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[802SEC] IEEE-SA Policy and Procedures (P&P) Changes - Important - Please read



Dear EC members,

Please be aware of the below SA P&P changes.

Regards,

--Paul

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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:30 PM
Subject: IEEE-SA Policy and Procedures (P&P) Changes - Important - Please 
read


> 17 January 2008
>
> 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 by SASB in 2007)
> can be found at:
> http://standards.ieee.org/board/pro/2007changes.pdf
>
> Please read through these changes so that you are familiar with the 
> current
> P&P.
>
> Change 1 - Sets minimum ballot group for entity projects at five members.
>
> Change 2 - States that audit fees are determined by the IEEE Operations
> Audit Dept.
>
> Change 3 - States that annual financial reports [via the L50-S Form] are
> the responsibility of the Sponsor. The Sponsor shall ensure submission of
> the reports for itself and all of its subordinate standards developing
> committees.
>
> Change 4 - Allows confidentiality statements to appear on some
> communications with legal counsel.
>
> Change 5 - States that the IEEE-SA Standards Board is not a Sponsor.
>
> Change 6 - Modifications to the appeals process.
>
> Change 7 - Eliminates requirement for entity project chairs to be IEEE
> members.
>
> Change 8 - Adds 'threatened litigation' to be in synch with existing
> procedures
>
> Change 9 - Adds requirement for chairs to seek LoAs from Affiliates
> excluded on Accepted LoAs. {The PatCom Administrator will advise chairs
> when this is necessary.}
>
> Change 10 - States that the IEEE is not responsible for determinations of
> reasonableness related to licensing agreement or to LoAs. Clean-up of how
> LoAs are handled by PatCom Administrator. Updates public notice language.
>
> Change 11 - Further change to public notice text to indicate that users 
> are
> solely responsible for determining their risk of patent infringement.
>
> Change 12 - Updated version of the stabilized standards process. [Note:
> Staff is working on incorporating these changes into necessary system
> changes in myProject.]
>
> Change 13 - Notes the various states of Sponsor P&P that AudCom can
> recommend to the Standards Board.
>
> Change 14 - Requires use of IEEE concentration banking.
>
> Change 15 - Requires that Sponsor ballot comment submission and Sponsor
> responses be handled in a manner compatible with IEEE Ballting Center
> tools. Also includes information related to RevCom submittals.
>
> Change 16 - General clean-up of the language related to the adoption of a
> non-IEEE standard.
>
> Change 17 - Sets the time from which LoAs should be sought/submitted.
>
>
>
> If you have any questions, please contact me. [Please do NOT reply to all
> unless you want all to view your comments. Thank you.]
>
> Regards,
> ****************************************************************
> David L. Ringle
> Manager - IEEE-SA Governance, Policy & Procedures
> IEEE Standards Activities Department
> 445 Hoes Lane
> Piscataway, NJ  08854 USA
> TEL: +1 732 562 3806
> FAX: +1 732 875 0524
> d.ringle@ieee.org
> **************************************************************** 

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