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Record of Letter Ballot Review by TC Chapter for Procedural Review

Region/Locale: Japan Global Technical Committee: Information & Control TC Chapter Cochairs: Takayuki Nishimura/ SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions, Mitsuhiro Matsuda/ KOKUSAI ELECTRIC Standards staff: Mizue Iwamura (Ms.)

Scheduled in Background Statement Actual Date 07/27/2018 07/27/2018 Location SEMI Japan, Tokyo, Japan SEMI Japan, Tokyo, Japan Reason for Change of Date and/or Location (if changed)

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Note: See Regulations ¶ 9.5 Exceptions for allowable reason to change.

I. Document Number and Title

Document Number 6375

Document Title Revision to: ‘SEMI E170-1217: Specification for Secured Foundation of Recipe Management System (SFORMS)’, and ‘SEMI E170.1-1217: Specification for SECS-II Protocol for Secured Foundation of Recipe Management System’

II. Tally Standards staff to fill in. Voting Tally: As-cast tally after close of voting period Note: A minimum of 60% of the Voting Interests that have TC Members within the global technical committee that issued the Letter Ballot must return Votes. (Regulations ¶ 9.6.2.1.1) Voting Tally (with example values):

Note: See Regulations § 3.2.1 for definition of Voting Interest.

Voting Interest: Returned Votes Distribution Return RateLetter Ballot 77 ÷ 123 = 62.6% ≥60%

Intercommittee Ballot 28

Voting Interest Reject(s) 3 Total Voters with Rejects 3

Voting Interest Accept(s) 33

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III. Rejects Voting Interest Reject 1 (Voting Interest Name: Cimetrix Incorporated) Voter Reject 1 (Voter: Rubow, Brian / Cimetrix Incorporated) Negative 1

Negative

Referenced Section/

Paragraph

*TF/TC Chapter to fill in, including text in the ballot if necessary.

Negative Text

*Original complete Negative text (e.g., issue, justification, suggestion) should be copied. Ballot violates SEMI Regulations section 3.5.1.1. The ballot fails to use underline and strikethrough formatting to indicate changes. 'Complete rewrite’ is only appropriate when ‘the use of underline and strikethrough would be excessive’. Based on the background statement, this does not seem to be the case; therefore this ballot violates regulations. It is very difficult for the voter to know what has changed and not changed and therefore very difficult to vote. Expecting voters to perform a difference comparison is unfair to the voters.

TF input (optional)

P.M. 3.5.1.1

Withdrawal (check one)

X No Negative withdrawal made by Voter. GO TO “Related” subsection

Withdrawal document received by Standards staff on MM/DD/YYYY.

GO TO “Final” subsection (A)

Related

Motion and Reason

(check one)

X ‘Related’ is mutually agreed upon. (Needs no motion.) GO TO “Persuasive” subsection

Negative is not related. (Needs ≥2/3 votes to pass.)

Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by

Name (Company)/Name (Company)

Discussion

Result of Vote (check one)

XX Y-XX N; Motion passed/failed.

[Negative is not related.] < 2/3 GO TO “Persuasive” subsection

2/3 ≤ [Negative is not related.] GO TO “Final” subsection (B)

Persuasive

Motion and Reason

(check one)

Negative is related and persuasive. (Needs >1/3 votes to pass.)

X Negative is related and not persuasive. (Needs ≥2/3 votes to pass.)

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Reason

It was tried to use underline and strike-through. But it was excessive if the modification parts were explained by strike-through and underline. Because the modifications included changing SRS to SRO with objects merge, and authentication added on SRO. Thus “Complete Rewrite” was chosen.

Motion by/ 2nd by

Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/Masaya Nagata (Tokyo Electron)

Discussion None.


