Minutes of Meeting # 92

18 December 2002

Teleconference

Participants

Paul Croll, Chair

Kathy Land, Secretary

Ted Byrne

Mike Conrad

Scott Duncan

Dennis Lawrence

Clair Lohr

Alan Nikora

Jim Moore

Norm Schneidewind

David Schultz

Agenda Items

Agenda attached.

Status Reports

Management Board [Schultz]

PAR for software naming recommended practice needed by various DoD and commercial communities.

Discussion on other standards issues deferred until next meeting.

Transfer of ASTM Standards

Review of standards set is not complete. Dennis Lawrence continuing to review these standards. Consider adopting the training standard.

No formal agreement with ASTM exists but enough interest exists to establish a formal relationship to transfer these standards.

Interpretation Policy

Balloting is open through the 25^th of this month. Following the close of balloting a revision will be presented that will address any concerns.

Status Report attached.

SC7 Liaison [Moore]

Vocabulary effort still requires closure

SESC Web Page [Henley]

No issues for discussion.

Planning Group on New Markets for Standards [Schneidewind]

Norm would like to put a thesis student to work on this in the near future. Scott Duncan is still forming a core group of individuals for possible work on a set of recommended practices.

Stakeholder Advisory Group/User Outreach [Lohr/Land]

Claire sent a test message to members of the Management Board. Claire is eliciting the contribution of email addresses for outreach effort. Claire should contact John Daniel at (202) 371- 0101 or jw.daniel@computer.org for the current SESC membership list or computer society general membership list.

Jim Moore suggested bringing this outreach idea to the SAB. Kathy Land will present this at the February SAB meeting.

Book Series [Fujii]

Meeting scheduled for the 20-21 Jan in Los Alamitos, CA to meet with Editorial Board, publisher, and IEEE staff. Agenda will be forwarded when it is finalized. Jim Moore is interested in learning more about the business case and will inquire at this next meeting.

STC 2003 [Croll]

The arrangements for the Bill Thayer CSDP tutorial have been finalized.

To see what is being offered visit: http://www.stc-online.org/

Winter Meeting Planning

The MB to meet the afternoon Feb 19^th, ExCom to Meet 20-21 February at the Bahia Resort, Mission Bay – San Diego, CA.

SESC Archives

Procedure for Archivist [Lawrence]

Dennis' Procedure for Archivist has been circulated only for comment, not for vote. We'll ballot this procedure closure has been reached on the Interpretation procedure (#22).

Action Items

Status and Discussion [Croll/Land]

Action items attached.

Next Telecon, Wednesday, January 15^th