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First, comply with the registration requirements for all IEEE 802 LMSC plenary and interim
sessions previously attended by the individual. An individual may not be granted membership in
any IEEE 802 LMSC group until this requirement is fulfilled.
Second, acquire the participation credit required for group membership as required for an
individual that had never previously attended an IEEE 802 LMSC session.
The interpretation and implementation of the registration policy for IEEE 802 LMSC plenary
sessions and IEEE 802 LMSC hosted interim sessions shall be the responsibility of the Treasurer
and the Executive Secretary. The interpretation and implementation of the registration policy for
interim sessions of IEEE 802 LMSC subgroups not hosted by the IEEE 802 LMSC shall be the
responsibility of the Chair and Treasurer (if any) of the IEEE 802 LMSC subgroup(s) holding the
session.
6. Vote
6.1 Voting guidance
It is expected that IEEE 802 LMSC members will vote as both professionals and as individual
experts, except under the Directed Position provisions, as defined in 6.2, and not as a member of
any affiliate block (organization, alliance, company, consortium, special interest group, etc.). If
substantive evidence is presented to the IEEE 802 LMSC Chair that this provision is violated, the
IEEE 802 LMSC will meet to consider what, if any, action to take on the presented evidence up
to and including suspension of the IEEE 802 LMSC members’ voting rights and/or removal from
office.
6.2 Procedure for establishing a directed position
Members of the IEEE 802 LMSC have a responsibility to act in the best interest of the IEEE 802
LMSC as a whole. Working Group Chairs have a responsibility to represent their Working
Groups on the IEEE 802 LMSC. At times these responsibilities are in conflict with each other.
Decisions of a Working Group may be of such a nature that the Working Group members deem
it necessary to “direct” the Working Group Chair to vote a specific way on IEEE 802 LMSC
motions related to a Working Group decision. When directed, through the process described
below, the Working Group Chair shall vote as mandated by the Working Group resolution for the
specified subject on any formal vote(s) in the IEEE 802 LMSC. It would be anticipated that the
use of a directed (i.e., instructed) vote is an exceptional situation and hence used infrequently,
e.g., critical PAR votes, formation of new Working Groups and PAR Study Groups.
Working Group developed positions are not to be considered as automatic Directed Positions.
After a Working Group motion has been passed that establishes the Working Group’s position, a
separate Directed Position (75% required to pass) motion is required to make that Working
Group position a Directed Position. A Directed Position motion applies only to a specific,
bounded, Working Group issue that is to be brought before the IEEE 802 LMSC. Directed
Position motions may not be combined, nor may any procedure be adopted that diminishes the
extraordinary nature of establishing a Directed Position.
The Working Group Chair, however, has the freedom to express other views in an attempt to
persuade members of the IEEE 802 LMSC to consider them, however, such views shall be
identified as distinct from and not the formal Working Group Directed Position. The Working
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