Executive Committee Meeting Summary
for 4-5 December, 2007

Date

December 4-5, 2007

Location

Marlborough, MA (hosted by Jean-Marie Dautelle)

Agenda

Thursday August 16	Wednesday August 17
Welcome PMO Topics: Patrick Curran Agenda review and roll call New member welcomes and introductions Minutes, summary from previous meetings Workshop sessions: the future of the JCP	Agenda review and roll call Workshop sessions: the future of the JCP (continued) EC stats/Personnel changes 2008 calendar: schedules and locations for f2f meetings Spec Lead presentation (Roger Kitain - JSR 314) BenQ/Qisda JSRs (Orange France) Platform Compatibility Rules

Attendance (December 4)

PMO
Patrick Curran
ME EC	SE/EE EC
BenQ - SS Chen – present Jean-Marie Dautelle – present Ericsson – Magnus Olsson – present IBM – Steve Wolfe – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Motorola – not present Nokia – Pentti Savolainen – present Orange France - Cuithlauac Alvarado – present Philips – not present RIM – Mike Rybak – present Samsung – Vincent Kwon – present Siemens – Christoph Kuhmuench – present Sony-Ericsson – Jeff Griffin – present Sun – Calinel Pasteanu, Roger Riggs – present Time Warner Cable – George Sarosi – present Vodafone – Günter Klas, Kay Glahn – present Total attendance: 14	Apache – Geir Magnusson – present BEA – Ed Cobb, Michael Rowley – present Eclipse – Mike Milinkovitch – present Fujitsu – Mike DeNicola – present Google – Bob Lee – present HP – Scott Jameson – present IBM – Steve Wolfe – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Red Hat – Thomas Diesler – present Doug Lea – present Nortel – Harpreet Geekee – present Oracle – Don Deutsch – present SAP – Michael Bechauf – present SAS – Rich Main – present Hani Suleiman – present Sun – Danny Coward, Roberto Cinni – present Total attendance: 16
Since 12 members of each EC were present, there was a quorum for this meeting on December 4.

Attendance (December 5)

PMO
Patrick Curran
ME EC	SE/EE EC
BenQ - SS Chen – present Jean-Marie Dautelle – present Ericsson – Magnus Olsson – present IBM – Steve Wolfe – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Motorola – not present Nokia – Pentti Savolainen – present Orange France - Cuithlauac Alvarado – present Philips – not present RIM – Mike Rybak – present Samsung – Vincent Kwon – present Siemens – Christoph Kuhmuench – present Sony-Ericsson – Jeff Griffin – present Sun – Calinel Pasteanu, Roger Riggs – present Time Warner Cable – George Sarosi – present Vodafone – Günter Klas, Kay Glahn – present Total attendance: 14	Apache – Geir Magnusson – present BEA – Ed Cobb, Michael Rowley – present Eclipse – not present Fujitsu – Mike DeNicola – present Google – Bob Lee – present HP – Scott Jameson – present IBM – Steve Wolfe – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Red Hat – Thomas Diesler – present Doug Lea – present Nortel Networks – Harpreet Geekee – present Oracle – Don Deutsch – present SAP – Michael Bechauf – present SAS – Rich Main – not present Hani Suleiman – present Sun – Danny Coward, Roberto Cinni – present Total attendance: 14
Since 12 members of each EC were present, there was a quorum for this meeting on December 5.

Thanks

The PMO and the EC members sincerely thank Jean-Marie Dautelle and his wife for hosting the meeting. The facilities and catering were first class.

Minutes (December 4)

New member welcomes and introductions

New and existing EC members introduced themselves.

Minutes, summary from previous meetings

Approval of the minutes and summary for the November EC meeting was postponed until a future EC meeting.

Workshop sessions: the future of the JCP

The EC spent the remainder of the first day in workshop discussions on the future of the JCP.

Minutes (December 5)

Workshop sessions: the future of the JCP (continued)

The EC continued the discussions on the future of the JCP. Two resolutions were approved.

The first, being a general resolution, was voted on by both ECs:

Resolution 1 (proposed by Oracle, seconded by BEA)

"It is the sense of the Executive Committee that the JCP become an open independent vendor-neutral Standards Organization where all members participate on a level playing field with the following characteristics:

members fund development and management expenses

a legal entity with by-laws, governing body, membership, etc.

a new, simplified IPR Policy that permits the broadest number of implementations

stringent compatibility requirements

dedicated to promoting the Java programming model

Furthermore, the EC shall put a plan in place to make such transition as soon as practical with minimal disruption to the Java Community."

Resolution 1 vote tally
ME EC		SE/EE EC
BenQ	Yes	Apache	Yes
Jean-Marie Dautelle	Yes	BEA	Yes
Ericsson	Yes	Eclipse	Absent
IBM	Yes	Fujitsu	Yes
Intel	Yes	Google>	Yes
Motorola	Absent	HP	Yes
Nokia	Yes	IBM	Yes
Orange	Yes	Intel	Yes
Philips	Absent	Red Hat	Yes
RIM	Yes	Doug Lea	Yes
Samsung	Yes	Nortel	Yes
Siemens	Yes	Oracle	Yes
Sony-Ericsson	Yes	SAP	Yes
Sun	Abstain	SAS	Absent
Time Warner	Yes	Hani Suleiman	Yes
Vodafone	Yes	Sun	Abstain

The second resolution, being Java SE-specific, was voted on only by the SE/EE EC:

Resolution 2 (proposed by BEA, seconded by Intel)

"The SEEE EC requests Sun to submit a Java SE7 JSR with the following characteristics:

EG members will share costs by contributing to the TCK and RI submitted under common licensing terms that will allow any implementer to use them;

accompanied by public spec, tck, ri licenses at JSR initiation;

licenses do not contain Field of Use restrictions on spec implementations.

the JSR is operated by the Spec Lead under democratic principles (e.g. Java SE6)

Furthermore, from the time of submission, TCK license(s) for Java SE5 and later will be offered without field of use restrictions on spec implementations enabling the TCK to be used by organizations including Apache."

Resolution 2 vote tally
SE/EE EC
Apache	Yes
BEA	Yes
Eclipse	Absent
Fujitsu	Yes
Google	Yes
HP	Abstain
IBM	Abstain
Intel	Yes
Red Hat	Abstain
Doug Lea	Yes
Nortel	Yes
Oracle	Yes
SAP	Yes
SAS	Absent
Hani Suleiman	Yes
Sun	Abstain

EC stats/Personnel changes

Due to lack of time these materials were not presented or discussed, simply inserted into the record.

2008 calendar: schedules and locations for f2f meetings

Due to lack of time the EC decided to continue the discussion of next year's calendar by email.

Spec Lead presentation (Roger Kitain - JSR 314)

Due to lack of time this presentation was postponed until a future EC meeting.

BenQ/Qisda JSRs (Orange France)

Cuithlauac Alvarado led a brief discussion of the situation regarding the JSRs that are currently involved in legal intellectual property disputes. Dr Chen responded for Qisda stating that she expected that the legal situation would be resolved by the end of the first quarter in calendar year 2008.