[P1800] FW: [WGCS:] IEEE-SA - P&P Changes for 2007 - Important - Please Read

Hi, all,

We will be discussing these changes in the P1800 meeting on Thursday.
Please review.

Thanks,

K



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From: Dave Ringle [mailto:d.ringle@ieee.org]
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:01 PM
To: STDS-WG-CHAIRS@listserv.ieee.org
Subject: [WGCS:] IEEE-SA - P&P Changes for 2007 - Important - Please
Read

1 January 2007

All,

The current version of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws is available
at:
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/index.html (HTML version)
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sb-bylaws.pdf (PDF version)

The current version of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual is
available at:
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/index.html (HTML version)
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sb-om.pdf (PDF version)

The text of the changes made to these documents (approved July -
December
2006) can be found at:
http://standards.ieee.org/board/pro/2006changes.pdf

Please read through these changes so that you are familiar with the
current P&P.

Change 1 - Notes that the web-based PAR Form now contains instructions
within the web process. Thus, the separate Working Guide is no longer
necessary.

Change 2 - Codifies the L50-S annual financial reporting requirement for
Sponsors.

Change 3 - Updates requirements for balloting of amendments/corrigenda.
Balloters must be given access to the base standard and all approved
amendments/corrigenda for complete information.

Change 4 - Codifies the existing policy regarding the power of the
NesCom Administrator as the sole authority in assigning project numbers.

Change 5 - States that AudCom shall develop baseline P&P and that such
will be used when it conducts its audits. In addition, it states that a
Sponsor must have accepted P&P or P&P that are visibly under development
before that Sponsor will be authorized to conduct ANY standards work.

Change 6 - See Change 2. States that failure to submit the annual
financial report will result in action from the Standards Board. {Also
some clean-up based on direction from IEEE Operations Audit and
Accounting.}

Change 7 - see Change 5. States that the accepted Sponsor P&P posted to
the AudCom web site is the only official version of that Sponsor's P&P.

Change 8 - Disclosure of Affiliation {Operations Manual sections}.

Change 9 - Adds Sponsor responsibility to monitor its committees for
signs of dominance.

Change 10 - Dominance and Disclosure of Affiliation {Bylaws sections}.

Change 11 - States that the Scope and Purpose of the draft document
submitted to RevCom (i.e., the last balloted draft) shall match the
Scope and Purpose stated in the PAR.

Change 12 - See Changes 5 and 7. Clarifies that 'visibly under
development'
is determined by AudCom.

Change 13 - Changes related to Compliance with Laws; Prohibited
Discussion Topics; Discussion of Relative Costs. This change has not yet
been included in the online versions of the IEEE-SA Standards Board
Operations Manual.
This change is due to be implemented, along with Changes 14-15, in May
2007 to allow time for guideline documents to be created.

Change 14 - Re-write of the patent policy {Bylaws sections}. Please note
that this change does not contain mark-ups. It is basically a total
re-write. This change has not yet been included in the online versions
of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws. This change is due to be
implemented, along with Changes 13 and 15, in May 2007 to allow time for
guideline documents to be created. [Note: The IEEE-SA is also awaiting a
response from the DOJ to a Business Review Letter sent in late
November.] The current version of the patent policy {Bylaws} is located
at
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6

Change 15 - Re-write of the patent policy {Operations Manual sections}.
Please note that this change does not contain mark-ups. It is basically
a total re-write. This change has not yet been included in the online
versions of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual. This change
is due to be implemented, along with Changes 13 and 14, in May 2007 to
allow time for guideline documents to be created.  [Note: The IEEE-SA is
also awaiting a response from the DOJ to a Business Review Letter sent
in late November.] The current version of the patent policy {Operations
Manual} is located at
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3

If you have any questions, please contact me. [Please do NOT reply to
all.
Thank you.]

Regards,
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David L. Ringle
Program Manager - Governance, Policy & Procedures IEEE Standards
Activities Department
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ  08854
TEL: +1 732 562 3806
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d.ringle@ieee.org
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