[sv-bc] Re: [sv-cc] Technical Committees Operating Guidelines - as a Working Group

At 06:17 PM 6/30/2010, Neil Korpusik wrote:
>To all P1800 Technical Committees,
>
>...
>
>- New IEEE participation rules
>
> There are some new rules that have been put in place by the IEEE with
> regards to participation rights. These new rules are being clarified.
> There will be a FAQ forthcoming which will help clarify these new rules.
> The Working Group will review the FAQ and determine what impact it will
> have on the Technical Committees. Until that occurs, we are continuing to
> allow everyone to participate, as we did while we were still a Study Group.

Hi, All -

I talked to Karen Bartelson at DAC about the new IEEE participation
rules (Karen is copied to this email message).

For a comparison of SA memberships:
http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/compare.html

My understanding - Individual membership cannot participate on an
entity standard like P1800

Basic Corporate Membership for consultants would be $1,250 per year.
Unlimited corporate working group attendance as observer only
http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/corp_overview.html

The $1,250 rate probably will knock out the consultants that
participate on the P1800. Even at this rate, consultants would only
have observer status at meetings.

ALTERNATE OPTION -
I asked Karen if consultants that were contractors to Advanced
Corporate Members could participate on the P1800 subcommittees?

Scenario:
A few consultants like myself, Heath Chambers and Stu Sutherland
(when he gets back) could be contractors to Advanced Corporate
Members (with a $0 fee for contracting), and then participate as
consultant-contractors to the Advanced Corporate Members on the subcommittees?

(1) Consultants would attend as contractors to the Corporations
(2) Consultants would have subcommittee votes (we get to vote as we
deem appropriate - we try our best to represent the user base)
(3) Corporations have the right to "fire" contractors at any time if
their voting behavior becomes objectionable.
(4) Corporations would have their own DRs & DRAs for the entity-based
voting (in theory, corporations could designate consultants as their
DR or DRA representative, but that is unlikely).

This might allow myself, Heath, Stu and potentially others to
continue participation as a $0-contractors representing Member
Corporations. Any such participant would have to convince an existing
Advanced Corporate Member that we are worthy to be a $0-contractor
under the member corporation.

This way, corporate members could still recruit experienced technical
talent to help perform the work of the subcommittees.

Karen seemed to think this might be an option, but she was going to
research it more before responding.

This might be a way to keep Cliff, Heath and Stu on the subcommittees.

Regards - Cliff

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