VSO Meeting - Hyatt Regency

Long Beach, CA

Wednesday, Jan 17, and Thursday, Jan 18, 2007
Revision 0.2 (Jan 25, 2007)

	Subject	Presenter	Comments
	Call VSO meeting to order Introductions, Agenda Review Announcements, Minutes Approval	Elwood Parsons, VSO Chair	Elwood called the meeting to order and asked members to introduce themselves. The agenda was reviewed and accepted as presented. Elwood circulated several articles of interest to members.
	Standards Report	John Rynearson, Tech Dir, VITA	See presentation.
	Executive Director Report	Ray Alderman, Exec Dir, VITA	Ray discussed a new direction for Bus & Board for next year as it transitions to Critical Embedded Systems.
	Europe Report	Hermann Strass, Tech. Coordinator, VITA	See presentation.
	Roll Call Vote on proposed Ex Ante changes to VSO P&P	Elwood Parsons, VSO Chair	A motion was made to accept the changes to VITA standards policy to provide for ex ante patent terms disclosure. The motion was seconded. After discussion a role call vote was conducted of eligible voters. The results of the role call were 35 voting in favor, 2 voting against, 2 voting to abstain, and 12 recorded as not present. The motion passed. Click here for record of roll call vote. Click here for Motorola position statement regarding ex ante vote.
	*** BREAK ***
	USM Proposal	Manfred Schmitz, MEN	See presentation.
	ESM Express	Manfred Schmitz, MEN	See presentation. Manfred presented a concept for system on module especially designed for harsh environments.
	Working Group Reports	(10 Minutes Each)
	VITA 17.2, 10 Gbit Serial FPDP Report	Ralph Barrera, Curtiss-Wright	See presentation.
	VITA 41.6, VXS Control Plane	Michael Bonato, DRS-SS	The working group is in the process of updating the draft. The group is also looking for a new draft editor.
	VITA 41.7, Processor Mesh	Michael Munroe, Elma Bustronic	See presentation.
	VITA 42 Status	Andy Reddig, TEK Micro	See presentation.
	VITA 46, VPX Status Report	Stewart Dewar, Curtiss-Wright	See presentation.
	VITA 47r1 Status Report	Dan Golden, Boeing	See presentation.
	VITA 48, REDI	Mike Gust, Mercury Computer
	VITA 49, Digital IF	Bob Normoyle, DRS-SS	No report.
	VITA 50, Cooling	Rex Harvey, Parker Hannifin	See presentation.
	VITA 51, Reliability Prediction	Charles Falardeau, Curtis-Wright
	*** Lunch ***
	VITA 53, Market Surveillance	Stephen Cecil, CRANE	See presentation. Tek Micro has agreed to be third sponsor for this activity.
	VITA 55 Aurora on VME Report	Andy Reddig, Tek Microsystems, Inc.	No report was given for VITA 55.
	VITA 56, EMC	David Slaton, GE	David Pepper presented for David Slaton. See presentation.
	VITA 57 Status	Malachy Devlin, Nallatech	No report.
	VITA 58, Electronic Module Integration	Michael Humphrey, AP Labs	See presentation.
	Adjourn VSO Meeting	Elwood Parsons
Working Group Meetings
	Seaview A & B	Seaview C
	VITA 46 Working Group Meeting	VITA 51 Working Group	See individual working group web pages.
	VITA 47r1 Working Group Meeting
	VITA 48 Working Group Meeting
	VITA 58 Working Group Meeting
	Adjourn Meetings

Thursday, Jan 18, 2007

Breakfast – 7:00 to 8:00 AM

Subject	Presenter
Call Meeting to Order Announcements, etc.	Elwood Parsons, VSO Chair	Elwood called the meeting to order. No announcements were made.
Future Meeting Schedule	John Rynearson, VITA	John reviewed the future meeting schedule. See VITA web site (www.vita.com) for 2007 meeting schedule.
VSO Meeting Adjournment		There being no other business the VSO meeting was adjourned.