9 Y-0 N; Motion passed.

[Negative is related and persuasive.] > 1/3

Is a technical change recommended? (check one)

Y

GO TO “Address by Technical Change Option” subsection

[Negative is related and not persuasive.] < 2/3

N GO TO “Final” subsection (E)

2/3 ≤ [Negative is related and not persuasive.] < 90% GO TO “Final” subsection (C)

X 90% ≤ [Negative is related and not persuasive.] GO TO “Not Significant Finding Option” subsection

Address by Technical Change O

ption

Technical Change Recommendations Original section/paragraph number and at least one full sentence are required in “FROM” and “TO” fields.

Technical Changes

1

FROM: Section/Paragraph XXX TO: Section/Paragraph xxx Justification (If necessary)

2

FROM: Section/Paragraph XXX

TO: Section/Paragraph xxx

Justification (If necessary)

Motion Negative is addressed by the technical change(s).

Motion by/2nd by Name (Company)/Name (Company)

Discussion



2/3 ≤ [Negative is addressed by the technical change(s).]

GO TO “Incorporation of the Technical Change” subsection

[Negative is not addressed by the technical change(s).] < 2/3

GO TO “Final” subsection (E)

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Incorporation of the Technical C

hange

Motion To incorporate the technical change(s). Motion by/2nd by Name (Company)/Name (Company) Discussion



90% ≤ [Agree to incorporate.] GO TO “Final” subsection (F)

[Disagree to incorporate.]>10% GO TO “Final” subsection (E)

Not Significant Finding

Option

This option can be used only “if the TC Chapter finds a Negative not persuasive by a vote equal to or greater than 90% of the persons voting on the action”. (Regulations ¶ 9.6.1.4.5.2)

Use of “Not significant

finding option” (check one)

X It is mutually agreed upon to term the Negative “not significant”.

GO TO “Final” subsection (D)

It is mutually agreed upon to term the Negative “significant”.

GO TO “Final” subsection (C)

Whether or not the Negative is “not significant” is decided by a vote.

Motion The Negative is “not significant”.

Motion by/ 2nd by


Vote

XX Y-XX N; Motion passed with simple majority GO TO “Final” subsection (D)

XX Y-XX N; Motion failed with simple majority GO TO “Final” subsection (C)

Final

(check if applicable)

(A) Withdrawn (counted under h in disposition) (B) Not related (counted under i in disposition) (C) Related and not persuasive (significant)

X (D) Not significant (counted under j in disposition)

(E) Related and persuasive and not addressed by technical change DOCUMENT FAILS

(F) Addressed by technical change (counted under k disposition) (check if

applicable) Comment generated. See Section V-(ii) Comment # X.

This table is needed for each Negative. Disposition of Voting Interest Reject 1 Check only when the Document has not been failed.

1 Original number (#) of Negatives (g)

0 Number of Negatives withdrawn (h)

0 Number of Negatives found not related (i)

1 Number of Negatives found not significant (j)

0 Number of Negatives addressed by technical change (Negative becomes not significant) (k)

Final X g - (h + i +j + k) = 0 Reject is Not Valid and is not included in the denominator of § VI. Approval Conditions Check

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g - (h + i +j + k) >0 Reject is included in the denominator of § VI. Approval Conditions Check

Reject without a Negative Not Valid This table is needed for each Voting Interest Reject. Note: If all of the Negatives included with a Reject Vote are withdrawn, determined to be not related, or determined to be not significant, the Reject Vote is not valid. (Regulations ¶ 9.4.3.3) Note: A Negative addressed by a technical change is automatically considered to be not significant. (Regulations ¶ 9.6.1.4.5.2)

Voting Interest Reject 2 (Voting Interest Name: Tokyo Electron Limited) Voter Reject 1 (Voter: Mochizuki, Tadashi / Tokyo Electron Limited) Negative 1

Negative

Referenced Section/

Paragraph


Table 18 Usage of the Management Part of RecipeXID (Except for COP)

Negative Text

*Original complete Negative text (e.g., issue, justification, suggestion) should be copied. When a recipe is checked in by equipment, OperationID of new RecipeID is ‘ERM’. If the equipment has multiple EOP, the publisher of the recipe becomes unknown. This means that when the user (OperationID) is checked out by equipment repository, equipment cannot know the recipe belonging to this OperationID.

