Re: Review of DASC membership fees

Jim,
> As for the fee raise for individual memberships, people
> have been raising some good issues. DASC-SC is
> not unaware of these issues, since their minutes show
> their own efforts to define what usefulness remains
> in DASC itself. I liked the comment attributed to
> Oz: "DASC is a collection of people of long standing in
> EDA and with expertise in standards development." I'll
> probably vote yes on #1 for basically just that reason:
> Here's a bunch of people who have a lot of experience
> and expertise, and it'd be a good idea to keep them
> working together. I have developed a lot of respect
> for the principals over the years. But clearly we are
> getting diminishing returns out of DASC itself for the
> reasons others have cited.

What is the benefit of joining DASC if it is not to
participate in one of the working groups? Are the members
of 1800 going to join DASC as individual members if they
have no interest in the other working groups? The only
conclusion I can reach is that the individual DASC membership
is for people participating in the non-corporate
based standards groups: VHDL, e, and ALF.

Regards,
Jim
Received on Mon Nov 15 06:59:35 2004