Subject: [vhdl-200x] Working Group Voting Membership Requirements
From: Stephen Bailey (Stephen.Bailey@synopsys.com)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 12:23:27 PST
This email documents the requirements for voting membership in VASG (VHDL 200x
effort). Please note that people can participate in reviewing, commenting and
technical contributions without being voting members of the WG. Thus,
subscription to vhdl-200x and vhdl-200x-* email lists is not impacted by voting
membership. As all outputs of the WG must ultimately be approved by the WG,
Call for Votes (CFV) occur from time-to-time at the WG and functional team
levels. Only voting members can participate in CFVs.
The requirements for voting membership in the VASG (VHDL 200x) working group are
as follows:
1. Membership in DASC. For a membership application, see
http://www.dasc.org/dasc_membership_application.html
The cost is $50 if you are not already an IEEE SA member. If you are an IEEE
member and not an SA member, then $10 of the $50 goes to pay your SA membership.
If you are already an IEEE SA member, then the cost is $40. Also, all should
note that only SA members may vote on IEEE standards ballots (this is how the
IEEE, at least partially, funds standards activities). Another factor to
consider in DASC / SA membership.
If this presents a financial hardship, please contact me (stephen@srbailey.com)
and / or Paul Menchini, DASC chair (mench@mench.com) privately.
2. A voting WG member must participate in any Calls for Vote (CFV) within the
WG. This is a minimal measurement of active participation. A vote to abstain
qualifies as a recorded vote (in case a member does not have adequate time to
properly review the material put to a vote).
If a voting member misses 2 consecutive CFVs, then that member will be removed
from the WG voting membership. This has no impact on subscription to
vhdl-200x@eda.org or any of the functional team email lists. It is possible to
continue to participate, except for WG and team CFVs, without being a voting
member of the WG.
A WG member can request to be reinstated as a voting member after missing two
consecutive CFVs. Although there are no guarantees on reinstatement, the WG has
traditionally been very forgiving as we wish to encourage, not discourage
participation. (In fact, the reason for the voting requirement is to encourage
participation.) The process for reinstatement is to contact the WG chair
(stephen@srbailey.com) and request reinstatement.
As part of the CFV process at both the WG and functional team level, each vote
will be checked against the WG's voting membership roll. Only those votes from
a WG voting member will be officially tallied.
The functional team leaders are delegated the responsibility for monitoring
compliance with the requirements for any team-level CFVs. The WG chair will
monitor compliance for WG-level CFVs. The WG chair will provide the team
leaders with access to the list of DASC members.
If you have any questions related to WG voting membership, please direct them to
me. I hope that all WG participants will see the value in DASC membership (at a
reasonable cost) and will become voting members of the WG.
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Stephen Bailey
Staff Corporate Applications Engineer, VHDL Simulation
Synopsys Inc.
sbailey@synopsys.com
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