TF input (optional)





Related

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion





Persuasive

Motion and Reason

(check one)



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Reason

An Operation is not permanent and may be activated/inactivated (created/deleted) as required. And, a recipe is not owned by Operation but may be rented out to those multiple Operations. OperationID only shows ‘Which Operation the Copy of recipe currently belongs to’, and does not show the originator of the recipe. So, ‘ERM’ simply means the recipe is under control of the equipment repository, and does not have any intent to maintain from which operation the recipe came. If such information is required, application tier should maintain it.

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion Voter understood the reason. Voter would like to address repository handling as a New Business in TF.


8Y- 0N; Motion passed.



Y







ption


Technical Changes

1


2






Discussion







In Motion To incorporate the technical change(s).

7

Motion by/2nd by Name (Company)/Name (Company) Discussion






Option










Motion by/ 2nd by


Vote



Final







This table is needed for each Negative. Negative 2

Negative

Referenced Section/

Paragraph


Figure 9 Image of RecipeXID Operation (Except for COP)

Negative Text

*Original complete Negative text (e.g., issue, justification, suggestion) should be copied. The Operation ID of EOP is equipment defined. Therefore, EOP of different equipment has the same Operation ID. In Figure 9, SRO for equipment A is A0 and A1, SRO for equipment B is B0 and B1. In case of EOP, reader will be confused.

TF input (optional)





Rel Motion and Reason X ‘Related’ is mutually agreed upon. (Needs no motion.) GO TO “Persuasive”

subsection

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(check one) Negative is not related. (Needs ≥2/3 votes to pass.)

Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion





Persuasive

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason

As OperationID of EOP is equipment assigned, OperationIDs created by multiple equipment MAY take the same value. However, it does not make confusion since the communication between RMS and equipment is Point-to-Point, and equipment cannot see what is going on between RMS and other equipment.

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion Voter understood the reason. Voter would like to prepare the application notes on XID handling as a New Business in TF.


8Y- 0N; Motion passed.



Y






Address by Technical Change

Option


Technical Changes

1


2



9




Discussion








hange







Option










Motion by/ 2nd by


Vote



Final







Negative 3

Ne *TF/TC Chapter to fill in, including text in the ballot if necessary.

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Referenced Section/

Paragraph

Table 54 PRC Operation Transaction Description

Negative Text

*Original complete Negative text (e.g., issue, justification, suggestion) should be copied. There is no PreSpecifyRecipe Event in Table 54.

TF input (optional)





Related

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion





Persuasive

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason

Related and not persuasive. The definition in the Table 54 is not ‘Message’ basis but ‘Transaction’ basis. PreSpecifyRecipe Event is a part of PreSpecifyRecipe Transaction.

Motion by/ 2nd by

Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/ Masaya Nagata(Tokyo Electron)

Discussion Voter understood the reason. Voter would like to add explanations including cache hit case on PreSpecifyRecipe handling as a New Business in TF.





Y






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ption


Technical Changes

1


2






Discussion








hange







Option










Motion by/ 2nd by


Vote



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Final







Disposition of Voting Interest Reject 1 Check only when the Document has not been failed.






Final

X g - (h + i +j + k) = 0 Reject is Not Valid and is not included in the denominator of § VI. Approval Conditions Check


Reject without a Negative Not Valid This table is needed for each Voting Interest Reject. Note: If all of the Negatives included with a Reject Vote are withdrawn, determined to be not related, or determined to be not significant, the Reject Vote is not valid. (Regulations ¶ 9.4.3.3) Note: A Negative addressed by a technical change is automatically considered to be not significant. (Regulations ¶ 9.6.1.4.5.2)

Voting Interest Reject 3 (Voting Interest Name: PEER Group Inc.) Voter Reject 1 (Voter: Fuchigami, Albert / PEER Group Inc. ) Negative 1

Negative

Referenced Section/

Paragraph


Negative Text

*Original complete Negative text (e.g., issue, justification, suggestion) should be copied. Table 37 – SROOBJ Transaction Parameter Definition – Parameters RecipeXIDList and RecipeList have identical Form content. Think the RecipeList form should just have List of (RecipeID), rather than RecipeXID content?

