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Minutes of the CE-2.0 National Connectors Standards Committee
October 31-November 2, 2000
Orlando, Florida

Note: All attachmnents are Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

See Attachment No. 12 for member phone, fax & e-mail numbers & mailing address.
Meeting Number 27 of the National Connector Standards Committee convened at 8:30 a.m. on October 31, 2000.

1. REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The minutes of meeting number 26 held in Cheyenne, WY , June 6-8, 2000 were approved with minor corrections provided by Al Davis (Meeting Report should be "26" on page 1 and Jim Koser was listed twice as being absent).

2. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT

A. Bill O'Hirok read a letter of resignation from Jim Koser and announced that he had appointed Carl Fritz to replace Jim Koser, as Chairman of CE-2.3 Rectangular Connector Specifications.

B. Master membership list was circulated for updating and Bill O'Hirok thanked members for returning the meeting notice attendance slips.

C. Bill O'Hirok noted that anybody introducing a product with intellectual property concerns must sign a licence to release. Bill read a letter from Whitaker Corp showing how this is done.

D. Bill O'Hirok reported that he had attended the first ECA Engineering Summit. He noted that our documents will still be EIA documents, otherwise we are part of ECA. He said that had vetoed a proposal for joint meetings of Committees as we prefer to meet separately. However, their next meeting will be in October, 2001.

E. Bill O'Hirok presented Carl Fritz the ECA Award of Excellence-Electronic Component Engineering Volunteer, for his outstanding contributions to CE-2.0.

F. Carl Fritz reported that ECA had recanted on having EIA TP's posted on the web. To restate and reconfirm the Committee's earlier positions, Carl Fritz moved " all EIA 364 procedures be placed on the web free of charge". The motion was seconded by Frank Ruffino. In discussion, Rick Taylor, DSCC, noted that the Military had been counting on the TP's being on line. Also, Marty Freedman reported that the IPC has all of it's Test Procedures on line. The motion carried unanimously (18 for, 0 against).

.3. SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS

CE-2.2 Circular Connector Specifications-Chairman Al Davis
The subcommittee on Circular Connectors was convened by Al Davis (see Attachment No. 1 for meeting report). At the conclusion of the meeting the actions of the subcommittee were unanimously approved.

CE-2.3 Rectangular Connector Specifications-Chairman: Carl Fritz.
The subcommittee on Rectangular Connectors was convened by Carl Fritz (see Attachment No.2 for meeting report). At the conclusion of the meeting the actions of the subcommittee were unanimously approved.

CE-2.4 Printed Board Connector Specifications - Chairman: Rick Taylor, Vice Chairman: Carl Fritz
Subcommittee on Printed Board Connectors was convened by Rick Taylor (See Attachment No. 3 for meeting report). At the conclusion of the meeting the actions of the subcommittee were unanimously approved.

CE-2.5 Backplane Specifications - Chairman: TBD
Inactive at this time.

CE-2.6 Contact Specifications-Chairman: Dave Bouzek , Vice Chairman: Rick Taylor
Subcommittee on Contacts was convened by Dave Bouzek (see Attachments No. 4 and No.5 for letters summarizing work)

CE-2.7 Editing Subcommittee - Chairman: Carl Fritz
Subcommittee on Editing was convened by Carl Fritz ( see Attachment No. 6 for meeting report).
There were no actions requiring approval.

CE-2.8 International Standards Subcommittee - Chairman: Jeff Toran
Carl Fritz reported on IEC standards activities for Jeff Toran: (See Attachment No. 7 for his report). There were no actions requiring approval.

4.0 WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

CE-2.0.1 Contact and Connector Plating - Chairman: Peter Willcox
The Working Group on Contact and Connector Plating was convened by Peter Willcox ( see Attachment 8 for his report). There were no actions requiring approval.

CE-2.0.3 Insulator Materials - Chairman: Frank Ruffino
No activity

CE-2.0.4 Connector Outlines & Surface Mount Activities - Chairman: TBD
The P4 Committee has been resurrected. Any members who have surface mount connectors may want to register. Bill O'Hirok requested Marty Freedman to contact Caddy Greenridge and report back to our committee.

