Dear DASC Members, I have enclosed references to the updated IEEE-SA P&Ps. These changes will have effect on the way we manage our standards development and will be incorporated into the new DASC P&Ps that are currently being revised. Everyone, especially WG chairs, should review these changes especially those relating to the patent policy revisions. If there are specific questions please let me know and we can discuss them and if necessary get clarification from the SA. Regards and happy new year, Victor Berman DASC Chair -----Original Message----- From: Dave Ringle [mailto:d.ringle@ieee.org] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:01 PM To: STDS-WG-CHAIRS@listserv.ieee.org Subject: [WGCS:] IEEE-SA - P&P Changes for 2007 - Important - Please Read 1 January 2007 All, The current version of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws is available at: http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/index.html (HTML version) http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sb-bylaws.pdf (PDF version) The current version of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual is available at: http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/index.html (HTML version) http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sb-om.pdf (PDF version) The text of the changes made to these documents (approved July - December 2006) can be found at: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pro/2006changes.pdf Please read through these changes so that you are familiar with the current P&P. Change 1 - Notes that the web-based PAR Form now contains instructions within the web process. Thus, the separate Working Guide is no longer necessary. Change 2 - Codifies the L50-S annual financial reporting requirement for Sponsors. Change 3 - Updates requirements for balloting of amendments/corrigenda. Balloters must be given access to the base standard and all approved amendments/corrigenda for complete information. Change 4 - Codifies the existing policy regarding the power of the NesCom Administrator as the sole authority in assigning project numbers. Change 5 - States that AudCom shall develop baseline P&P and that such will be used when it conducts its audits. In addition, it states that a Sponsor must have accepted P&P or P&P that are visibly under development before that Sponsor will be authorized to conduct ANY standards work. Change 6 - See Change 2. States that failure to submit the annual financial report will result in action from the Standards Board. {Also some clean-up based on direction from IEEE Operations Audit and Accounting.} Change 7 - see Change 5. States that the accepted Sponsor P&P posted to the AudCom web site is the only official version of that Sponsor's P&P. Change 8 - Disclosure of Affiliation {Operations Manual sections}. Change 9 - Adds Sponsor responsibility to monitor its committees for signs of dominance. Change 10 - Dominance and Disclosure of Affiliation {Bylaws sections}. Change 11 - States that the Scope and Purpose of the draft document submitted to RevCom (i.e., the last balloted draft) shall match the Scope and Purpose stated in the PAR. Change 12 - See Changes 5 and 7. Clarifies that 'visibly under development' is determined by AudCom. Change 13 - Changes related to Compliance with Laws; Prohibited Discussion Topics; Discussion of Relative Costs. This change has not yet been included in the online versions of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual. This change is due to be implemented, along with Changes 14-15, in May 2007 to allow time for guideline documents to be created. Change 14 - Re-write of the patent policy {Bylaws sections}. Please note that this change does not contain mark-ups. It is basically a total re-write. This change has not yet been included in the online versions of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws. This change is due to be implemented, along with Changes 13 and 15, in May 2007 to allow time for guideline documents to be created. [Note: The IEEE-SA is also awaiting a response from the DOJ to a Business Review Letter sent in late November.] The current version of the patent policy {Bylaws} is located at http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 Change 15 - Re-write of the patent policy {Operations Manual sections}. Please note that this change does not contain mark-ups. It is basically a total re-write. This change has not yet been included in the online versions of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual. This change is due to be implemented, along with Changes 13 and 14, in May 2007 to allow time for guideline documents to be created. [Note: The IEEE-SA is also awaiting a response from the DOJ to a Business Review Letter sent in late November.] The current version of the patent policy {Operations Manual} is located at http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3 If you have any questions, please contact me. [Please do NOT reply to all. Thank you.] Regards, **************************************************************** David L. Ringle Program Manager - Governance, Policy & Procedures IEEE Standards Activities Department 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 TEL: +1 732 562 3806 FAX: +1 732 875 0524 d.ringle@ieee.org **************************************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Mon Jan 1 09:52:12 2007
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