IEEE Software
Engineering Standards Committee (SESC)
Executive Committee
20 November 2002
Teleconference
Participants
Paul Croll, Chair
Kathy Land, Secretary
Ted Byrne
Mike Conrad
Scott Duncan
Mark Henley
Dennis Lawrence
Jim Moore
Norm Schneidewind
David Schultz
Robert Shillato
Carl Singer
Agenda attached.
Management Board [Schultz]
830-1998 (June 25): Paul is chairing a study group. The group is in formation phase and the current PAR has been withdrawn. The standard does not expire until next year. Need to identify working group chair, revise a PAR, and then select working group members.
982.1-1998 (June 9): Work on the revision is progressing, but Norm isn't ready yet to form a balloting group. Angela has granted us an extension through 12/31/02. She has assured Norm that as long as he is making progress, RevCom will grant him an extension pass this date. .
1008-1987 (Reaff Dec 2 1993): Reaffirmation is on RevCom December 2002 agenda.
1012-1998 (March 9): Roger has agreed to chair the WG for the revision. We've assured him that the March 2003 expiration date will not be a concern -- that RevCom will grant an extension.
1045-1992 (Sept. 17): Reaffirmation is on December 2002 RevCom agenda.
1061-1998 (Dec. 8): Resolution of negative ballots from recirculation is stalled; Norm is very busy and could use some help. He needs someone who understands metrics to help resolve negative comments. Paul agreed to contact Pete Baxter for this.
1074-1997 (Dec. 9): Work is progressing.
1219-1998 (June 25): Look at extension next year until SC7 is ready to revise ISO/IEC 14764 and consider joint development.
1228-1994 (March 17): Reaffirmation is on RevCom's December 2002 agenda.
1233-1998 (Apr 17): Reaffirmation approved by RevCom Sept. 2002. Study group is exploring integration with 830.
1320.1-1998 (June 25): ExCom agreed to reaffirm.
1320.2-1998 (June 25): Same as 1320.1.
1362 – Proposal to merge this with 830 and 1233 joint revision. Suggestion was made that Ted Byrne contact D. Thayer to review content transfer to new standard.
1462-1998 (March 19): ExCom agreed to reaffirm, but will hold off on this until action required.
1465-1998 (June 25): ExCom agreed to request an extension until we can look at the results of the current revision of ISO/IEC 12219. Paul will request this when it is due to expire.
1490-1998 (June 25): High priority. ExCom has agreed to readopt the new version of this.
12207.1-1996 (April): Expires December 2002. We have asked for a 1-year extension, to decide on a course of action. We intend to have a PAR in place before the end of 2003.
12207.2-1997 (April 1998): We may want to ask for an extension until it's time for a revision.
Interpretation of SESC Standards, ready for circulation for vote to ExCom.
[Byrne] Suggests that SESC have a standard way of balloting whether standards should be revised or reaffirmed.
Status
Report attached.
SC7 Liaison [Moore]
SC7 / WG7 approved a plan which was prepared by Terry Doran for the 1220 update. SESC will do first revision following standard processes.
Jim has been appointed as Vice President for Standards Activities, this also makes him the Chair of Standards Activities Board. Congratulations to Jim on this appointment!
The work in support of the IEEE 2001 Internet best practices standard will be transferred.
Kathy Land reported SESC willingness to accept development of this standard at the November 5 SAB meeting.
Promoted a resolution to clarify acceptance of P1541. "That SAB supports promotion of P1541 to full use standards status, contingent upon the standards board not mandating that IEEE Standards to use the newly defined terms. Such as kibis and mibis (kilo binary and mega binary)."
Sponsor groups must present a document to the SAB that discusses their P&P and how they deviate from the SAB P&P. This is something SESC MB should address in the next face-to-face.
Reminder for photographs for the web site to those members of the Board or ExCom who have not submitted them.
Still working the details of the password protected area trying to resolve issues that crop up.
There is a help link that links to FAQ page with no content. Requests help from ExCom members for content for this area.
Contact area lists P. Croll as only contact. This may be redundant to the existing newly created ExCom and MB pages. Mark requests email discussion to resolve this by either adding content or page removal.
CMMI Mapping [Croll/Jarzombek]
Paul has resolved all licensing issues and now has a copy of the tool. He will define a process for the mapping activities. Also still need to address the binning issue, but this lack of binning will not prohibit the effort from moving forward. Paul will distribute the tool after figuring out how best to use it to support the mapping process. We will need to determine who to involve, which standards to map and in what order the standards are to be mapped.
Planning Group on New Markets for Standards
[Schneidewind]
No news to report.
No news to report.
The Software Engineering Standards Book Series meeting was held at the Hyatt
Harborside in Boston, MA on 5-6 November 2002. The attendees were:
1) Mark Christensen,
2) Deborah Plummer,
3) Ann Jacobs,
4) Tom Fink,
5) Bill Hetzel,
6) Paul Croll,
7) Leonard Tripp,
8) Richard Thayer,
9) Linda Shafer, and
10) Roger Fujii.
On 6 November, the Wiley representatives (Janet Bailey, et al) were in attendance.
A summary of the meeting follows:
* Reaffirmed the goals and objectives of the book series
* Reviewed the outline of the book series and the format desired for each book
* Reviewed the proposed authors for each book
o Roadmap - James Moore
o Life Cycle Processes - James Moore
o Project Management - Richard Thayer
o Software Quality Assurance - John Horch
o Software Requirements - Linda Shafer
o Software Verification and Validation - Roger Fujii
o Software Maintenance - Paul Croll
o Software Testing - Bill Hetzel
o Software Reuse - Carma McClure
* Revised the wording in the IEEE author agreements regarding "derivative works", "competitive works", and clarified the electronic media products.
The goal is still three books per calendar year. The character of the series has changed from a simple replacement of the guides associated with standards, to a broader treatment of the subject area that will still speak to 12207 and other standards.
Discussion ensued as to the possibility of resurrecting some form of the old ‘guides’ that were associated with many of the standards and how to manage this process. This will be put on the February meeting agenda.
Track has been approved, the items presented cover a full day of the conference, but the content was split over two days to avoid conflict with other presentations.
The certification program training and testing is also being offered at this conference.
To see what is being offered visit: http://www.stc-online.org/
Policy draft has been finalized and will be circulated for vote.
Action Item Status and Discussion [Croll/Land]
Action items attached.
DoD/Navy is looking for the development of software naming convention best practice. They have individuals ready to do the work and have developed a PAR. Paul will forward this PAR and a presentation that presents the issues.
Norm S. expressed praise for Claire’s working group website. Suggested that everyone visit the site: http://www.ieeestd829.org/
Wednesday, 18 December, 1 PM EDT.
The Board agreed to co-locate the next face-to-face meeting with the next meeting of the SAB in San Diego. The MB will meet the afternoon of February 19th, with ExCom following on the 20th and 21th. Specifics for reservations will follow.