TF input (optional)

Withdrawal (check one) No Negative withdrawal made by Voter. GO TO “Related”

subsection

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X Withdrawal document received by Standards staff on 07/17/2018.


Related

Motion and Reason

(check one)

‘Related’ is mutually agreed upon. (Needs no motion.) GO TO “Persuasive” subsection


Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion





Persuasive

Motion and Reason

(check one)


Negative is related and not persuasive. (Needs ≥2/3 votes to pass.)

Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion





Y





90% ≤ [Negative is related and not persuasive.] GO TO “Not Significant Finding Option” subsection

Address by Technical Change

Option


Technical Changes

1


2



14




Discussion








hange







Option




It is mutually agreed upon to term the Negative “not significant”.






Motion by/ 2nd by


Vote



Final


X (A) Withdrawn (counted under h in disposition) (B) Not related (counted under i in disposition) (C) Related and not persuasive (significant) (D) Not significant (counted under j in disposition)




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This table is needed for each Negative. Negative 2

Negative

Referenced Section/

Paragraph


Negative Text

*Original complete Negative text (e.g., issue, justification, suggestion) should be copied. Table 53 – PRC Additional Attribute Definition says for MaxNumber, n=number of recipes are allowed. But isn’t this a list so individual number can be set to ProcessMain recipe and to multiple ProcessUnit recipes for different units? (Per 15.4.4 Maximum Number Management of Recipes Retained in PRC (Optional). Most of the spec looks Maximum Number to be a single number. Think if you want to specify Maximum Number per ProcessMain and multiple ProcessUnits, look at a different attribute/variable.

TF input (optional)





Related

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion





Persuasive

Motion and Reason

(check one)

X Negative is related and persuasive. (Needs >1/3 votes to pass.)


Reason

Although MaxNumber is defined as List Structure, there were similar names such as MaxNumber, maximum number and also ambiguous expression MaxNumber=0. Thus these expressions should be improved as follow: - Improve MaxNumber expressions to replace MaxNumber

with MaxNumberList. - Call maximum number for each recipe type as

“Corresponding component of MaxNumberList” - Corresponding component of MaxNumberList related

- E170.1 Table 4 [51] to [52] Motion by/

2nd by Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/Masaya Nagata(Tokyo Electron)

Discussion Voter agreed to make technical changes specified in Technical Change Recommendations columns below.

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X [Negative is related and persuasive.] > 1/3


X

Y







ption


Technical Changes

1

FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 12 List of Capabilities

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#1> and </#1>. Table 12 List of Capabilities


2

FROM: Section/Paragraph

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#1> and </#1>.


3

FROM: Section/Paragraph

17

TO: Section/Paragraph


4 FROM: Section/Paragraph

18

TO: Section/Paragraph


5 FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 51 Modes of PRC

TO: Section/Paragraph Table 51 Modes of PRC


6 FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 51 Modes of PRC

19

TO: Section/Paragraph Table 51 Modes of PRC


7 FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 53 PRC Additional Attribute Definition

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#1> and </#1>. Table 53 PRC Additional Attribute Definition


8 FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 55 PRC Operation Transaction Additional Parameter Definition

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TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#1> and </#1>. Table 55 PRC Operation Transaction Additional Parameter Definition


9 FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 56 SetPRCAttributes Service Message Definition

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#1> and </#1>. Table 56 SetPRCAttributes Service Message Definition


10 FROM: Section/Paragraph E170.1 Table 4 PRC Operation Service Parameter to SECS-II Data Items Mapping

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#1> and </#1>. E170.1 Table 4 PRC Operation Service Parameter to SECS-II Data Items Mapping


11 FROM: Section/Paragraph E170.1 Table 6 PRC Operation Additional Attribute SECS-II Definitions

21

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#1> and </#1>. E170.1 Table 6 PRC Operation Additional Attribute SECS-II Definitions



Motion by/2nd by Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/Masaya Nagata (Tokyo Electron)

Discussion None.



