Re: Review of DASC membership fees

Peter and all,
My vote is below. Question 2 below seems to have multiple
different possible understanding. I suggest that it be
re-written to clarify its intent. See my comments following it.

1. That the fee for individual members be $US100 from 2005 onwards.

    ____ Affirmative (comments optional)

    ____ Negative (no comment)

    _X__ Negative (with comments...)

    ____ Abstain

    Comments:
See Wolfgang's comments. I agree with his perspective.

2. That:
   - DASC entity membership be extended to IEEE-SA Corporate members, and
   - entities be allowed DASC membership at the same fee structure used
     for IEEE-SA corporate membership and with a number of DASC individual
     memberships equal to the number of SA individual memberships granted
     to SA corporate members
     (see http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/corporate.html), and
   - the DASC request IEEE-SA to mutually extend membership to DASC entity
     members.

    ____ Affirmative (comments optional)

    ____ Negative (no comment)

    __X__ Negative (with comments...)

    ____ Abstain

Comments:
????
The last sentence of the proposed question confuses me. When you
mutually extend membership, it seems to saying that:
    If you join IEEE-SA as a corporate member, then you are automatically
    a DASC corporate member.
    If you join DASC as a corporate member, they you are automatically
    an IEEE-SA corporate member.

DASC has little choice about corporate based membership. Since
there are corporate based standards groups, either the DASC must
have corporate based support/membership for these groups or
it must drop its interest in being part of the governing of
these groups.

I need some clairification about the question. What I
would like it to be conveying is:
    DASC entity membership fee is set to be the same as the IEEE-SA
    membership fee as specified at:
      http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/corporate.html
    (hence to be a corporate member of IEEE-SA and DASC then the
     total fee to a company is 2X the IEEE-SA fee).

    To be a voting member of a DASC sponsored/co-sponsored corporate
    based standards group, a company must be a DASC corporate member.

Please clarify the question as if it is the later, then I will change
my vote to affirmative.

Best regards,
Jim Lewis
Received on Sun Nov 14 15:20:13 2004