 2006

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Ad Hoc Committee Membership

• David Law
• Gary Robinson
• Dennis Brophy
• Ted Byrne
• Daleep Mohla

• Ron Peterson
• Rich Hulett
• Mark Halpin
• Claire Topp
• Bob Grow
• Bob Davis

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Goal

• To make Stabilized Standards category in the IEEE
  Standards Association process aligned with the
  ANSI Essential Requirements.

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Ad Hoc Meetings

• Four meetings were held
• 5 April, 26 April and 17 May, 31 May 2006
• New ANSI ExSC Stabilized ANS proposal
• G. Robinson report
• Major Discussion topics
• Sitting Balloting body who and how qualified
• Last Resort Sponsor and Balloting Body after
  Sponsor
• Sitting Balloting Body vs SASB
• What is being voted on State of Art vs Good
  for public
• Which SASB Committee to do work

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Proposal

• Work with an Established SASB Sub-committee such
  as AudCom
• Define the Stabilized Category and process per
  current SASB OpsMan section 9.3.
• Build PAR Process for Stabilized and Reaffirmed
• Build Checklist for PAR and approval
• Define Sponsor of Last Resort
• Define Sitting Balloting Body of last resort

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Proposal (cont)

• In order for a candidate standard to be eligible
  to be maintained as a stabilized standard it must
  address mature technology or practices, and as a
  result, be unlikely to require revision.  In
  addition, the standard must be required for use
  in connection with existing implementations or
  for reference purposes.
• In terms of length of time as an ANS, to be
  eligible for stabilization, an ANS has to be
• 1) reaffirmed at least once and
• 2) at least 10 years have passed since the
  approval or last revision of the standard as an
  ANS.

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Proposal (cont)

• The IEEE SA must process the proposed Stabilized
  standard in accordance with its accredited
  procedures.  A consensus body is to be involved
  in the decision to maintain the standard as a
  "stabilized" ANS.
• A standard that is maintained as a stabilized ANS
  shall include a clear statement of the intent to
  consider requests for change and information on
  the submittal of such requests. 

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Stabilization Process

• Proposal for Stabilization (via PAR)
• Sponsor
• Sponsor of Last Resort SASB/STBZCom, (if
  Sponsor cannot be found)
• Interested Party
• Review Criteria per ANSI guidelines
• Publish/Call for a Public Comment period
• Active solicitation of working group member, if
  found.
• Published Public Comment Period ANSI/IEEE pubs
  press release
• Consensus Balloting Body
• Sponsor balloting body
• Balloting Body of Last Resort The Sitting
  Stabilization Balloting Body
• SASB sub-committee recommendation to SASB for
  approval
• Revisit per ANSI rules for Stabilized ANS

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Next Steps for Stabilized Standards

• Get tentative approval from SASB to proceed
• Review OpMan process
• Align with ANSI Stabilized ANS
• Compose ProCom changes if any
• Prepare Initial Stabilized candidates from
  sponsors
• Push the Initial Candidates through process to
• IEEE Stabilized Standard/ANSI Stabilized ANS