X 2/3 ≤ [Negative is addressed by the technical change(s).]





hange

Motion To incorporate the technical change(s). Motion by/2nd by Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/ Masaya Nagata (Tokyo Electron) Discussion None.



X 90% ≤ [Agree to incorporate.] GO TO “Final” subsection (F)



Option










Motion by/ 2nd by


Vote



Final


(A) Withdrawn (counted under h in disposition) (B) Not related (counted under i in disposition) (C) Related and not persuasive (significant) (D) Not significant (counted under j in disposition)


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X (F) Addressed by technical change (counted under k disposition) (check if


Negative 3

Negative

Referenced Section/

Paragraph


Negative Text

*Original complete Negative text (e.g., issue, justification, suggestion) should be copied. Table 53 – PRC Additional Attribute Definition says MaxTime units is user defined. However Table 4 PRC Operation Service Parmater to SECS-II Data Item Mappings define MaxTime as [51](Unsigned 1-Byte), imposing an upper limit of 255. Which means seconds and minutes are not an effective unit?. Think you should specify time units in the standard. (set as hours if you want to keep U1 datatype, or make datatype larger than U1 if you want to specify minutes). Note – AutoClose (also U1) is defined as seconds.

TF input (optional)



Withdrawal document received by Standards staff on 0M/DD/YYYY.


Related

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion





Persuasive

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason

It was assumed that the unit of MaxTime is “minute” but it is not written in the ballot. Both MaxTime[minute] and AutoClose[second] are 1byte unsigned integer and these are not sufficient to use at the actual Fab operation. Thus the following improvements will be done in the ratification ballot. - Specify the unit of MaxTime - Improve the range of MaxTime and AutoClose

Change unsigned integer to 2-byte integer(unsigned) Type of MaxTime is changed from [51] to [52] Type of AutoClose is changed from [51] to [52]

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Motion by/ 2nd by







X

Y







ption


Technical Changes

1

FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 32 SROOBJ Attribute Definition

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#2> and </#2>. Table 32 SROOBJ Attribute Definition


2

FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 53 PRC Additional Attribute Definition

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#2> and </#2>. Table 53 PRC Additional Attribute Definition

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3 FROM: Section/Paragraph E170.1 Table 2 SROOBJ Service Parameter to SECS-II Data Items Mapping

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#2> and </#2>. E170.1 Table 2 SROOBJ Service Parameter to SECS-II Data Items Mapping


4 FROM: Section/Paragraph E170.1 Table 4 PRC Operation Service Parameter to SECS-II Data Items Mapping

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#2> and </#2>. E170.1 Table 4 PRC Operation Service Parameter to SECS-II Data Items Mapping


5 FROM: Section/Paragraph E170.1 Table 5 SROOBJ SECS-II Attribute Definitions

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#2> and </#2>. E170.1 Table 5 SROOBJ SECS-II Attribute Definitions


6 FROM: Section/Paragraph E170.1 Table 6 PRC Operation Additional Attribute SECS-II Definitions

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#2> and </#2>. E170.1 Table 6 PRC Operation Additional Attribute SECS-II Definitions

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Motion by/2nd by Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/ Masaya Nagata (Tokyo Electron)

Discussion None.








hange

Motion To incorporate the technical change(s). Motion by/2nd by Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/Masaya Nagata (Tokyo Electron) Discussion






Option










Motion by/ 2nd by


Vote



Final


(A) Withdrawn (counted under h in disposition) (B) Not related (counted under i in disposition) (C) Related and not persuasive (significant) (D) Not significant (counted under j in disposition)




Negative 4

Ne *TF/TC Chapter to fill in, including text in the ballot if necessary.

