Re: [802SEC] +++802 EC Motion+++ LMSC request to BoG for improving CAG procedures
I approve.
Jerry Upton
In a message dated 2/19/2004 10:05:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, paul.nikolich@att.net writes:
> Dear EC members,
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> This is an EC email ballot to make a determination on the below EC motion regarding a request to the IEEE SA BoG for improving IEEE SA Corporate Advisory Group procedures.
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> This is an urgent matter, as the IEEE SA BoG is meeting the morning of Feb 27 to discuss the matter and I want to have an EC decision completed before then. I will be present at the BoG meeting.
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> Since this is an urgent matter and the topic has been available for review and comment on the EC reflector since Feb 11 (see http://www.ieee802.org/secmail/msg04887.html for background material), I am setting the duration of the ballot to close the earlier of 9PM EST Feb 25th (6 days) or within 24 hours after every member of the EC has cast a definitive vote (approve, disapprove or abstain).
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> Please direct your responses to the EC reflector with a CC directly to me (p.nikolich@ieee.org).
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> Regards,
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> - Paul Nikolich
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> Moved: Bob Grow, Second: Tony Jeffree
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> The IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards committee (LMSC) requests the IEEE-SA Board of Governors take action to protect the value of IEEE-SA as a standards development organization by requiring proper IEEE-SA, Corporate Advisory Group (CAG) and working group procedures that:
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> 1. allow CAG standards sponsorship for truly new standards activities that are outside the scope of existing working groups;
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> 2. allow CAG standards sponsorship for new standards that are not effectively amendments to existing standards or projects of active working groups;
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> 3. recognize that working groups must make selections between technical alternatives, and prevent the CAG from becoming a mechanism that can be used for undermining the decision making process of working groups by sponsoring competing projects to standards and projects of those working groups;
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> 4. discriminate between disinterest in a proposed standards project and recognize an established working group's position that a proposed standards project is within its area of
> work and that the proposed project should not be approved.