Re: [802SEC] Question on Attendance Credit
Mike and Paul,
If there is still doubt whether 802.20 is holding an official
meeting in 10 days then I think something must have gone badly wrong.
Paul Nikolich notified the EC and the 802.20 members that there was
going to be a meeting. People have made travel plans. Now is not the
time to change that decision.
You seem to imply that the EC can declare the meeting official
but Paul cannot. That is not clear to me.
Paul, can you give the EC guidance on if an EC vote on whether
this is an "official" meeting is appropriate? I believe many people
have made travel plans based on your statement that 802.20 would meet. I
believe most people interpreted that to mean that the working group
would have an official meeting, since I cannot think of any other
interpretation.
Regards,
Steve
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[mailto:STDS-802-SEC@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Mike Takefman (tak)
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 7:10 AM
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Subject: [802SEC] Question on Attendance Credit
Dear EC,
In discussions with Arnie and Paul a few questions came up that I think
we need to make some decisions on since it is possible that they will
be brought up at the session. Paul can determine if this is a question
for the unconflicted EC or the entire EC.
1) Is the November 802.20 session duly constituted? According to our
rules,
interim sessions require 30 days notice, not plenaries. The only
catch is
that the notice of the lifting of suspension of 802.20 did not occur
30days
prior to November, although the stated goal of the SASB was to
restart ASAP.
Plenaries are well known and the expectation of people *should* have
been that
this session would occur.
That being said, I think the EC should affirm that this session is
like
any other duly constituted session.
2) Should the EC determine the session is not duly constituted then
I can imagine questions from attendees related to:
a) attendance credit for membership (does this session count)
b) gaining of voting rights (there was a large contingent of people
that
Mr. Upton said would become voting members at this session. If
this
is not considered a duly constituted plenary then they don't get a
chance
for voting rights until March
c) voting at the meeting, if this isn't a duly constituted meeting,
is it
the equivalent of a Study Group meeting, where all attendees vote?
3) Matt Sherman has sent email to the dot20 reflector, stating that they
needed
to get their affiliation statements in by tonight in order to
participate.
Will we allow anyone who attends the meeting to sign a form there? If
so,
do they get to participate fully? I can imagine 2 classes of people:
a) People who have already attended meetings, and should be on the
reflector.
b) People who for some reason are attending for the first time ever
and
therefore would not necessarily be part of the reflector.
If someone can think of other questions that are likely to come up,
please chime in.
Having posed the questions, let me start with my answers to start the
discussion.
1) This is a valid session, the stakeholders of this process should be
ready to
go once the SASB removed the suspension.
2) I believe the normal rules for attendance credit, gaining voting
rights and voting
at the session apply.
Arnie is free of course as chair to ask questions twice. Once to the
membership
and once to the entire room. However, I think that anyone who wishes
to be part of
a straw poll has to have filled out a declaration of affiliation.
This brings us
to point 3
3) Anyone who is a current attendee of dot20 (is a member, or about to
become a member)
and did not send in a form, does not get to vote this session. If
they fill out a form
this session, they can be in straw polls.
Anyone who is a new attendee, or cannot become a member can fill out
a declaration form
and be part of straw polls.
I assume the following motions (or something like it) would be made
"Move to confirm that the 802.20 Plenary Session is duly constituted"
"Move to restrict voting at the 802.20 Plenary Session to 802.20 voting
members who
completely fulfilled the affiliation declaration requirement on time"
cheers,
mike
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Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
Chair IEEE 802.17 Stds WG
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