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Referenced Section/

Paragraph

Negative Text

*Original complete Negative text (e.g., issue, justification, suggestion) should be copied. It appears RMSPassword is defined as a 64-character value, and looks to be sent clear-text? It would be better to provide some encryption on some random data using a secret that only the client would know – look at Client Proof ID in SEMI E132 as an example?

TF input (optional)





Related

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason XXXX

Motion by/ 2nd by

Name(Company)/Name (Company)

Discussion





Persuasive

Motion and Reason

(check one)



Reason

The original ballot specified the RMSPassword information to be sent in plain-text. This is a security issue. But the ballot should have written the alternative way. Thus, the ratification ballot will be described to use time synchronized one-time password to mitigate the security risk.

Motion by/ 2nd by







X

Y






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ption


Technical Changes

1

FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 29 Unexpected Disconnection

TO: Section/Paragraph Table 29 Unexpected Disconnection


2

FROM: Section/Paragraph Table 37 SROOBJ Transaction Parameter Definition

TO: Section/Paragraph Table 37 SROOBJ Transaction Parameter Definition


3 FROM: Section/Paragraph

28

TO: Section/Paragraph Make following change tagged by <#3> and </#3>.



Motion by/2nd by Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/Masaya Nagata (Tokyo Electron)

Discussion None.








hange

Motion To incorporate the technical change(s). Motion by/2nd by Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/Masaya Nagata (Tokyo Electron) Discussion None.






Option










Motion by/ 2nd by


Vote



Fi (A) Withdrawn (counted under h in disposition)

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(B) Not related (counted under i in disposition) (C) Related and not persuasive (significant) (D) Not significant (counted under j in disposition)




Disposition of Voting Interest Reject 1 Check only when the Document has not been failed.






Final

X g - (h + i +j + k) = 0 Reject is Not Valid and is not included in the denominator of § VI. Approval Conditions Check


Reject without a Negative Not Valid This table is needed for each Voting Interest Reject. Note: If all of the Negatives included with a Reject Vote are withdrawn, determined to be not related, or determined to be not significant, the Reject Vote is not valid. (Regulations ¶ 9.4.3.3) Note: A Negative addressed by a technical change is automatically considered to be not significant. (Regulations ¶ 9.6.1.4.5.2) IV. Other Technical Issues None.

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V. Comments V- (i) Voters’ Comments Commenter 1 (Nagata, Masaya/Tokyo Electron Limited) - Comment 1

Com

ment

*TF/TC Chapter to fill in section/paragraph #, if necessary.

Need to explain why OperationID is changed to “PRM” or “ERM” when checked into RMS or Equipment repository. In the case two EOPs implemented on an equipment, Every OperationID is set as “ERM” of the recipes in the equipment repository. So, cannot find which of EOP_1 or EOP_2 is owner of a recipe in the repository.

Action

The TC Chapter agreed to do one of the following actions.

*No motion is required in this step.

Already addressed by Commenter #, Comment #

X No further action was taken by the TC Chapter.

Refer to the TF for more consideration.

New Business Editorial Change

Options for

editorial change (check one)

Case 1: No vote in this section: To be included and voted on as a group in § VI. Editorial Changes Other than Those Voted on in § V.

Case 2: Voted in this section: Original section number and at least one full sentence are required in “FROM” and “TO” fields.

Editorial Changes

1

FROM: Section/Paragraph xxx



2




Motion To approve above editorial change(s)


Discussion XXXX

Vote XX Y-XX N; Motion passed/failed.

This table is needed for each Comment accompanied a Vote

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Commenter 1 (Nagata, Masaya/Tokyo Electron Limited) - Comment 2

Com

ment

*TF/TC Chapter to fill in section/paragraph #, if necessary.

In some case of implementation, EOPs of different equipment have same OperationID because that OperationID are assigned by same equipment software. Does new E170 respect this, e.g. Figure9 ?

Action

The TC Chapter agreed to do one of the following actions.

*No motion is required in this step.

Already addressed by Commenter #, Comment #

X No further action was taken by the TC Chapter.

Refer to the TF for more consideration.