5. SPECIAL TASK GROUP MEETINGS

STG-13-2.0 Terminology - Chairman: Rick Taylor
Rick Taylor reported that he is still working on a revision. SAE canceled AIR 914 in favor of our document. It was suggested that we may want to flag where our definitions are different from the IEC, so we can cover the world (see Attachment No. 3 for report).

STG-20-2.0 Space Requirements - Chairman: Charles Gamble,Jr
Charles Gamble, Jr. agreed to head up this STG and was thanked by Bill O'Hirok.

STG-23-2.0 Current vs Temperature Rise - Chairman: Max Peel
Carl Fritz reported on the status of this project for Max Peel. Carl used a projector to show the present document, dated October 27, 2000.

The meeting adjourned at 5:10 pm and reconvened on November 1, 2000 at 8:30 am.

CE-2.1 Test Procedures (Chairman: Bill Peverill, Vice Chairman Max Peel)
The Test Procedures subcommittee was convened by Bill Peverill ( see Attachment No. 9 for meeting report). Th the conclusion of the meeting the actions of the subcommittee were unanimously approved.

The meeting adjourned at 4:40 pm and reconvened at 8:30 am on November 2, 2000.

6.0 LIAISON REPORTS

A. DSCC (Including Army, Air Force & Navy [except NAVAIR])
Rick Taylor reported on DSCC activities ( see Attachment No. 3 for his report).

B. NAVAIR LAKEHURST REPORT
Bill O'Hirok read a report on NAVAIR Standardization activities from Dwight Tabit ( see Attachment No. 10 for his report).

C. SAE Report
Bill O'Hirok noted that SAE may have taken on too much work in accepting the transfer of Military Specifications,(coordination meetings, resolution of comments, etc.) A list of major concerns is being compiled. SAE was considering a Sears orbital sander for testing 38999 connectors.

E. ISO Report
Rick Taylor reported that the French are introducing a large number of ISO TP's

F. ASTM
Frank Ruffino reported that the ASTM committee had not met since our last meeting. Crimp integrity test is still out on ballot.

G. CE-3.0
Harvey Waltersdorf reported on CE-.3 activities (see Attachment No.11 for his report).

H. NASA
Charles Gamble, Jr., NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, will report on NASA activities in the future. He is a specialist on interconnects and also handles wire and other items.

I. IICIT
Frank Ruffino reported on IICIT activities. The annual connector symposium was well attended and is getting more technical.

7.0 New Business

A. Harvey Waltersdorf reported that he had received a request from Jay Neer to start a project on a
DB9 /SCA 2 connector. Molex will sponsor the project. Harvey handed out a SFF abstract sheet for the SCA 2 connector. Frank Ruffino and Carl Fritz recalled that this project had died on the vein
earlier. Frank Ruffino will recheck the status at Molex and reaffirm sponsorship.

B. Several of the members expressed their opinion that selecting a meeting site two years out was not workable. Following these desires, the October 2002 site was not selected. However, the present list of sites will not change. It was agreed that the meeting site means the general area of the site. The possibility of holding future CE 2.0 and 3.0 meetings together at the Engineering Summit next year was also discussed. The chairman agreed to consider moving the selection of sites to the front of the agenda.

FUTURE MEETINGS

A. February, 27,28 & March 1, 2000 San Diego, CA
Marriott Suites Hotel

B. June, 5,6 & 7, 2001 Calgary Canada

C. October, 2001 Cape Cod, MA

D. February, 2002 Henderson, NV

E. June, 2002 Ann Arbor, MI
The meeting adjourned at 10:30 am

This meeting was conducted in accordance with EIA Legal Guidelines and EIA Manual for Organization and Procedure.

William Peverill, Secretary
EIA CE-2.0

W.D. O'Hirok, Chairman
EIA CE-2.0

Attachments:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

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