DASC: result of vote on change to patent provisions in P&Ps

Dear colleagues,

The vote on changing the patent policy provision in the DASC procedures is
now closed and has passed. Please see the attached voting record for
details.

I will forward the revised procedures to our parent committee (IEEE-CS/SAB)
and to IEEE-SA for approval.

Thanks for your participation.

Regards,

Peter Ashenden
DASC Chair

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Dr. Peter J. Ashenden                peter@ashenden.com.au
Ashenden Designs Pty. Ltd.           www.ashenden.com.au
PO Box 640                           VoIP: 0871270078@sip.internode.on.net
Stirling, SA 5152                    Phone (mobile):  +61 414 709 106
Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-stds-dasc@eda.org [mailto:owner-stds-dasc@eda.org] On Behalf Of
Peter Ashenden
Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 17:57
To: stds-dasc@eda.org
Subject: DASC: vote on change to patent provisions in P&Ps


Dear colleagues,

Action required: please read the following...

Earlier this year, the IEEE-SA Standards Board issued instructions to
standards development committees (including DASC) that any variation from
the SA policy on patents in standards is not permitted.  Currently, the DASC
procedures include a more restictive policy than the SA policy.  Given the
SA directive, we need to revise our procedures to conform.  The DASC
Steering Committee discussed this at the June meeting and last week, and
proposed the following amendment to the DASC procedures:

  In the DASC Procedures
(www.dasc.org/procedures/DASC-procedures-adopted.pdf),
  delete all of Clause 6 except the first sentence.  The revised Clause 6
shall
  read:

    6 Patents

    Standards developed by DASC shall conform to the IEEE-SA Standards
Board's
    Bylaws regarding patents.

You can find links to the DASC and IEEE-SA procedures at
www.dasc.org/procedures/procedures.html.

Would DASC members please vote on approval of the amendment.  Please reply
by 5pm US Pacific time, Tuesday 11 October 2005, with your vote selected
from the following:

____ Affirmative

____ Negative with comments: ...

____ Negative with no comment

____ Abstain

The ballot requires approval by two thirds of those voting, and a 50% return
rate. Only votes from current DASC members will count.  (See www.dasc.org
for the current membership list.)

Thanks, and regards,

Peter Ashenden
DASC Chair
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Dr. Peter J. Ashenden                peter@ashenden.com.au
Ashenden Designs Pty. Ltd.           www.ashenden.com.au
PO Box 640                           VoIP: 0871270078@sip.internode.on.net
Stirling, SA 5152                    Phone:  +61 8 8339 7532
Australia                            Mobile: +61 414 70 9106