New Business Editorial Change

Options for

editorial change (check one)

Case 1: No vote in this section: To be included and voted on as a group in § VI. Editorial Changes Other than Those Voted on in § V.

Case 2: Voted in this section: Original section number and at least one full sentence are required in “FROM” and “TO” fields.

Editorial Changes

1




2




Motion To approve above editorial change(s)


Discussion XXXX

Vote XX Y-XX N; Motion passed/failed.

This table is needed for each Comment accompanied a Vote

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V-(ii) Comments Created by Handling Negative None. VI. Editorial Changes Other than Those Voted on in § V None.

VII. Approval Conditions Check VII. - (i). Approval Rate APPROVAL CONDITION 1: All Negatives have been discussed and were withdrawn, found not related, found not persuasive, or addressed by a technical change. (Regulations ¶ 9.6.2.1.2) APPROVAL CONDITION 2: At least 90% of the sum of valid Voting Interest Accept and Voting Interest Reject Votes must be Accept. (Regulations ¶ 9.6.2.1.3) Note: If both approval conditions are not satisfied, the Document fails.

VII. – (ii) Approval Level (check one) Note: See Regulations § 9.6.2 for further information.

Globally Approved (No Ratification Ballot needed): The Letter Ballot meets the Letter Ballot approval conditions for the global technical committee.

X

Need a Ratification Ballot: The Letter Ballot meets the Letter Ballot approval conditions for the TC Chapter and a Ratification Ballot will be issued to validate technical changes.

Accepts (Accepts +Valid Rejects)

Approval Rate = 33 / 33 = 100.0% ≥90%

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VIII. Safety Check Note: See Regulations § 15 for further information.

Motion

X This is not a Safety Document, when all safety-related information is removed, the Document is still technically sound and complete. (Regulations ¶ 8.7.1)

This is a Safety Document, when all safety-related information is removed, the Document is not technically sound and complete. (Regulations ¶ 8.7.2)

Safety Checklist (Regulations ¶ 15.3) is complete and has been included with the Document throughout the balloting process. (Regulations ¶ 15.1.2)

Motion by/2nd by Osamu Oishi (IBM Japan Services)/ Masaya Nagata (Tokyo Electron)

Discussion None.

Vote 8 Y-0 N; Motion passed.

IX. Intellectual Property (IP) Check

Note: This Letter Ballot may cover all or part of a Standard or Safety Guideline. Regardless of the coverage, this IP check applies to the entire Standard or Safety Guideline*. See Regulations § 16 for further information.

X The TC Chapter meeting chair asked those participating, if they were aware of any patented technology

that might be relevant (see Regulations ¶ 16.3.1.1) to the Standard or Safety Guideline; or, any copyrighted items or trademarks that are used/reproduced (see Regulations ¶ 16.4.1.2) in the Standard or Safety Guideline. (Also see, Regulations § 8.8)

X The question is NOT answered in affirmative (No potentially material patented technology or use/reproduction of copyrighted items/trademarks is known.)

GO TO SECTION X.

The question is answered in affirmative

Is any of the known IPs a patented technology?

Yes, at least one of them is a patented technology

GO TO IX (a) “Patented Technology” subsection

No GO TO IX (b) “Copyright items” subsection

IX(a) Patented Technologies subsection

IX(a1) Total numbers of Patented Technologies to be dealt with

# Fill number

(l) Known Patented Technology that might be relevant to the Standard/Safety Guideline

# Fill number

(m) Number of patented technologies first became known to the TC Chapter on or after the day of the issuance of this Letter Ballot

Postpone assessment of such patented technologies to be performed at the next scheduled TC Chapter meeting.

# Fill number

(n) Number of patented technologies first became known to the TC Chapter before the day of the issuance of this Letter Ballot

GO TO IX (a2)

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IX(a2) Assessment of disclosed patented technologies

Disclosed patented technology #1 (Brief description, e.g., patent title and number):

Date of Assessment (If different from the date of Letter Ballot adjudication) MM/DD/YYYY

Is disclosed patented technology #1 found to be “might be material” to the Standard/Safety Guideline?

