Weekly Status of P1016 WG - 12 October 2001

Item 1. P1016 PAR Approval - Final preparations are being made to submit the PAR for P1016 to our Management Board liaison Ted Byrne this Monday October 15, 2001 for distribution to the SESC Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is scheduled to meet next week and Ted has been ask to put the P1016 PAR on the agenda. Anticipating SESC approval, the completed PAR must be at NesCom no later that Friday October 26, 2001 for the December 5th meeting. Anticipating NesCom approval on December 5, 2001 we will make our December 31, 2001 scheduled date for the PAR.

Item 2. Project Plan - A basic timeline has been proposed: PAR 4Q 2001, Project Plan 4Q 2001; 2002 - Initial draft of P1016 and two subsequent drafts presented at two conferences; 1Q/2Q 2003 Ballot - Ballot resolution, Submit to RevCom. More planning activities are necessary to generate the project plan.

Item 3. First draft of P1016 - Documents have been distributed, defining the baseline scope, stakeholders, and expectations is in progress. More dialog is necessary at this time.

Item 4. Organization - Rich has the working group list and will make periodic distributions of the list.

Basil A. Sherlund
P1016 WG Chair
Software Design Descriptions