Meeting called to order 8:30 May 3, 2004 

Attendance: 

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--aa--aaaa-a----------------- Dennis Brophy 
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The chair directed everone's attention to
http://www.verilog.com/IEEEVerilog.html where a link to the IEEE
policy is prominent.

Review of the minutes of the last ETF meeting (April 5, 2004).
Change Shalom's comments to Comments from Shalom's mail.
Ron moves that we accept the minutes of the meeting.  Charles
seconds.  No opposed.  Shalom, Tom abstain.  Passes.

Issues:

Generate proposal:  Jason is sending the Framemaker source to 
Shalom. Shalom will update the proposal to reflect the 
changes to date.  

Shalom is confused by Cliff's example in 12.4.2 where it uses an
and gate.  He will work on addressing the comment as he updates
the proposa, perhaps by changing the and gate into a nand.

Shalom believes that he can have the updates to the proposal by 
the end of the week.  If Karen has a proposal by Monday next week,
she will open a ballot on the proposal hopefully reaching quorum
by Friday next week so we can discuss the proposal in the 1364 
meeting.

Jason is continuing to work on section 12.2.8 on elaboration as 
a separate issue.

ETF proposals:
Issue 16:
Shalom will add language to the proposal that indicates that
the only lexical token allowed on the line with a 'line
directive is white space.

Issue 237:
Shalom is still working on it.

Issue 428:
Brad to complete.

Issue 541:
Shalom moves that we accept the proposal.  Steve seconds.
No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.

Issue 551:
Steven Sharp moves that we accept the proposal.  Shalom
seconds.  No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.

Issue 557:
Shalom moves that we accept the proposal.  No second.

Steven will look at the issue before the next meeting.

Issue 563:
Shalom moves that we accept the proposal.  Charles seconds.
No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.

Issue 564:
Shalom moves that we accept the proposal.  Brad seconds.
No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.

Issue 575:
17.6, "Stochastic analysis tasks", In the sentence, 

"This clause describes a set of system tasks and functions 
that manage queues and generate random numbers with specific 
distributions." 

DELETE the words "and generate random numbers with specific 
distributions." 

Also, since $q_full is a function, not a task, there should 
be no semicolon at the end of the line 

"$q_full (q_id, status) ;" 


PROPOSAL: 

Delete the semicolon at the end of the $q_full line. 

Steven Sharp moves that we accept this proposal.  Shalom 
seconds.  No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.

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Open Action Items:
(05/03/04) 'line directive
Shalom to update the proposal.

(11/18/02) generate proposal for 17, 113, 255.
Shalom to update current proposal.

(12/1/03) 22:  There is no concensus to a fix, so we will leave
this issue alone until there is one.

(12/1/03) 33:  Mike MacNamera to make a proposal.

(11/18/02) Steven and committee to return with an @* proposal for
        issues 82, 84
        Group has agreement on some of the more contentious
        issues.

(11/18/02) Evaluating TBD Errata.  The tasks are:

    Shalom
         170 formatting of bnf non-terminals

(11/4/02) Steven will proposing a wording to fix 172.  It will
        be a significant rewrite.
        Partially rewritten through the generate proposal.  More
	work will remain after the generate proposal is ready.

(11/18/02) 198, 254, 58, 318: Shalom

(7/14/03) 204: James volunteered to drive

        He needs input on what the simulators do.  There are some
        complex issues here dealing with port collapsing and
        inout.
        That is covered by issue 54.

        As to the exact issue in 204, how about adding examples
        indicating that examples 2, 3, 4 are illegal?  James will

        do that.

        He has not written this up yet.  Shalom suggested that
        this and 7 other errata be evalutated together.  All of
        the issues are Brad's (filed by him?)  He does not want
        to
        drive.  James will develop a proposal for all of them
        including 204.  204, 227, 233, 234, 292, 332, 345, 452,
        486(?).

(2/10/03)  Issue 237:   SV-BC19-41, SV-BC19-42
        Dave Roberts and Shalom to fix the proposal expanding the
        BNF and creating language to support it.

        Is waiting on Shalom to do some experiments and come up 
	with a proposal based on the discussion of the 2/8/04 
	meeting.

(7/14/03) 245: Shalom
(7/14/03) 247: May be partially covered by generate proposal

(10/06/03) 428: Brad and Shalom

(3/8/04) 541:  Shalom to check the proposal
Done.

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The meeting adjourned a little after 10:30 Pacific time with
Steven Sharp's movement.