YES (It is a PMPT) Is the use of this

PMPT technically justified?

YES PROCEED to assess NEXT one, or if this is the last one, GO TO IX(a3)

NO The Document is failed and returned to the TF

NO No further action is needed for patented technology #1

This table is needed for each disclosed patented technology. IX(a3) LOA status check of PMPT of which inclusion assessed to be justified

LOA Status of PMPT #1

Has an LOA for this patented technology been received from every owner ?

YES PROCEED to check NEXT one, or if this is the last one, GO TO IX(b)

NO MO

TION

Ask ISC for special permission to publish.

Quit activity. The Document is failed and returned to the TF

Wait for LOA PROCEED to check NEXT one, or if this is the last one, GO TO IX(b1)

Motion by/ 2nd by Name (Company)/Name (Company)

Discussion XXXX

Vote XX Y-XX N; Motion passed (or failed) This table is needed for each PMPT of which inclusion assessed to be justified. IX(b1) Total numbers of copyrighted items to be dealt with

# Fill number

(o) Known copyrighted items that are used or reproduced to the Standard/Safety Guideline

o > 0 There is at least one known copy righted items that might be relevant to the Standard/Safety Guideline

GO TO IX (b2)

o = 0 There is no disclosed copyrighted item

GO TO IX (c)

IX(b2) Assessment of disclosed copyrighted items

Disclosed copyrighted item #1 (Brief description of its use in the Document):

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Is disclosed copyrighted item #1 used or reproduced in the Standard/Safety Guideline?

YES

Is the use/reproduction of this copyrighted item technically justified?

YES PROCEED to assess NEXT one, or if this is the last one, GO TO IX(b3)


NO No further action is needed for copyrighted item #1

This table is needed for each disclosed copyrighted item. IX(b3) Copyright release status check of copyrighted item of which inclusion assessed to be justified

Copyright release Status of copyrighted item #1

Has the copyright release been received from its owner ?.

YES PROCEED to assess NEXT one, or if this is the last one, GO TO IX(c)

NO MO

TION

Ask ISC for special permission to publish.

Quit activity. The Document is failed and returned to the TF

Wait for copyright release letter

PROCEED to check NEXT one, or if this is the last one, GO TO IX(c)

Motion by/ 2nd by Name (Company)/Name (Company)

Discussion XXXX

Vote XX Y-XX N; Motion passed (or failed) This table is needed for each copyrighted item of which use/reproduction assessed to be justified. IX(c) Assessment of disclosed (identified) trademark

Is there any trademark in the Standard/Safety Guideline?

YES Is every instance of trademark use technically justified?

YES GO TO IX(d)


NO GO TO IX(d)

IX(d) IP check completion condition check

The co-chair checks if any Patented Technologies first become known to the TC Chapter on or after the day of the issuance of this Letter Ballot? i.e., m>0 in IX(a1)

YES

Sections IX(a2) and IX(a3) shall be completed and recorded for such patented technologies at next scheduled meeting of the TC Chapter. Until then, the TC Chapter shall NOT go to X (making motion to pass/fail this Document) (see Regulations ¶ 16.4.1.2) Until then this Letter Ballot Review is on hold.

NO GO TO X

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X. Action for This Document

Motion

This Document passed TC Chapter review as balloted and will be forwarded to the ISC A&R SC for procedural review.

This Document passed TC Chapter review with editorial changes and will be forwarded to the ISC A&R SC for procedural review.

X This Document passed TC Chapter review with technical changes and with or without editorial changes and will be forwarded to the ISC A&R SC for procedural review. A Ratification Ballot will be issued to verify the technical changes.

This Document failed TC Chapter review and will be returned to the TF for rework. This Document failed TC Chapter review and work will be discontinued.

Motion by/ 2nd by


Discussion None.

Vote 9 Y-0 N

Final Action X Motion passed Motion failed

Note: If the use of PMPT or copyrighted item is justified by the TC Chapter, LOA or release form must be received before publication can proceed.

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