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[802SEC] FW: IEEE-SA - P&P Changes for 2007 - Important - Please Read



Colleagues:

Many of you received this on the WG chairs reflector, but just in case
some on the EC haven't seen the below announcement on governing document
changes, I'm forwarding the message as an FYI.

--Bob

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Subject: 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,
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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
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