Re: Review of DASC membership fees

I disagree with some of this.

Gabe Moretti wrote:

> Well within the WG things go along as they always have. Engineers that work
> for a company and are aware of the company's market direction will represent
> the will of the company, all others will represent themselves. Once the WG
> is done and the ballot is an entity ballot, each entity can vote NO with
> comments and get the standard changed to its own liking. It can do that
> either because its arguments are compelling or because its employees within
> the WG have been properly instructed, or by paying for more DASC members to
> join the WG.

Engineers that work for a company will have voting and other membership
privileges only if their company decides to pay for entity membership. My
company is not currently an IEEE-SA member, so I have no membership privileges
in P1800, for example.

So it is not true that "within the WG things go along as they always have".

And membership will cost significantly more than in the past, especially for
independents.

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