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

Hi Karen.

My personal opinion is that IEEE is not the right organization
to be using corporations to develop standards.

Groups such as EDAC or Accellera can do that. Introducing
corporate "members" makes little sense -- a corporation
is just a name on a bank account, not at all an engineer;
and, in my opinion, not "someone" to be particating as
a member in IEEE activities.

On 03/02/2010 02:19 PM, Karen Pieper wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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
>
>
>

-- 
      John Michael Williams
      Senior Adjunct Faculty
Silicon Valley Technical Institute
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