[sv-bc] Fw: Clarification of Entity-based participating/voting rules.

Hi, all,

The following email from the Chair of the DASC, our sponsor, indicates that once the WG and sv-* groups start functioning, we will need to limit attendance, and voting rights and privileges, to employees/representatives of SA member entities. Please encourage your entities to become members.

Karen

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 From: owner-stds-dasc@eda.org <owner-stds-dasc@eda.org>
To: stds-dasc@eda.org <stds-dasc@eda.org>
Sent: Tue Mar 02 13:32:24 2010
Subject: Clarification of Entity-based participating/voting riles.

Hi,
 
As most of
you now may know, the IEEE Standards Association (SA) has established a new
two-tiered membership structure. This new structure is outlined here: http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/corp_overview.html. The upshot of this
new policy is that for all Entity-based IEEE WGs (including, of course, all
DASC Entity-based WGs) only representations of Advanced SA member Entities may
make motions, vote and so forth. Representatives from Entities with Basic
SA membership may only attend meetings as an observer, but there is no limit to
the numbers of meetings at which they may hold such an observer status.
Representatives of non-SA member Entities may only attend a single meeting of a
WG as an observer.
 
There was some question whether these rules applied to
only the “highest level” of a particular WG. Could, for
example, a particular Entity-based WG establish a task force that had looser
attendance/voting rules? The answer from the IEEE is
‘no’. Specifically, I was told wrt Entity-based (Aka
“Corporate-based”) WGs: “Corporate membership rules
apply to all WG activities and that includes any subcommittees, task forces,
etc. formed by the WG.”
 
Stan

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